Hunt Block


Hunt Block is an American actor. Block graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Career

Block's first big break was selling Buick Century automobiles at the Chicago Auto Show. He made numerous TV commercials, short films, and experimental theater pieces. He has appeared on stages from Off-Off to Broadway in As You Like It, Forever After, A Loss Of Memory, Provicante di Saliva, Bald Soprano, Make Mine Kafka!, and others. Has worked in film for directors including Arthur Hiller, Peter Medak, Lee Katzin, Alvin Rakoff, and Phillip Noyce. U.S. President Howard Lewis in the film Salt, Sebastian Weinberg in My Best Day, Walter Hill in Only I..., and more.
Block portrayed U.S. Olympian Robert Garrett, a young real-life scion of a wealthy Baltimore railroad and financier family in the NBC TV miniseries The First Olympics: Athens 1896, about the beginnings of the Olympic movement, and the American team's trip to Athens, Greece, broadcast in America in May 1984. Block had as well as starring roles in several other TV movies and pilots. He has appeared steadily in lead roles in several dramatic serials, such as Knots Landing, and numerous TV soap opera daytime dramas: Guiding Light, All My Children, As the World Turns, and One Life to Live. He has voiced multiple commercial and digital campaigns, performed with the Indonesian poetry forum Yang Mengatakan, the Balinese Shadow Theatre, and the Norwegian Arctic Rights Group Vakne Opp's aerial production of "Ballong", and is a regular contributor to Sweet Dreams, an audio series of bedtime stories.

Filmography

Movies

YearTitleRoleNotes
1981Waitress!BillCredited as David Hunt
1984The Lonely GuyLouise's Date - in Bar
2010SaltU.S. President Lewis
2012My Best DaySebastian
2012YoungMiddle Aged ManShort
2015Only I...Walter Hill

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1983Summer GirlPeter MitchellTV Movie
1984Hill Street BluesTony Heedlock1 Episode: Lucky Ducks
1984'Robert Garrett
1985Secret WeaponsJack SpauldingTV Movie
1985OtherworldCaptain Valdor1 Episode, Princess Metra
1985-87Knots LandingPeter Hollister53 Episodes
1988The EqualizerSteiner1 Episode: Video Games
1988'Joseph SternTV Movie
1988Some Kinda WomanElliotTV Movie
1988She Was Marked for MurderEric ChandlerTV Movie
1989-92Murder, She WroteDr. Jonas Beckwith / Reuben Stoltz / Father Donald Barnes3 Episodes: Programmed for Murder, Murder, Plain and Simple, Seal of the Confessional
1990Project: TinmanThe ManTV Movie
1991Bloodlines: Murder in the FamilyTV Movie
1993BaywatchSimon1 Episode: Sky Rider
1997-2000Guiding LightBen Warren
2000All My ChildrenGuy Donohue
2000-05As the World TurnsCraig Montgomery-
2007-08One Life to LiveLee Ramsey-
2011SuitsRival Attorney1 Episode: Pilot