Gareth Hunt Filmography

Born:: February 7, 1943 in London, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Best known for sustaining the role of Mike Gambit in the hit television spy drama The New Avengers, British actor Gareth Hunt also attained popularity on his home side of the Atlantic as Frederick Norton on the popular weekly BBC drama Upstairs, Downstairs. Born on February 7, 1943, in London...Read More

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Parting Shots

Actors: Chris Rea, Felicity Kendal, John Cleese, Bob Hoskins, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: Michael Winner directed this British comedy-thriller about the disappointing life of wedding photographer Harry Sterndale (singer-actor Chris Rea). Betrayed by his wife, Harry had his ideas stolen by his best friend Maurice Walpole (John Cleese), was fleeced by shady businessman Gerd Layton (Bob Hoskins Read More

1998
Fierce Creatures

Actors: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Robert Lindsay

Synopsis: The starring cast of the hit A Fish Called Wanda reunited for this farcical comedy, which star and co-screenwriter John Cleese described as "not a sequel, but an equal." When London's Marwood Zoo is purchased by Octopus, Inc., the multi-national holding company run by New Zealand publishing tycoon Read More

1997
A Ghost in Monte Carlo

Actors: Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: A Ghost in Monte Carlo is based on one of the millions of romance novels penned by Barbara Cartland. True to the Cartland canon, the story is set long ago (1875) and far away (The Riviera). Sarah Miles is top-billed as a pompadoured former madam, while Oliver Reed dispenses tons of Armor Star as a Read More

1990
Castle of Adventure

1990
A Chorus of Disapproval

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales, Jenny Seagrove, Sylvia Syms

Synopsis: Alan Ayckbourn's riotously funny play about a small-time acting troupe in the sticks is brought to the screen by director Michael Winner. Jeremy Irons plays Guy Jones, a mild-mannered flunky for an electronics firm who finds himself transferred to the British seaside town of Scarsborough. Bereft Read More

8/18/89
The Lady and the Highwayman

Actors: Hugh Grant, Oliver Reed, Emma Samms

Synopsis: Adaptation of Barbara Cartland's novel featuring a 17th century adventure romance between an aristocrat and an endangered noblewoman. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1989
It Couldn't Happen Here

Actors: Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, Joss Ackland, Neil Dickson, Gareth Hunt

Synopsis: This half-hearted avant garde feature is a thinly disguised exploitation feature for the British synth-pop duo The Pet Shop Boys (Neil Tenant and Chris Lowe). They travel though London where they encounter a variety of colorful characters. Several songs appear as well, including the title track Read More

1988
A Hazard of Hearts

Actors: Marcus Gilbert, Diana Rigg, Helena Bonham Carter

Synopsis: Hazard of Hearts was adapted for television from a 1948 bodice-ripper by Barbara Cartland. Set (where else?) in 1810 England, the film stars Helena Bonham Carter as the obligatory innocent young lass with a dynamite figure. Falling in love with a Rochester-like Marquis (Marcus Gilbert), Helena is Read More

1987
And the Wall Came Tumbling Down

Synopsis: An old building falls victim to the wrecker's ball. When the dust clears, the demolition crew discovers the three-centuries-old remains of a satanic cult. Barbi Benton, Gareth Hunt and Brian Deacon (in a dual role) head the cast of this British TV movie. And the Wall Came Tumbling Down debuted in Read More

1984
Bloodbath at the House of Death

Actors: Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson, Vincent Price, Sheila Steafel, John Fortune

Synopsis: This British horror spoof was conceived as a star vehicle for then-popular TV comedian Kenny Everett, who plays an occult scientist whose team of paranormal researchers are measuring psychic disturbances at a rural English estate called "Headstone Manor." Once the site of a bloody massacre, the Read More

1984
The Man From S.E.X.

Actors: Gareth Hunt, Nick Tate, Fiona Curzon, Gary Hope, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: One-dimensional characters tend to fall flat, and that seems to be the case in this low-budget parody of a James Bond spy-thriller that has stretched the bravado of the spy genre beyond its elastic limits. The story involves a British agent, Charles Bind (Gareth Hunt) sent on a mission to find Read More

1983
Funny Money

Actors: Gregg Henry, Elizabeth Daily, Gareth Hunt, Annie Ross, Derren Nesbitt

Synopsis: This weak, unevenly plotted story of a con artist and his helper features Gregg Henry as Ben who works as a lounge pianist in a London hotel, and Elizabeth Daily as Cass, a fellow American out looking for some fun in life. The two team up to fraud hotel guests by stealing and using the guests' Read More

1982
The World Is Full of Married Men

Actors: Anthony Franciosa, Carroll Baker, Sherrie Cronn, Paul Nicholas, Gareth Hunt

Synopsis: This 1980 British production is based on the trashy romantic novel of the same name by Jackie Collins. Fabulously-successful advertising executive David Cooper (Anthony Franciosa) is a jet-setting philanderer who has a woman in seemingly every port of call. His long-suffering wife Linda (Carroll Baker Read More

1980
Licensed to Love and Kill

1979
The New Avengers: Angels of Death

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: Fifty secret agents and civil servants, all apparently healthy and robust, have died of unknown causes over a two-year period. Steed (Patrick MacNee), Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (Gareth Hunt) investigate the health farm where all of the victims had worked out before their untimely demises. Read More

1977
The New Avengers: Obsession

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Martin Shaw, Mark Kingston

Synopsis: Larry Doomer (Martin Shaw), ex-fiancee of New Avenger Purdey (Joanna Lumley), is determined to get even for the death of his father. To this end, Doomer has targetted an Arab diplomat for assassination. Unfortunately, Doomer's misguided missile will not only wipe out the diplomat, but all of the Read More

1977
The New Avengers: The Lion and the Unicorn

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Jean Claudio, Maurice Marsac

Synopsis: Unicorn (Jean Claudio), a top enemy agent, is accidentally killed by his own comrades during a shootout. To fool the Other Side, the New Avengers arrange an elaborate hoax to make it appear as though Unicorn is still alive. Unfortunately, the villains have captured a foreign Prince in hopes of Read More

1977
The New Avengers: Medium Rare

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Jon Fitch, Mervyn Johns

Synopsis: An international swindler intends to destroy Steed (Patrick MacNee) by framing him as a turncoat and a murderer. Somehow or other, a fake spiritualist, Victoria Stanton (Sue Holderness), picks up on the villain's plans and warns Steed. It would seem that Victoria is able to anticipate the bad Read More

1977
The New Avengers: Three Handed Game

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, David Wood, Stephen Grief

Synopsis: The gimmick on this episode is a mind-transfer machine which drains all conscious thoughts from people, leaving them in a vegetative state. The villain of the piece steals the machine, hoping to harvest a secret code from the minds of three captured agents, each of whom knows only a portion of the Read More

1977
The New Avengers: Dirtier by the Dozen

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, John Castle, Shaun Curry

Synopsis: The New Avengers investigate when a high-ranking military officer (Michael Barrington) disappears. Our heroes come across a band of mercenaries led by rogue colonel "Mad Jack" Miller (John Castle), who intends to launch an invasion of the Middle East and thus trigger World War 3. Ah, but Miller Read More

1977
The New Avengers: Dead Men are Dangerous

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Clive Revill, Richard Murdoch

Synopsis: Season two of The New Avengers begins with another revenge-motivated episode. Ten years ago, John Steed (Patrick MacNee) was forced to shoot down his old friend and fellow agent Mark (Clive Revill), who had defected to the East. Since that time, Mark has been slowly dying from his wound, as the Read More

1977
The New Avengers: Gnaws

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Julian Holloway, Peter Cellier

Synopsis: The New Avengers wrapped up its first season with an episode which writer Dennis Spooner has confessed was based on "Attack of the Alligators",an installment of the "Supermarionation" series Thunderbirds (with, it would seem, a bit of "Monty Python" thrown in). An illicitly developed growth liquid Read More

1977
The New Avengers: The Gladiators

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Louis Zorich, Neil Vipond

Synopsis: In the second of four New Avengers episodes filmed in Canada, a rogue KGB agent has trained a band of mercenary criminals to destroy a top-secret security installation, thereby hurtling the Canadian Intelligence system back to the 1950s. Worse still, the bad guys are all-powerful and virtually Read More

1977
The New Avengers: Complex

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Cec Linder, Harvey Atkin

Synopsis: The first of four New Avengers episodes filmed in Canada finds our dauntless trio of dogooders in Toronto, on the trail of an elusive Russian agent known as Scapina. Getting separated from her colleagues, Purdey (Joanna Lumley) finds herself trapped in a computerized building. Even worse: The Read More

1977
The New Avengers: Forward Base

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Jack Creley, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: In this fourth Canadian-filmed episode of The New Avengers, Steed (Patrick MacNee), Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (Joanna Lumley) doggedly search for a missing circuit, following such clues as a drowned corpse in an evening gown. The trail leads to the bottom of Lake Ontario, where our heroes Read More

1977
The New Avengers: Emily

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Les Carison, Richard Davidson

Synopsis: In the third of four New Avengers episodes filmed in Canada, Steed (Patrick MacNee), Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (Joanna Lumley) are assigned to guard an antique automobile known as Emily. It seems that the old car contains the only known fingerprints of an elusive secret agent known only as Read More

1977
The New Avengers: Hostage

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, William Franklyn, Simon Oates

Synopsis: The title character in this episode is Purdey (Joanna Lumley), who has been abducted by the Other Side. In order to save Purdey's life, Steed (Patrick MacNee) must agree to hand over top-secret allied defense plans. Unaware that Purdey is in danger, Gambit (Gareth Hunt) reluctantly sets about to Read More

1977
The New Avengers: Trap

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Terry Wood, Ferdy Mayne

Synopsis: Teaming up with CIA agent Marty Brine (Stuart Damon), the New Avengers foil a huge drug deal engineered by Mandarin crime boss Soo Choy (Terry Wood). In retaliation, Soo Choy lures Steed (Patrick MacNee), Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (Joanna Lumley) into his lair, then hunts them down like Read More

1977
The New Avengers: K is for Kill: Tiger by the Tail

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Pierre Vernier, Maurice Marsac

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the two-part story, a malfunctioning Soviet satellite has reactivated Russian "K" agents throughout France and England, transforming the agents into homicidal zombies. The New Avengers think they can rest easy upon confirming that all 250 K agents are dead--until they learn Read More

1977
The New Avengers: K is for Kill: The Tiger Awakes

Actors: Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Pierre Vernier, Maurice Marsac, Charles Millot

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story filmed in France, a Russian "K" agent, imbedded as a "sleeper", commits mass murder and then drops dead, aging rapidly as he expires. This occurs in 1965; twelve years agent, another long-imbedded "K" agent is likewise reactivated and likewise launches a Read More

1977
The New Avengers: The Midas Touch

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, John Carson, Ed Devereaux

Synopsis: The touch of Midas (Gilles Millinaire) is hardly golden in this episode. It seems that the young called Midas is a carrier of every known disease, and can kill with the slightest contact of his fingertips ("They died of everything!" is the diagnosis whenever one of his victims is found). Enticed Read More

1976
The New Avengers: Cat Amongst the Pigeons

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Vladek Sheybal, Matthew Long

Synopsis: Blackballed by his peers, crackpot conservationist Zacardi (Vladek Sheybal) intends to get even with his highly trained birds, which swoop down and kill on his orders. Steed (Patrick MacNee), Purdey (Joanna Lumley) and Gambit (Gareth Hunt) endeavor to stop Zacardi in his plan to take over the Read More

1976
The New Avengers: The Last of the Cybernauts...??

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Robert Lang, Oscar Quitak

Synopsis: Previously seen on two episodes of the original Avengers, those malevolent metallic menaces, the Cybernauts, are at large again. This time, the man behind the Cybernaut invasion is Kane (Robert Lang), a crippled and disfigured double agent who has a score to settle with John Steed (Patrick Read More

1976
The New Avengers: The Eagle's Nest

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Peter Cushing, Derek Farr

Synopsis: The New Avengers begins its two-season run with "old" avenger John Steed (Patrick Macnee), as fastidious and gentlemanly as ever, teamed with two new, young, and attractive partners: Purdey (Joanna Lumley), a sexy, cool-headed martial arts expert (sound familiar?), and Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt), a Read More

1976
The New Avengers: House of Cards

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Peter Jeffrey, Frank Thornton

Synopsis: Steed (Patrick MacNee), Purdy (Joanna Lumley) and Gambit (Gareth Hunt) foil the latest mission of Soviet agent Perov (Peter Jeffrey). In retaliation, and in defiance of his superiors, Perov reactivates several "sleeper" agents who have been squirreled away throughout the U.K. for the past 20 Read More

1976
The New Avengers: Faces

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, David de Keyser, Edward Petherbridge

Synopsis: Steed (Patrick MacNee) Purdey (Joanna Lumley) and Gambit (Gareth Hunt) go undercover in one of the seamier neighborhoods of London. The Reason? Several prominent governmnet officials, including a friend of Steed's, have turned up dead. It turns out that someone is using disguised derelicts to Read More

1976
The New Avengers: Sleeper

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Keith Buckley, Arthur Dignam

Synopsis: Government scientists develop a knockout gas, designed to peacefully quell terrorist uprisings. The gas, and its antidote, inevitably fall into the Wrong Hands, those hands belonging to a gang of crooks who plan to send all of London off to slumberland so that they can embark upon a wholesale Read More

1976
The New Avengers: The Tale of the Big Why

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Derek Waring, Jenny Runacre

Synopsis: In exchange for providing valuable information to the government, a convict is set free. But no sooner has the prisoner set foot on the "outside" than he is mowed down by enemy gunfire. The New Avengers try to find out what he was going to tell, and why he was killed--with a tattered paperback Read More

1976
The New Avengers: Target!

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Keith Barron, Robert Beatty

Synopsis: Purdey (Joanna Lumley) heads to an obstacle-laden firing range in hopes of breaking Steed's (Patrick MacNee) perfect marksmanship record. Five of Steed's previous associates have attempted the same thing at the same range, have fallen short of a perfect score by a mere fraction--and have promptly Read More

1976
The New Avengers: To Catch a Rat

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Ian Hendry, Edward Judd

Synopsis: Ian Hendry, who as Dr. David Keel had been one of the original stars of the original Avengers, is here cast as Gunner, an amnesiac secret agent. Having been missing for seventeen years, Gunner suddenly shows up, and just as suddenly recovers his memory, providing a strange coded message. This new Read More

1976
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders, Episode 4

Actors: Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen, Richard Franklin, Nicholas Courtney, John Levene

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of the six-part story "Planet of the Spiders," the crooked Lupton (John Dearth) has stolen the powerful blue crystal coveted by the spider empress of the planet Metebelis 3. The empress' minions take over Lupton's mind, enabling the Doctor (Jon Pertwee), who brought the Read More

1974
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders, Episode 3

Actors: Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen, Richard Franklin, Nicholas Courtney, John Levene

Synopsis: In the third episode of the six-part story "Planet of the Spiders," three spider-like creatures from Metebelis 3 arrive on earth by way of an English monastery. There mission: To retrieve a powerful blue crystal, previously stolen from them by the Doctor (Jon Pertwee), which is highly coveted by Read More

1974
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders, Episode 6

Actors: Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen, Richard Franklin, Nicholas Courtney, John Levene

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the "transitional" six-part Doctor Who story "Planet of the Spiders," the Doctor returns the precious blue crystal to the Great One, the spider-empress of the planet Metebelis 3. As expected, the crystal endows the empress with incredible powers -- too incredible, in fact. The Read More

1974
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders, Episode 5

Actors: Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen, Richard Franklin, Nicholas Courtney, John Levene

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the six-part story "Planet of the Spiders," the Doctor travels to the planet Metebelis 3, in hopes of rescuing his companion, Sarah (Katy Manning). There he is given an ultimatum: immediately return the precious blue crystal, which he stole from Metebelis during a previous Read More

1974
The New Avengers: Season 02

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley
The New Avengers: Season 01

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley

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