Kim Hunter (Actor)

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(11-12-1922 - 09-11-2002) Age 80

Kim Hunter is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning actress. She won a Daytime Emmy for The Edge of Night.

 

She appeared in the following 23 episodes of Radio Mystery Theater
Date Episode Title Plot
01/09/1974 0004 Lost Dog A husband cannot appreciate his wife's phobia of dogs. Once he gets one home, his wife sets it against him.
02/16/1974 0039 A Lady Never Loses Her Head An American lady marries a blue-blooded British man and arrives at his manor house. There she is troubled by a headless apparition on horseback who looks unnervingly familiar in the mirror...
04/02/1974 0067 The Pharoah's Curse A treasure hunt in an Egyptian tomb becomes a nightmare as an archaeologist and a singer become the victim of an ancient curse.
05/13/1974 0090 The Lodger A boarding lodge matron lives in fear due to a series of cruel killings of women in the neighbourhood and a new lodger who she thinks is responsible.
06/25/1974 0110 Where Fear Begins The strange circumstances surrounding her sister's death prompt a young woman to dig deeper. She soon learns that the medication her sibling was taking was prescribed by a mysterious doctor.
09/09/1974 0145 Double Exposure A cop dies in an accident. His wife is mistakenly taken to be someone else by two people. Her friend tries to probe the facts as one of those people thinks that she is his former wife who left him and his children a decade ago.
11/25/1974 0178 The Sighting A couple encounters a UFO landing on Earth. Though the husband insists on denying what he saw, his wife starts to get neighbourly visits from aliens.
02/04/1975 0218 Death in the Stars A newspaper editor is maddened when the paper's horoscope informs her that she is going to die that very day!
11/07/1975 0375 Killing Valley In order to exact revenge against the people that ruined her father's life, a famous writer goes back to the place of her birth to dig up dirt on the town and its people. As she goes along, she is surprised to discover things that she never knew about her parents.
12/18/1975 0398 Fireball When strange things start happening around the newly hired blacksmith, a military contractor's wife begins to suspect that he is the incarnation of the fire god, Vulcan. Her husband is inclined to believe her when he is suddenly crippled by a freak accident.
11/23/1976 0553 The Awakening A police detective investigates the murder of a psychiatrist. His only clue is a tape of the murderer consulting with his psychiatrist just before the murder.
03/18/1977 0619 Little Green Death
In order to defend the proprietor of a small-town book shop charged with a crime he cannot remember, his best friend hires a hot shot lawyer to defend him. Things become complicated when the accused starts to doubt himself and begins to believe that he is actually guilty.
03/24/1977 0622 The Gift of Doom
A snowbound prospector is saved by an Eskimo witch from a fatal accident. He soon learns of her powerful skill with healing magic and decides to marry her. Her talents soon help further his political ambitions. However, bloated with his own self-importance he decides that he no longer needs the savage that is his wife and schemes to get rid of her.
09/22/1977 0713 The Plan The whims of a wealthy woman leads to the demise of her favourite maid and she is wracked with guilt.
02/21/1978 0786 A Phantom Yesterday A renowned German actress is captured by a Nazi war convict when she returns to her homeland after World War II. She must use her wartime espionage experience and guile to save herself.
10/11/1978 0904 The Man in Black After witnessing a murder in an area surrounding the embassies in Washington, D.C., a woman is pitched into an international conspiracy as the police seek to solve the crime.
03/28/1979 0966 Waste Paper During an investigation into the brutal killing of a cleaning woman in a commercial complex, a lady detective discovers that the deceased was actually living a double-life.
02/06/1981 1156 Is Venice Drowning? In order to prove she is as capable as a man, a female engineer is sent to Venice to help find a solution to their problem. Her reputation takes a beating when she suggests they build a temple honoring a goddess in order to keep Venice from sinking.
05/04/1981 1193 Garden of the Moon After purchasing make-up at a new health store, a young executive develops a sudden taste for moon bathing. She is soon invited to a free convention for all the others that have fallen prey to their scam.
08/14/1981 1233 Lovely People In order to help them develop self-confidence, a therapist uses seemingly esoteric powers but her sister has mischief on her mind.
03/01/1982 1296 The Blue Sedan A young female cop undertakes to solve the mystery surrounding the death of a sleazy private investigator. Her only clue is a blue sedan spotted at the scene of the crime.
07/02/1982 1346 Bring Back My Body A psychologist attempts to balance out a woman with split personalities in order to save her from the vindictive rage of one of her personas.
08/17/1982 1361 Famous Last Words A young woman loses all credibility when she reports the discovery of a dead person outside a warehouse- only to have the body vanish when the police finally arrive.

5 Responses to Hunter Kim

Don't forget, she was Zera in the Planet of the Apes!

Josh

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She appeared in 23 episodes. Many of us first got to know her as Zira.

Frank

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She won an Oscar for playing Stella opposite Marlon Brando's Stanley in "A Streetcar Named Desire" - don't forget that, either.

z

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Kim Hunter (born Janet Cole, November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an American film, theatre, and television actress. She still appeared in an episode of CBS's anthology series Appointment with Adventure and NBC's Justice, based on case files of the New York Legal Aid Society.[ She co-starred in Rod Serling's Peabody Award-winning teleplay on Playhouse 90, "Requiem for a Heavyweight". She appeared opposite Mickey Rooney in the 1957 live CBS-TV broadcast of The Comedian, another drama written by Rod Serling and directed by John Frankenheimer. In 1959, she appeared in Rawhide in "Incident of the Misplaced Indians" In 1962, she appeared in the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour and Other Lovely Things". In 1963, Hunter appeared as Anita Anson on the ABC medical drama Breaking Point in the episode "Crack in an Image". In 1965, she appeared twice as Emily Field in the NBC TV medical series Dr. Kildare. In 1967, she appeared in the pilot episode of Mannix. She appeared as Ada Halle in the NBC TV Western series Bonanza in the episode "The Price of Salt". She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire. Decades later, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on the long-running soap opera The Edge of Night. She also portrayed the character of chimpanzee Zira in the first three installments of the original film adaptation Planet of the Apes.

Adam

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Kim Hunter was a prolific actress with numerous appearances on Broadway and in over 170 films and television programs. Her Broadway credits include Write Me A Murder, The Tender Trap and A Streetcar Named Desire. Her film credits include Stairway To Heaven, Deadline U.S.A, Bermuda Affair, Dark August, Two Evil Eyes, her reoccurring role as Zira in the Planet Of The Apes franchise and of course her role of Stella Kowalski in the classic, A Streetcar Named Desire, for which she won an Oscar and a Golden Globe. One of her last performances was in the Clint Eastwood directed murder mystery, Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil. Her television credits include Rawhide, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Bonanza, Mannix, Gunsmoke, Cannon, Columbo, Night Gallery, The Rockford Files, Murder, She Wrote and the daytime soap operas, All My Children, As The World Turns and The Edge of Night.

Charlie

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