Jeffrey Hunter


Jeffrey Jeff Hunter was an American film and television actor and producer. Hunter is known for his roles as the sidekick to John Waynes character in The Searchers, as Jesus Christ in the biblical film King of Kings, and as Capt. Christopher Pike in the original pilot episode of Star Trek and appears in archival footage in the series only twopart episode, The Menagerie.

Hunter was born Henry Herman Hank McKinnies, Jr., in New Orleans, Louisiana, and after 1930 reared in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Whitefish Bay High School. He began acting in local theater and radio in his early teens. He served stateside in the United States Navy, in World War II, then from 1946 to 1949 studied theatre at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Source: Wikipedia


RELATED SEARCHES