Hunt Block (full name Huntington Macdonald Block, born February 16, 1954) is an American actor. Block graduated from Harvard University with a

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degree and has enjoyed a successful acting career over many decades.

Career

Block was discovered selling Buick Century automobiles at the Chicago Auto Show. Early on he made numerous TV commercials, short films, and experimental theater pieces. While living in Tribeca in New York City, he performed in Off-Off Broadway and Broadway productions for Arthur Laurents,

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, Robert Smith, Doric Wilson and others. He appeared in William Shakespeare's ''

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'', ''Forever After'', ''A Loss Of Memory'', ''Provicante di Saliva'', '' The Bald Soprano'', ''Make Mine Kafka!'', and others. Block has worked with

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, Peter Medak,

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, Alvin Rakoff, and Phillip Noyce. Block played the roles of U.S. President Howard Lewis in the film '' Salt'', Sebastian Weinberg in ''My Best Day'', Walter Hill in ''Only I...'', the U.S. Olympian Robert Garrett (1875-1961), a young scion of a wealthy

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railroad and financier family in the NBC TV miniseries '' The First Olympics: Athens 1896''. He had starring roles in several other TV movies and pilots and has appeared steadily in lead roles in several dramatic serials, such as ''

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,''Hunt Block in ''TV Guide'' by ''Knots Landing'' Fan, Dec 12, 2021, ''TV Guide''
/ref> and numerous TV soap opera daytime dramas, including ''

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'', ''

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'', '' As the World Turns'', and ''

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''. He has voiced multiple commercial and digital campaigns, performed with the Indonesian poetry forum Yang Mengatakan, in

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nese Shadow plays, and in the Norwegian Arctic Rights Group Vakne Opp's production of ''Ballong''. He is a regular contributor to ''Sweet Dreams'', an audio series of

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Personal life

Block is the son of Huntington T. Block, founder (in 1962) of the oldest and largest managing general underwriter of Fine Art Insurance in the United States, and is the brother of film producer and CEO of

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, Bill Block.

Filmography

Movies

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Block, Hunt 1953 births Living people Harvard University alumni American male television actors American male soap opera actors People from Glen Burnie, Maryland