Set decorator who entered American film as an associate at MGM for ESCAPADE (1935). Other associate credits include LIBELED LADY (1936), SOMEWHERE I'LL FIND YOU and PANAMA HATTIE (both 1942), THE HUMAN COMEDY, ABOVE SUSPICION and MADAME CURIE (all 1943), DRAGON SEED (1944), OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES and THREE WISE FOOLS (both 1946), THE RED DANUBE and CHALLENGE TO LASSIE (both 1949), and CRISIS and KIM (both 1950). As set decorator, Hunt's credits, alone or in collaboration, include BOOM TOWN (1940, uncredited), CABIN IN THE SKY (1943), THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945), THE DARK MIRROR and TEMPTATION (both 1946), THE SUN COMES UP, THE BRIBE and BIG JACK (all 1949), ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD and QUO VADIS (both 1951), PAT AND MIKE and PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE (both 1952), JULIUS CAESAR and ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT (both 1953), RHAPSODY and SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (both 1954), IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER and I'LL CRY TOMORROW (both 1955), FORBIDDEN PLANET and THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON (both 1956), SILK STOCKIGS, RAINTREE COUNTRY and DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER (all 1957), THE SHEEPMAN (1958), THE WRECK OF THE MARY DEARY and BEN-HUR (both 1959), WHERE THE BOYS ARE and CIMARRON (both 1960), TWO LOVES (1961), SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY and BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO (all 1962), IT HAPPENED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR and TWILIGHT OF HONOR (both 1963), 7 FACES OF DR. LAO and THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN (both 1964), THE CINCINNATI KID (1965), MISTER BUDDWING and SPINOUT (both 1966), THE VENETIAN AFFAIR and DOUBLE TROUBLE (both 1967), SOL MADRID (1968), SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF! and MARLOWE (both 1969), and his last film, THE MOONSHINE WAR (1970).

Nominated for Interior Decoration (Black & White) 1943: MADAME CURIE - Interior Decoration (w. Edwin B. Willis)  Nominated for Interior Decoration (Black & White) 1945: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY - Interior Decoration (w. Edwin B. Willis & John Bonar)  Nominated for Art Direction/Set Decoration (Black & White) 1950: THE RED DANUBE - Set Decoration (w. Edwin B. Willis)  Nominated for Art Direction/Set Decoration (Color) 1951: QUO VADIS? - Set Decoration  Art Direction/Set Decoration (Black & White) 1953: JULIUS CAESAR - Set Decoration (w. Edwin B. Willis)  Nominated for Art Direction/Set Decoration (Black & White) 1955: I'LL CRY TOMORROW - Set Decoration (w. Edwin B. Willis)  Nominated for Art Direction/Set Decoration 1957: RAINTREE COUNTY - Set Decoration (w. Edwin B. Willis)  Art Direction/Set Decoration (Color) 1959: BEN-HUR - Set Decoration  Nominated for Art Direction/Set Decoration (Color) 1960: CIMARRON - Set Decoration (w. Henry Grace & Otto Siegel)  Nominated for Art Direction/Set Decoration (Color) 1962: MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY - Set Decoration (w. Henry Grace)  Nominated for Art Direction/Set Decoration (Black & White) 1963: TWILIGHT OF HONOR - Set Decoration (w. Henry Grace)  Nominated for Art Direction/Set Decoration (Color) 1964: THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN - Set Decoration (w. Henry Grace)  Nominated for Art Direction/Set Decoration (Black & White) 1966: MR. BUDDWING - Set Decoration (w. Henry Grace) 13 nominations, 2 Awards