Ross Hunter

For the English cricketer, see Ross Hunter (cricketer).

Ross Hunter (6 May 1920 – 10 March 1996) was a Hollywood film producer.

Biography

Hunter was born in Cleveland, Ohio as Martin Fuss. After serving in Army intelligence during World War II, he signed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures and acted in a number of B-movie musicals. Success followed when he became a film producer attaining a staff producer post at Universal-International in 1953 on the strength of his previous credits as a theatrical producer and director. A gay man, Hunter was known for producing what were considered 'light' films starring actresses including Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds (the Tammy films) and (later) Julie Andrews. He was also known for producing Douglas Sirk melodramas such as Imitation of Life with Lana Turner and several with Rock Hudson.

In 1970 he had a major box office hit with Airport. After the 1973 version of Lost Horizon flopped, he worked for Paramount Pictures on a string of television movies.

He died in Los Angeles, California in 1996.

Quote

• "The way life looks in my pictures is how I want life to be. I don't want to hold a mirror up to life as it is".

Selected filmography

• Naked Alibi (1954) (producer)
• Magnificent Obsession (1954) (producer)
• Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) (producer)
• All That Heaven Allows (1955) (producer)
• Captain Lightfoot (1955) (producer)
• Battle Hymn (1957) (producer)
• My Man Godfrey (1957) (producer)
• Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) (producer)
• This Happy Feeling (1958) (producer)
• The Restless Years (1958) (producer)
• Imitation of Life (1959) (producer)
• Pillow Talk (1959) (producer)
• Midnight Lace (1960) (producer)
• Portrait in Black (1960) (producer)
• Back Street (1961) (producer)
• Tammy Tell Me True (1961)
• Flower Drum Song (1961) (producer)
• If a Man Answers (1962) (producer)
• Tammy and the Doctor (1963)(producer)
• The Thrill of It All (1963) (producer)
• The Chalk Garden (1964) (producer)
• I'd Rather Be Rich (1964)(producer)
• The Art of Love (1965)(producer)
• Madame X (1966) (producer)
• Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) (producer)
• Rosie! (producer)
• Airport (1970) (producer)
• Lost Horizon (1973) (producer)

External links

• Ross Hunter at the Internet Movie Database
• Ross Hunter at Find a Grave