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Alan Leonard Hunt (7 February 1943 – 14 March 2007) was a British actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.
Alan Leonard Hunt was born in Battersea, London in 1943; he was the nephew of actress Martita Hunt. His father was killed in the Second World War when Hunt was two years old, and he was brought up by his mother Doris and stepfather. At the age of 15, he joined the Merchant Navy. After six years, he jumped ship in New Zealand and worked in a car plant for a year before he was caught and served three months in a military prison. Hunt was then deported back to Britain and while taking a BBC design course he held a variety of jobs, including stagehand, road digger, butcher's assistant and door-to-door salesman. Having had an interest in acting since his early years, he subsequently trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Following that, Hunt did rep across the United Kingdom and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre in the early 1970s. Among the many stage productions he appeared in were Twelfth Night, Oh! What a Lovely War and West Side Story.
Worlds do divide, split and part
Accused are those who led
Revolt, malice, disturbing scenes
Weak individuals pulling strings
Nailed to ground, growth denied
Forced to feed on serpents pray
Vail dominion dethroned by rage
Poetic clowns dissect world - control
Frenzied machine confusion proliferate
Dissolved fractions of consciousness
Constrained minds a pray of ease
Blazon, divulge, make it known
To the anemic, ashen, the mass of gray
Rise, resist
Growth, denied
Worlds divide
Growth, denied
Revolt, malice, disturbing scenes
Weak individuals pulling strings
Nailed to ground, growth denied
Forced to feed on serpents pray
Frenzied machine confusion proliferate