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J Michael Hunter

Actor

Born - 18 April 1950, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Died - 21 June 2016

Round-faced, big-built character actor with a shock of fair hair. Seen in a variety of roles, often as figures of authority. After stage work, he entered films in the late 1970s: Rollercoaster (1977), When Time Ran Out... (1980), Time Walker (1982), Marie (1985), Blue Velvet (1986), The Bedroom Window (1987), Track 29 (1988), Crazy People (1990), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Iron Maze (1991), Waterland (1992), The Dark Half (1993), Fall Time (1995), First Kid (1996), Ambushed (1988), Stonebrook (1999), New Best Friend (2002), the short Samaritan (2006) and the acclaimed 40-minute drama The Fire That Sweeps the Pine (2011), his last. Also a producer/director of documentary films., he died 'after a long illness'.