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Russell Hunter (Russell Ellis) was born on 18 February, 1925 in Glasgow, Scotland, is a Scottish actor. Discover Russell Hunter's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

Popular As Russell Ellis
Occupation Actor
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 18 February 1925
Birthday 18 February
Birthplace Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death 26 February, 2004
Died Place Edinburgh, Scotland
Nationality United Kingdom

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Who Is Russell Hunter's Wife?

His wife is Marjorie Thomson (m. 1949–19??) Caroline Blakiston (m. 1970; div. 19??) Una McLean (m. 1991)

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Wife Marjorie Thomson (m. 1949–19??) Caroline Blakiston (m. 1970; div. 19??) Una McLean (m. 1991)
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Children 4

Russell Hunter Net Worth

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1925

Adam Russell Hunter (18 February 1925 – 26 February 2004) was a Scottish television, stage and film actor.

1946

During this time, he did some amateur acting for the Young Communist League before turning professional in 1946.

1947

Under the stage name Russell Hunter, he acted at Perth Rep and at the Glasgow Unity Theatre also performing in the very first Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1947 in The Plough and the Stars by Seán O'Casey, was a comedian in summer variety shows and toured with a one-man show.

1949

In 1949, Hunter married Marjorie Thomson and had two daughters.

1950

Hunter worked in repertory theatre and Scottish variety before making his film debut in Lilli Marlene (1950).

In the same year, he appeared in the film The Gorbals Story, which featured members of the Glasgow Unity Theatre including Archie Duncan and Roddy McMillan.

The film also featured Hunter's first wife, Marjorie Thomson.

1951

He followed these by playing a pilot in the Battle of Britain drama Angels One Five in 1951.

His theatre work included joining Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company, working with Peggy Ashcroft and Dame Edith Evans.

1964

and appearing in Charlie’s Aunt at the Bristol Old Vic in 1964-5.

1965

After playing Costard in a BBC television production of Love's Labour's Lost (1965), Hunter was cast as Lonely in ITV's "Armchair Theatre" production A Magnum for Schneider in 1967, which introduced the secret agent Callan to the screen.

1967

His most memorable role was the timid, Smelly petty criminal Lonely, unlikely accomplice to a clinical spy-cum-assassin, in the downbeat 1967 television spy series Callan.

Reportedly, he said of his identification with Lonely that "I take more baths than I might have playing other parts. When Lonely was in the public eye I used only the very best toilet water and a hell of a lot of aftershave."

Four series followed (1967, 1969–72).

1970

During his years with Callan, Hunter acted in the Hammer horror film Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) and took the roles of Crumbles, Dr Fogg and Dr Makepeace in an ITV production of Sweeney Todd (1970), He also appeared in the British comedy film Up Pompeii (1971) as the Jailer.

He had two notable appearances in one-man plays performed on BBC Scotland in the early 1970s: Cocky, where he played Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, which ended with his speech to the jury defending Helen McDougal, Burke's wife, in the Burke and Hare case, and Jock, where he played an archetypal Scottish soldier guarding a military museum.

In 1970, he married actress Caroline Blakiston after they both appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park.

They had a son and a daughter.

1974

Hunter and Edward Woodward reprised their roles in both a 1974 feature film of the same name and, seven years later, in the television film Wet Job, by which time Lonely had gone straight, got married and was running a plumbing company called Fresh and Fragrant.

The title plays on "wet job", the euphemism for murder or assassination.

In 1974 he played Ted, a simple-minded but kind-hearted man in a two-part story in Rooms, two-part dramas concerning the various drifters who rent rooms in a lodging house.

He played 'Old Fred' in a 1974 episode of Thriller.

1975

In 1975 he played a Scottish painter in the BBC's adaptation of the Lord Peter Wimsey story The Five Red Herrings.

1977

Hunter's other TV credits include The Sweeney (as a gay petty criminal and informant, Popeye, very similar to his Callan character Lonely), Ace of Wands (as the evil magician Mr Stabs, a role he reprised in an episode of the anthology series Shadows), Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death (1977), Farrington of the F.O., The Bill, A Touch of Frost(Se4ep4), Taggart, sitcoms Rule Britannia (1975) as the Scotsman Jock McGregor and shop steward in The Gaffer (1981–83), and his last ever TV appearance, in the BBC drama Born and Bred.

In his last years he reprised his Doctor Who role for a series of audio plays released on CD, Kaldor City.

He also appeared in an episode of Mind Your Language as a minor character in the episode "I Belong To Glasgow"; he played an opinionated chauffeur who kept clashing with the students.

He also appeared in the TV sitcom Lovejoy as a Scottish submariner in the episode "Angel Trousers".

He also appeared as different characters in the pilot and series of the BBC sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt.

1979

In 1979, at the artist's request, he opened the Edinburgh Festival Exhibition of the Glasgow artist Stewart Bowman Johnson held at the Netherbow Gallery.

1981

He played Lonely in the TV thriller series Callan, starring Edward Woodward, and shop steward Harry in the Yorkshire Television sitcom The Gaffer (1981–1983) with Bill Maynard.

He made guest appearances in television series such as The Sweeney, Doctor Who, Taggart, A Touch of Frost, The Bill and The Return of Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of Silver Blaze.

Born Russell Ellis in Glasgow, Hunter's childhood was spent with his maternal grandparents in Lanarkshire, until returning to his unemployed father and cleaner mother when he was 12.

He went from school to an apprenticeship in a Clydebank shipyard.

1991

His third marriage, in 1991, was to fellow performer Una McLean.

They lived in a converted building at Taylor Gardens in Leith.

Although in the advanced stages of cancer, Hunter's last theatrical stint was in the Reginald Rose play 12 Angry Men at the same, if inconceivably expanded, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with which he had remained inextricably linked.

2003

Despite being ill, Hunter received positive reviews for his appearances in the feature film American Cousins late in 2003 and as a priest in the film Skagerrak.

In November, American Cousins, Hunter's last movie role, received the Special Jury Prize at the Savannah Film Festival in the United States, ending a career spanning six decades.

Russell Hunter died aged 79 at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital of lung cancer.