Movies
I suppose we should be grateful that blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is finally getting his due for “Roman Holiday” (“ ‘Roman Holiday’ Was No Lark,” by Steven Linan, June 26), but that’s no reason to refer to the script’s credited co-writer as Ian McKellen Hunter.
July 3, 1999
Entertainment & Arts
Ian Hunter, 84, British agent for classical musicians and an organizer of arts festivals who worked with the Edinburgh Festival, died Sept. 5 in Balcombe, England, of unspecified causes.
Oct. 1, 2003
Music
In the 20 years since he burst on the rock scene leading the late, often-great Mott The Hoople, Ian Hunter has had his share of musical ups and downs, putting together extraordinary albums and tours, then sometimes reappearing with relative clinkers.
Oct. 13, 1988
Ian McLellan Hunter, a film and television writer who migrated to New York from Hollywood when he became a blacklist target during the McCarthy Era, died Tuesday at a Manhattan hospital.
March 10, 1991
Back in the early ‘80s, Ian Hunter was more like landed gentry than the street-rocker he had been in his younger days.
Dec. 9, 1989
There is a song called “American Music” on the new album by Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson in which Hunter recalls--with a bit too much schmaltz--how he spent his British boyhood absorbing and mimicking all the great stuff from the States that he had in his record collection.
Dec. 14, 1989
Jan. 7, 1990
Dec. 11, 1989
Trumbo’s ‘Holiday’?
Aug. 13, 1991
On paper, the prospect of former Mott the Hoople frontman Ian Hunter recombining with erstwhile partner and ex-Bowie axeman Mick Ronson for a tour that would re-cement their reputations for being among the best ‘n’ brightest stars of the ‘70s sounded like an excellent idea, particularly in light of the local glam-rock revival.
Oct. 10, 1988