Ross Hunter

Ross Hunter (May 6, 1926 – March 10, 1996) was an American film and television producer and actor. Hunter is best known for producing light comedies such as Pillow Talk (1959), and the glamorous melodramas Magnificent Obsession (1954), Imitation of Life (1959), and Back Street (1961).

Career

Hunter was born Martin Terry Fuss in Cleveland, Ohio on May 6, 1926. He was of Austrian-Jewish and German Jewish descent. Hunter attended Glenville High School where he later taught English and drama (he also taught these subjects at Rawlings High School). During World War II, he worked in United States Army Intelligence. After his time in the Army, he returned to his job as a drama teacher. He eventually moved to Los Angeles after his students sent his photo to Paramount Pictures. Paramount Pictures passed on signing him to a contract and he subsequently signed with Columbia Pictures. It was at Columbia that a casting agent changed his name from "Martin Fuss" to "Ross Hunter".

During the 1930s, Hunter acted in a number of B-movie musicals. When his acting career stalled, he returned to teaching drama at the Ben Bard Dramatic School and also taught speech therapy. Hunter missed working in films and decided to return to the business and focus on film production. During the late 1940s, Hunter enrolled at the Motion Picture Center Studio where he was trained in film production. In 1951, Universal-International hired him as a producer for the film Flame of Araby, starring Jeff Chandler and Maureen O'Hara. During production, Hunter cut $172,000 from the film's budget which pleased Universal executives who raised his salary.

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer who became one of the pivotal and most influential figures in jazz music. His career spanned from the 1920s to the 1960s, covering many different eras of jazz.

Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" trumpet and cornet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance. With his instantly recognizable gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also skilled at scat singing.

Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general. Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over", whose skin color was secondary to his music in an America that was extremely racially divided. He rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African-Americans, but took a well-publicized stand for desegregation during the Little Rock Crisis. His artistry and personality allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society which were highly restricted for black men of his era.

Hunter, Ross Filmography

Play in Full Screen The 68th Annual Academy Awards

1996, role: actor , character name: Himself - Memorial Tribute
Play in Full Screen Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey

1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
Play in Full Screen The Society of Singers Presents: A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald

1989, role: actor , character name: Himself
Play in Full Screen The Best Place to Be

1979, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Suddenly, Love

1978, role: producer
Play in Full Screen A Family Upside Down

1978, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers

1976, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Mitzi and a Hundred Guys

1975, role: actor , character name: Himself
Play in Full Screen The Lives of Jenny Dolan

1975, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Lost Horizon

1973, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Airport

1970, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Rosie!

1967, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Thoroughly Modern Millie

1967, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Madame X

1966, role: producer
Play in Full Screen The Pad and How to Use It

1966, role: producer
Play in Full Screen The Art of Love

1965, role: producer
Play in Full Screen I'd Rather Be Rich

1964, role: producer
Play in Full Screen The Chalk Garden

1964, role: producer
Play in Full Screen The Thrill of It All

1963, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Tammy and the Doctor

1963, role: producer
Play in Full Screen If a Man Answers

1962, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Tammy Tell Me True

1961, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Back Street

1961, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Flower Drum Song

1961, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Portrait in Black

1960, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Midnight Lace

1960, role: producer
Play in Full Screen A Stranger in My Arms

1959, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Imitation of Life

1959, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Pillow Talk

1959, role: producer
Play in Full Screen The Restless Years

1958, role: producer
Play in Full Screen This Happy Feeling

1958, role: producer
Play in Full Screen My Man Godfrey

1957, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Tammy and the Bachelor

1957, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Interlude

1957, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Battle Hymn

1957, role: producer
Play in Full Screen There's Always Tomorrow

1956, role: actor , character name: Cameo Appearance
Play in Full Screen There's Always Tomorrow

1956, role: producer
Play in Full Screen All That Heaven Allows

1955, role: producer
Play in Full Screen The Spoilers

1955, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Captain Lightfoot

1955, role: producer
Play in Full Screen One Desire

1955, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Taza, Son of Cochise

1954, role: producer
Play in Full Screen The Yellow Mountain

1954, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Magnificent Obsession

1954, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Naked Alibi

1954, role: producer
Play in Full Screen All I Desire

1953, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Take Me to Town

1953, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Tumbleweed

1953, role: producer
Play in Full Screen The Duel at Silver Creek

1952, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Son of Ali Baba

1952, role: producer

Hunter, Ross Filmography

Play in Full Screen The Calligrapher

2004, role: actor , character name: Shop Customer

Hunter, Ross Filmography

Play in Full Screen Sonicsgate

2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Chair of House Finance Committee in Wash. State Legislature

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An evening with Carley Stenson at the Delfont Room,Prince of Wales Theatre, London

published: 02 Apr 2012

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Ross Hunter (We Will Rock you) singing 'You know Better Than I' at the American Writers Dr...

published: 29 Jun 2011

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Police ID Dead Dallas Shooting Suspect As Army Vet Micah Xavier Johnson

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Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, a U.S. Army veteran, has been identified as a dead suspect who launched a deadly sniper attack during an anti-police brutality march in Dallas Thursday night, Raw Story reported Friday.Johnson was killed after a robotic explosive device cornered him in a parking garage at El Centro College after police negotiated with him for several hours ... We’ve got other possible suspects that we’re interviewing....

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A Dallas police officer covers his face as he stands with others outside the emergency room at Baylor University Medical Center, Friday, July 8, 2016, in Dallas. Snipers opened fire on police officers in the heart of Dallas on Thursday night, killing some of the officers.

Suspected sniper dies from self-inflicted wound after standoff with Dallas police; five officers killed in attacks

Edit Fox News 08 Jul 2016

A suspected sniper who was in a standoff with Dallas Police early Friday reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound hours after five officers were killed and several others were wounded in an attack targeting law enforcement officers during a protest march ... ....

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter look on as Polish President Andrzej Duda makes remarks on July 8, 2016, at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, during a joint statement with President Obama following a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the NATO Summit.

NATO leaders meet to deal with threats from Russia, south

Edit Yahoo Daily News 08 Jul 2016

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Leaders of the NATO military alliance gathered Friday to order ambitious actions against a daunting array of dangers to the security of their nations and citizenry, including a rearmed and increasingly unfriendly Russia to Europe's east and violent Islamic extremism to the south ... President Barack Obama and other heads of state and government. After arriving in Warsaw, Obama announced the U.S ... ___ ... ....

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A MQ-9 Reaper flies above Creech AFB in Nevada during a local training mission.

Trolley and Footbridge Dilemmas Reveal Why Obama Should Ban Drone Warfare

Edit WorldNews.com 08 Jul 2016

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingThey say the Devil never sleeps. Evidently, neither does the Obama administration’s moral ambiguity over the use of drones ... Adding other regions and nations where Obama used drone strikes surely challenges his figures.What’s more, critics claim targeted strikes often create many more militants than they kill ... In fact, it looks like a virtual video game ... Dallas Darling (darling@wn.com)....

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The Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) airborne experiment will sample the atmosphere around the world on its 26-day journey, including a stop in at Kona, Hawaii, as it traverses the Pacific Ocean.

Here's where outer space actually begins

Edit Business Insider 08 Jul 2016

All of humanity (excluding a few astronauts) lives on a little spinning marble hurtling through the almost uninterrupted void of cosmic emptiness, protected by the warm, comforting envelope of our atmosphere. And where does that atmosphere end? ... We do have some general boundaries though. Above Earth's surface, our atmosphere is divided into five layers, the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere ... RANKED ... ....

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Scot completes explorer’s ‘grand slam’ on coldest mountain

Edit Scotsman 08 Jul 2016

Newall Hunter, from Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, battled thick snow and bad weather, as temperatures plunged to -40C for his final climb to the summit of Denali in Alaska on 24 June. Newhall Hunter at the South Pole ... Newall Hunter ... Mr Hunter has become the first Scot and the 14th person in the world to acheive this feat, which was the culmination of more than 13 years of climbing and skiing to the most remote corners of the world....

How ‘Captain Fantastic’ Director Matt Ross Nearly No-Showed for His Cannes Award (Exclusive Video)

Edit The Wrap 08 Jul 2016

“Captain Fantastic” writer and director Matt Ross wasn’t even in Cannes when he got a call saying that he was being considered for an award at the iconic film festival. “Once a screening happens, everyone goes home,” Ross told TheWrap in a recent interview ... “We had one of those crazy, like, out-of-a-bad-romantic-comedy experiences,” Ross said....

Hundreds march in Philly to protest police shootings

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 08 Jul 2016

Pastor Barbera Ross shook her head ... Ross, who represented Wesley Chapel A.M.E Church in Edwardsville, ... Ross shook her fist....

Racing: Effort brings solid form for I Try

Edit Otago Daily Times 08 Jul 2016

Hamish Hunter reckons there was no more appropriate horse than I Try to bring up his 500th training win at Forbury Park last month ... "The name gave us a clue of what was going on,'' Hunter said of his June 23 win with the 4yr-old son of Mach Three ... A draw of barrier 3 should at least allow Hunter to place the 3yr-old colt in the first half of the field....

Rhonda Ross follows her supreme destiny

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 08 Jul 2016

Rhonda Ross got her first taste of music while her mom, Diana ... Does the stage feel like your living room, or do you get nervous before going out? Are you playing mostly originals or covers? If I can bring Rhonda Ross’ spirit to any situation or any piece of music, it is mine....

Hunter safety internet-completion courses offered in July (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jul 2016

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is offering free hunter safety internet-completion courses in two counties in July ... Anyone born on or after June 1, 1975, must pass an approved hunter safety course and have a hunting license to hunt alone (unsupervised). The FWC course satisfies hunter-safety training requirements for all other states and Canadian provinces....

Ross achieves 500th win as Americans join Brazilians, Dutch & Germans in Gstaad golden chase (CEV - European Volleyball Confederation)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jul 2016

Ross achieves 500th win as Americans join Brazilians, Dutch & Germans in Gstaad golden chase ... The second-seeded Ross and Walsh Jennings will play third-seeded Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst of Germany in Saturday's second semi-final after seventh-seeded Madelein Meppelink and Marleen van Iersel of The Netherlands challenge top-seeded and defending Gstaad Major champions Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca of Brazil....

Alien UFO Traffic Over Nellis Air Force Base And Area 51 Captured On Camera, According ...

Edit Inquisitr 08 Jul 2016

An alien hunter claims to have video evidence of a constant flow of alien UFO traffic over the Las Vegas Valley area, allegedly originating from the Nellis Air Force Base and the Area 51 top-secret military base in the Nevada desert. UFO hunter Steven Barone ... The UFOs, according to alien hunters, were recovered from crash sites, such as Roswell....

Should Women Register for the Draft?

Edit The Atlantic 08 Jul 2016

As Duncan Hunter, a Republican representative from California, said during an Armed Services Committee hearing in April. ... Hunter is getting at something that runs culturally deep ... Hunter’s quote comes from his ill-conceived attempt to prove that America couldn’t support drafting women ... Hunter himself proposed it to the House Armed Services Committee—as a bluff, sure that his opponents were all talk....

Kill a trophy buck? You may have to leave it out of state

Edit The Times Picayune 08 Jul 2016

As a result, many Bayou State hunters head out of state in the fall and winter to harvest meat for their freezers and hopefully get something that will go on the wall ... At Thursday's meeting of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission, Johnathan Bordelon presented to the regulatory board a proposal that would make it illegal for hunters to transport certain deer parts into Louisiana....

Big Game Grants Program Awards $1.1 Million for Wildlife (California Department of Fish and Wildlife)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jul 2016

Hunters' Dollars to Fund Big Game Conservation and Management Projects ... The Big Game Grant Program (BGGP), which allocates funds generated by big-game hunters through the purchase of tags for sheep, bear, deer, pronghorn antelope and wild pig, identified 15 proposals for projects that will benefit big-game populations and the habitats upon which they depend....

6 Jul 2016 11:19 AM - Let it snow (Upper Hunter Shire Council)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jul 2016

(Source. Upper Hunter Shire Council). Want to see snow safely? Come experience the snow machine next Saturday 9 July 2016, at the Christmas in July Scone Twilight Markets ... There will also be the launch of a new bike hire facility at the Scone VIC by Upper Hunter Shire Mayor Wayne Bedggood at 4pm ... Upper Hunter Shire Council published this content on 09 July 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein....

Movie review: 'Captain Fantastic'

Edit North Jersey 08 Jul 2016

Captain Fantastic” is the second feature from writer-director Matt Ross (his first was the affair drama “28 Rooms”), who is currently best known for his acting. In addition to over two decades in the movies, Ross plays the tech titan Gavin Belson on HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” I imagine a film of the caliber of ......

Ross Hunter

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Bob Ross - Hunter's Haven (Season 8 Episode 5)

What's My Line? - Louis Armstrong; Ross Hunter [panel] (Mar 22, 1964)

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Rock Hudson and other stars attending Ross Hunter's party in 1964.

Ross Hunter - After show hippodrome London

Livin' On A Prayer sung by Ross Hunter 1st APRIL 2012

Ross Hunter - Dress Circle Benefit

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Ross Hunter - Take A Chance On Me

'Ross Hunter' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

The Terror of Bar X (1927)

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Bob Ross - Hunter's Haven (Season 8 Episode 5)

What's My Line? - Louis Armstrong; Ross Hunter [panel] (Mar 22, 1964)

High enough. ross hunter sabrina aloueche

Rock Hudson and other stars attending Ross Hunter's party in 1964.

Ross Hunter - After show hippodrome London

Livin' On A Prayer sung by Ross Hunter 1st APRIL 2012

Ross Hunter - Dress Circle Benefit

Memphis Lives in Me - Ross Hunter

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Ross Hunter - Take A Chance On Me

Bob Ross - Hunter's Haven (Season 8 Episode 5)

What's My Line? - Louis Armstrong; Ross Hunter [panel] (Mar 22, 1964)

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Rock Hudson and other stars attending Ross Hunter's party in 1964.

Ross Hunter - After show hippodrome London

Livin' On A Prayer sung by Ross Hunter 1st APRIL 2012

Ross Hunter - Dress Circle Benefit

Memphis Lives in Me - Ross Hunter

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Ross Hunter - Take A Chance On Me

Bob Ross - Winter Hideaway (Season 8 Episode 7)

Interview with Ross Hunter for 2009 King County Executive

Representative Ross Hunter - "Just Fix It": Education Funding (Presentation at ESD 113, Tumwater)

Bob Ross - Lonely Retreat (Season 8 Episode 12)

Guatemala 2015 - Mike, Katie, Hunter, Ross

Bob Ross - Misty Rolling Hills (Season 8 Episode 1)

Bob Ross - Northern Lights (Season 8 Episode 13)

Bob Ross - Waterside Way (Season 8 Episode 4)

Bob Ross - Winter Hideaway (Season 8 Episode 7)

Interview with Ross Hunter for 2009 King County Executive

Representative Ross Hunter - "Just Fix It": Education Funding (Presentation at ESD 113, Tumwater)

Bob Ross - Lonely Retreat (Season 8 Episode 12)

Guatemala 2015 - Mike, Katie, Hunter, Ross

Bob Ross - Misty Rolling Hills (Season 8 Episode 1)

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What's My Line? - Louis Armstrong; Ross Hunter [panel] (Mar 22, 1964)

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Rock Hudson and other stars attending Ross Hunter's party in 1964.

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Ross Hunter - Take A Chance On Me

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Bob Ross - Lonely Retreat (Season 8 Episode 12)

Guatemala 2015 - Mike, Katie, Hunter, Ross

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