Writing
Ian McLellan Hunter
Born August 8, 1915
Died March 5, 1991 · aged 75
No biography available.
Known For
Roman Holiday · 1953Roman Holiday
★ 7.91953
MovieRomanceComedy
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.
Mr. District Attorney · 1947Mr. District Attorney
★ 6.51947
MovieCrime
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
Second Chorus · 1941Second Chorus
★ 5.81941
MovieComedyRomance
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
A Dream of Kings · 1969A Dream of Kings
★ 6.01969
MovieDrama
A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air of his ancestors, in an attempt to save the boy's life. However, money is a problem.
The Outside Man · 1972The Outside Man
★ 6.21972
MovieCrimeThriller
A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.
Slightly Dangerous · 1943Slightly Dangerous
★ 6.01943
MovieComedyRomance
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Fisherman's Wharf · 1939Fisherman's Wharf
★ 8.01939
MovieAdventureDrama
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away
Captain Sindbad · 1963Captain Sindbad
★ 4.91963
MovieFantasyAdventure
After completing his voyages Sindbad the Sailor and his hearty crew have come home to find a palace coup d'etat has occurred and his home city is being run by a brutal dictator played by Pedro Armendariz. He's got designs on the beautiful young princess, Heidi Bruhl both lustful and political.
Movies
Roman Holiday · 1953Roman Holiday
★ 7.91953
MovieRomanceComedy
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.
Mr. District Attorney · 1947Mr. District Attorney
★ 6.51947
MovieCrime
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
Second Chorus · 1941Second Chorus
★ 5.81941
MovieComedyRomance
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
A Dream of Kings · 1969A Dream of Kings
★ 6.01969
MovieDrama
A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air of his ancestors, in an attempt to save the boy's life. However, money is a problem.
The Outside Man · 1972The Outside Man
★ 6.21972
MovieCrimeThriller
A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.
Slightly Dangerous · 1943Slightly Dangerous
★ 6.01943
MovieComedyRomance
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Fisherman's Wharf · 1939Fisherman's Wharf
★ 8.01939
MovieAdventureDrama
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away
Captain Sindbad · 1963Captain Sindbad
★ 4.91963
MovieFantasyAdventure
After completing his voyages Sindbad the Sailor and his hearty crew have come home to find a palace coup d'etat has occurred and his home city is being run by a brutal dictator played by Pedro Armendariz. He's got designs on the beautiful young princess, Heidi Bruhl both lustful and political.
The Amazing Mr. X · 1948The Amazing Mr. X
★ 6.21948
MovieThrillerHorror
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
Your Witness · 1950Your Witness
★ 6.21950
MovieDramaCrime
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
Mastermind · 1976Mastermind
★ 4.81976
MovieComedyThriller
Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Chatze(sp?) played by Felix Silas. The inspector has delusions that he is a great Samurai warrior and the movie flashes back and forth between present day and ancient times.
A Woman of Distinction · 1950A Woman of Distinction
★ 7.01950
MovieComedy
Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect; matters get more and more involved.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · 1968The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
★ 6.81968
MovieThrillerTV Movie
In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the hidden, dark side of man, who, in the process of his experiment, releases a murderer from within himself.
Escape to Paradise · 1939Escape to Paradise
★ 5.41939
MovieComedyRomance
An American tourist in South America finds love and unexpected trouble.
Young Ideas · 1943Young Ideas
★ 5.31943
MovieComedy
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
Meet Dr. Christian · 1939Meet Dr. Christian
★ 7.01939
MovieComedyDrama
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
You Can't Go Home Again · 1979You Can't Go Home Again
★ 3.01979
MovieDramaTV Movie
An adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's literary classic, telling of the struggles of a young writer determined to be a success in New York's literary world of the 1920s, his married lover, and the brilliant editor who sees him as a blossoming genius. The story parallels the life of Wolfe himself and his affair with stage designer Aline Bernstein.
Arkansas Judge · 1941Arkansas Judge
★ 8.01941
MovieActionRomance
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.
A Day of My Life · 1961A Day of My Life
★ 8.01961
MovieMusicRomance
An unexpected love affair quickly blossoms between aspiring down-on-his-luck reporter Salah (Abdel Halim Hafez) and the subject of his first newspaper scoop, a pretty young heiress (Zubaida Tharwat)who's soon to be forced into an arranged marriage.
Footlight Fever · 1941Footlight Fever
★ 7.01941
MovieComedy
Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles in "Curtain Call" as theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey 'Jeff' Crandall. This time they try to con a millionairess into funding their latest show by posing as old friends of her lost love.
The Courageous Dr. Christian · 1940The Courageous Dr. Christian
★ 6.21940
MovieDrama
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
TV Shows
The Defenders · 1961The Defenders
★ 6.31961
SeriesDrama
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
The Adams Chronicles · 1976The Adams Chronicles
★ 7.41976
SeriesDrama
Chronicles the story of the Adams political family over a 150-year span, including John Adams (drafter and signer of the Declaration, accomplished diplomat, and the 2nd President of the U.S.), his wife Abigail Adams, his son John Quincy Adams (acclaimed Secretary of State, the 6th President, and prominent abolitionist Congressman), grandson Charles Francis Adams, Congressman and Ambassador to Great Britain during the Civil War, and much-heralded members of the fourth generation Henry Brooks Adams, the historian and author of the novel Democracy, and Charles Francis Adams II, the industrialist.