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Gareth Hunt
Gareth Hunt as Mike Gambit
Birth name	Alan Leonard Hunt
Born	7 February 1943 London, England
Died	13 March 2007
Notable roles	Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs Mike Gambit in The New Avengers

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Early life

Alan Leonard Hunt was born in London in 1943. He was the nephew of the actress Martita Hunt. He started his television career in 1972, playing a policeman in For the Love of Ada. The same year Hunt appeared in A Family at War and The Organisation. In 1974, he had a role in the Doctor Who story Planet of the Spiders. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Martita Hunt (January 30 1900 - June 13 1969) was a theatre and film actress. ... A police officer is a warranted employee of a Police Service. ... A Family At War was a British television drama made by Granada Television for ITV. The series was transmitted between 1970 and 1972 and examined the lives of the working-class Ashton family of the city of Liverpool and their experiences during the Second World War. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme (and 1996 television movie) produced by the BBC about the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, solving problems and righting wrongs. ... Planet of the Spiders is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from May 4 to June 8, 1974. ...

Television fame

In 1974, Gareth Hunt appeared in the Upstairs, Downstairs episode Missing Believed Killed as Trooper Norton, James Bellamy's batman.^[1] The character was a minor one, however, his performance led John Hawkesworth and Alfred Shaughnessy to ask him to come back as a regular for the fifth series in 1975.^[1] Hunt continued playing Norton, who had by now become the footman, until the eleventh episode of the fifth series, Alberto. In 1974, Hunt also appeared in Bless This House and the following year made appearances in The Hanged Man, Softly, Softly and Space: 1999. Upstairs, Downstairs was a BAFTA and Emmy award-winning British drama set in a large Edwardian townhouse in London that depicted the lives of the servants downstairs and their masters upstairs. It ran on ITV for five series from 1970 to 1975. ... Missing Believed Killed was the eleventh episode of the fourth series of the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. ... A batman is a soldier assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant. ... John Hawkesworth (7 December 1920–30 September 2003) was a television and film producer and writer best known for his work on the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. ... Alfred James Shaughnessy (19 May 1916–2 November 2005), sometimes known as Freddy Shaughnessy, was an English scripwriter and producer best known for being the script editor of Upstairs, Downstairs. ... A footman is a male household servant. ... DVD cover Bless This House on the cover of TV Times magazine. ... Softly, Softly was a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC One. ... Left to right: Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell and Martin Landau from Space:1999s second season. ...

In 1976, the year after leaving Upstairs Downstairs, Gareth Hunt starred alongside Joanna Lumley and Patrick McNee in The New Avengers. The show's producers said he was cast because of his part in Upstairs, Downstairs.^[1] Hunt played secret agent Mike Gambit and starred in the show until its end after two series in 1977. After that in the late 1970s and 1980s, Hunt made appearances in Sunday Night Thriller, Minder and Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense. In 1988, he played many parts in the Pet Shop Boys' film It Couldn't Happen Here. Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as Sapphire & Steel. ... Patrick Macnee (born February 6, 1922) is a British actor. ... The New Avengers is the title of: the 1976–1977 seasons of the television series The Avengers New Avengers, a Marvel Comics comic book begun in 2004 focusing on the Avengers, a superhero team. ... Mike Gambit Mike Gambit (or Michael Gambit) was a character in the British TV series The New Avengers. ... (book cover) Minder was a British comedy-drama about the London criminal underworld. ... Short-lived (one season) TV series from Hammer Studios similar to the format now used by Masters of Horror in which several directors under contract to Hammer produced 13 70 minute films for television. ... The capitalization of song titles in this article may be disputed. ... It Couldnt Happen Here is a Pet Shop Boys movie released in 1988. ...

Hunt was also well known in the United Kingdom for starring in a series of television adverts for the coffee brand Nescafé in the 1980s ^[1], with a trademark move; to shake his clenched hand then open it and smell it, to reveal coffee beans. A cup of coffee Coffee is a widely consumed beverage prepared from the roasted seeds—commonly referred to as beans—of the coffee plant. ... Nescafé is a popular brand of instant coffee made by Nestlé. In Hebrew, Nescafé (נסקפה) means miracle coffee, possibly a reference to the short time it takes to prepare but the Nestlé website states the name is just a portmanteau of the words Nestlé and café. Nestlés prized powdered coffee...

Later years

Gareth Hunt continued to have minor roles in many television programmes in the 1990s and 2000s, with appearances in The New Adventures of Robin Hood, Harry and the Wrinklies, , Absolute Power (as himself), New Tricks and Doctors. From 1992 to 1993 Hunt had a leading role in the sitcom Side by Side ^[1], and had a main role in the short-lived soap opera Night and Day in 2001. In 1997, he appeared in the film Fierce Creatures and in 2001 played Ritchie Stringer, a crime boss who was a suspect in the shooting of Phil Mitchell, in EastEnders.^[2] The New Adventures of Robin Hood was a 1997-1999 live action TV series on Turner Network Television. ... Harry and the wrinklies was a children television series aired on CITV, in which Harry, whose parents are on holiday,is adopted by his Aunts. ... Absolute Power is a British comedy series, set in the offices of Prentiss McCabe, a fictional public relations company (or government-media relations consultancy) in London, run by Charles Prentiss (Stephen Fry), and Martin McCabe (John Bird). ... New Tricks is a BBC television drama series which follows the work of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS). ... Night and Day was a British soap opera which ran from 2001 to 2003. ... Fierce Creatures is a 1997 comedy movie, John Cleese and companys follow-up to the widely popular A Fish Called Wanda. ... Who Shot Phil? was a storyline of the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders which evolved during 2001. ... Phillip James Phil Mitchell is a long-running fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. ... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985[2] and continuing to date. ...

Hunt suffered a heart attack in 1999, and in July 2002 he collapsed while performing on stage in Bournemouth.^[3] Gareth Hunt died of pancreatic cancer in 2007. ^[2] Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), commonly known as a heart attack, is a disease state that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted. ... Bournemouth is a large resort town on the south coast of England. ... Pancreatic cancer (also called cancer of the pancreas) is a malignant tumour within the pancreatic gland. ...

References

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External link

• Gareth Hunt at the Internet Movie Database