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It was an early star role for Jeffrey Hunter, who was the only American in the cast. The lead character was changed to Canadian to accommodate his accent. [3] British actors' union Equity opposed the casting of an American in a British film. [4] The role of Hunter's mother was originally to have been played by Celia Johnson. [5]
Although financed by Fox, it was essentially a British film, with British talent — Hunter was cast as a Canadian to explain his accent (his casting led to some difficulties with British film unions). [8] Sailor of the King was a minor success, as was a Western Hunter made with Mitzi Gaynor, Three Young Texans (1954).
Sailor of the King (1953) Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller: 2 hours 41 12/01/1962 Night People (1954) Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Buddy Ebsen: 2 hours 42 12/08/1962 No Down Payment (1957) Joanne Woodward, Tony Randall, Jeffrey Hunter: 2 hours, 5 minutes 43 12/15/1962 Désirée (1954) Marlon Brando, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie
[24] [25] Ultimately, on April 21, 1960, Jeffrey Hunter was cast as Jesus. The idea to cast Hunter came from John Ford, who suggested him to Nicholas Ray after directing Hunter in The Searchers (1956). [26] Ray was familiar with Hunter, having directed him in The True Story of Jesse James (1957). Bronston agreed mainly because of Hunter's ...
Jeffrey Hunter as 1st Lt. Tom Cantrell, 9th Cavalry (counsel for the defense). Hunter's role in Sergeant Rutledge was the last of his three roles in films directed by Ford. He was previously cast in The Searchers and The Last Hurrah. Constance Towers as Mary Beecher. Towers had also been cast in Ford's previous film, The Horse Soldiers.
Other noteworthy film credits included roles in Cast a Long Shadow (1959), King Rat (1965), Planet of the Apes (1968), Finian's Rainbow (1968) and Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973). In 1974, he played U.S. Senator Richard B. Russell Jr. of Georgia in the TV movie The Missiles of October, a dramatization of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. [9]
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, and Jeffrey Hunter. It was the final film for Tashlin, who died in 1972.
Gold for the Caesars (Italian: Oro per i Cesari) is a 1963 peplum film starring Jeffrey Hunter and Mylène Demongeot.Originally planned as an American production, the film later became an Italian-French international co-production after the poor box office return of King of Kings.