Born Martin Fuss in Cleveland, OH; educated at Western Reserve University. A former schoolteacher, he entered films as an actor in the mid-1940s and played leads in such B pictures as LOUISIANA HAYRIDE (1944), A GUY AND A GIRL AND A PAL (1945), HIT THE HAY and SWEETHEART OF SIGMA CHI (both 1946). He then retuned to teaching, and after gaining some experience as stage producer and director, he returned to films in the early 50s as a producer. Hunter produced numerous expensive-looking tear-jerkers as well as comedies and thrillers for Universal until 1971 (MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION, ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, TAMMY AND THE BACHELOR, IMITATION OF LIFE, PILLOW TALK, MIDNIGHT LACE, FLOWER DRUM SONG, MADAME X, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, et al.), when he moved over to Columbia and produced the clunker LOST HORIZON (1973). (As Bette Midler said, "I never miss a Liv Ullmann musical.") He switched to Paramount in 1974 and subsequently restricted his output to TV movies until his retirement in 1979.  Nominated for Best Picture 1970: AIRPORT - Producer at Universal 1 nomination