Huntington Macdonald Block (born February 16, 1953), known as Hunt Block, is an American actor.
Block is the son of Huntington T. Block, an insurance underwriter, and is the brother of film producer, Bill Block. He lives in Connecticut.
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Career
Hunt Block graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Harvard University (with an emphasis on Anthropology and Film Studies) but was discovered selling Buick Century automobiles at the Chicago Auto Show. Early in his career, an agent saw him in an off-off-Broadway show and helped find him soap and commercial jobs. Thus he made numerous TV commercials, short films, and experimental theater pieces. In his youth he spent a summer working with the Sioux Indians in South Dakota and has spent time in Bolivia and Fiji.
While living in Tribeca in New York City, he performed in stage and Broadway productions for Arthur Laurents, Edward Albee, Robert Smith, and Doric Wilson. He appeared in William Shakespeare's As You Like It, Forever After, A Loss Of Memory, Provicante di Saliva, The Bald Soprano, and Make Mine Kafka!
Block has worked with film directors Arthur Hiller, Peter Medak, Lee Katzin, Alvin Rakoff, and Phillip Noyce. He has played the roles of U.S. President Howard Lewis in the film Salt, Sebastian Weinberg in My Best Day, Walter Hill in Only I..., and the U.S. Olympian Robert Garrett (1875–1961), a young scion of a wealthy Baltimore railroad and financier family in the TV miniseries The First Olympics: Athens 1896.
When he first moved to L.A. he was cast as a wind surfer in a TV movie, Summer Girl. Since then, Block has had starring roles in several other television movies and television pilots, and has appeared steadily in lead roles in several dramatic serials, such as Knots Landing, and numerous TV daytime dramas, including Guiding Light, All My Children, As the World Turns, and One Life to Live.
