Jay Hunt (director)

Jay Hunt
Lobby card from Lightnin' (1925) with Edythe Chapman and Jay Hunt
Born	(1855-08-04)August 4, 1855 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died	November 18, 1932(1932-11-18) (aged 77) Los Angeles, California, USA
Years active	1911-1931

Jay Hunt (August 4, 1855 – November 18, 1932) was an American film director and actor. He directed 68 films between 1911 and 1919. He continued his career as an actor until 1931. The White Squaw, a 1920 film directed by Hunt, was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Selected filmography

• Camille, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas
• Star of the North (1914)
• The Man Who Went Out (1915}
• Civilization (1916)
• The Black Sheep of the Family (1916)
• The Promise (1917)
• My Lady Robin Hood (1919) - directed
• Yankee Speed (1924)
• Lightnin' (1925)
• Counsel for the Defense (1925)
• The Gentle Cyclone (1926)
• A Man Four-Square (1926)
• Men of the Night (1926)
• 3 Bad Men (1926)
• The Golden Web (1926)
• The Harvester (1927)
• The Overland Stage (1927)
• Captain Salvation (1927)
• The Cheyenne Cyclone (1931)

External links

• Jay Hunt at IMDb
• Jay Hunt at the Internet Broadway Database