Peter R. Hunt

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Peter R. Hunt (born March 11, 1925 in London - died August 14, 2002) was a famed and innovative English film editor unafraid to challenge conventional wisdom. He created or at least greatly enhanced much of the exciting action in the early James Bond films with his innovative editing style. He has performed various other roles on movie sets having begun in the industry as "Clapper-boy" and ending as a respected and beloved director.

He became justly famous for his novel techniques using quick cutting, allowing camera swings during action and inserts interleaving other elements while working as editor on the first three Bonds.^[1]^[2]

Wanting to direct from the time he was a boy, he then acted as second unit or action unit director until his directorial debut, the sixth James Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Hunt also worked with Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli on the 1963 Bob Hope film Call Me Bwana, and with Saltzman and a few other Bond veterans on the non-Eon thriller The IPCRESS File. Call Me Bwana is the only film produced by the James Bond production company EON Productions that is not a Bond film.

Hunt also directed some episodes of the 1971 British television series, The Persuaders!, which starred future James Bond Roger Moore, and Tony Curtis.

1 Hunt Filmography
- 1.1 James Bond series
- 1.2 Other films as director
2 References and footnotes
3 External links

Hunt Filmography

Stranger From Venus (1954) debut - editor
Ferry to Hong Kong (1959) - editor
Sink the Bismarck (1960) - editor
The Greengage Summer (1961) - editor
H.M.S. Defiant (1962) - editor
Call Me Bwana (1963) - editor
The Ipcress File (1965) - editor

James Bond series

Dr. No (1962) — Film editor
From Russia with Love (1963) — Film editor
Goldfinger (1964) — Film editor
Thunderball (1965) — Film editor
You Only Live Twice (1967) — Second unit director, supervising editor
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) — Director

Other films as director

Gold (1974)
Shout at the Devil (1976)
Death Hunt (1981)
Wild Geese II (1985)
Assassination (1987)

References and footnotes

^ Peter Hunt. (2000). Inside Dr. No [DVD]. MGM Home Entertainment Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-08-04.
^ Peter Hunt, Norman Wanstall. (2000). Inside From Russia with Love [DVD]. MGM Home Entertainment Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-08-04.

External links

Peter R. Hunt at the Internet Movie Database

Preceded by Lewis Gilbert 1967	James Bond film director 1969	Succeeded by Guy Hamilton 1971-1974

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James Bond movies crew

Official films
(EON Productions)

Directors	Terence Young · Guy Hamilton · Lewis Gilbert · Peter R. Hunt · John Glen · Martin Campbell · Roger Spottiswoode · Michael Apted · Lee Tamahori · Marc Forster

Producers	Harry Saltzman · Albert R. Broccoli · Michael G. Wilson · Barbara Broccoli

Title sequence designers	Maurice Binder · Robert Brownjohn · Daniel Kleinman

Others	Ken Adam · Bob Simmons · Syd Cain · John Stears · Peter Lamont · Vic Armstrong · Chris Corbould

Non-EON films

Directors	William H. Brown, Jr. · Ken Hughes · John Huston · Joseph McGrath · Robert Parrish · Val Guest · Irvin Kershner

Producers	Bretaigne Windhurst · Charles K. Feldman · Jerry Bresler · John Dark · Kevin McClory · Michael Dryhurst · Jack Schwartzman