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name: "Arthur Hunnicutt"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/arthur-hunnicutt"
fi1m_id: "arthur-hunnicutt"
imdb_id: "nm0402277"
tmdb_id: 50971
wikidata_id: "Q709942"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 February 1910"
died: "26 September 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T05:18:53.017818+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Arthur Hunnicutt

## Identity

Arthur Hunnicutt

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/arthur-hunnicutt
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** arthur-hunnicutt
- **IMDb ID:** nm0402277
- **TMDB ID:** 50971
- **Wikidata ID:** Q709942
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hunnicutt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q709942, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402277/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/50971

Actor. Born 17 February 1910 in Gravelly, Arkansas, USA. Died 26 September 1979.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 February 1910, Gravelly, Arkansas, USA
- **Died:** 26 September 1979
- **Also known as:** Arthur Hunnicut, Arthur 'Arkansas' Hunnicutt, Arthur Lee Hunnicutt
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hunnicutt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q709942, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402277/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/50971

## Biography

Arthur Hunnicutt was an American actor. Born in Gravelly, Arkansas, he attended Arkansas State Teachers College before pursuing theatre. He worked in stock companies and on Broadway, including a leading role in Tobacco Road, before moving to Hollywood in 1949.

Hunnicutt appeared in numerous films and television series, often portraying rural or frontier characters. He played Zeb Calloway in *The Big Sky* (1952), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Other credits include *Broken Arrow* (1950), *The Tall T* (1957), *Cat Ballou* (1965) and *El Dorado* (1966), as well as guest roles in series such as *The Andy Griffith Show*, *Bonanza* and *The Twilight Zone*. He died in 1979.

*Sources: encyclopediaofarkansas.net, imdb.com, tcm.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Big Sky* (1952), Fi1m 73, as Zeb Calloway — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-sky.md)

## Complete filmography (83)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Winterhawk* (1975), as McClusky
- *Moonrunners* (1975), as Uncle Jesse Hagg
- *The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return* (1975), as Miner
- *Harry and Tonto* (1974), as Wade
- *The Spikes Gang* (1974), as Kid White
- *Mrs. Sundance* (1974), as Walt Putney
- *Climb an Angry Mountain* (1972), as Sunny
- *The Bounty Man* (1972), as Sheriff
- *The Revengers* (1972), as Free State
- *The Trackers* (1971), as Ben Vogel
- *Shoot Out* (1971), as Homer Page
- *The Million Dollar Duck* (1971), as Mr. Purdham
- *My World and Welcome to It* (1969), series, Actor
- *The Outcasts* (1968), series, Actor
- *Adam-12* (1968), series, as Slim Draper
- *The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin* (1967), as Referee
- *El Dorado* (1966), as Bull Harris
- *Apache Uprising* (1965), as Bill Gibson
- *The Wild Wild West* (1965), series, Actor
- *Laredo* (1965), series, Actor
- *Cat Ballou* (1965), as Butch Cassidy
- *Kilroy* (1965), as Seth Turner
- *Daniel Boone* (1964), series, as Gabe
- *A Tiger Walks* (1964), as Frank Lewis
- *The Cardinal* (1963), as Sheriff
- *The Great Adventure* (1963), series, as Simon Kenton
- *Burke's Law* (1963), series, as Professor Llewellen Kingston
- *The Outer Limits* (1963), series, as Lamont
- *The Virginian* (1962), series, as Tom Croft
- *The Andy Griffith Show* (1960), series, as Jedediah Wakefield
- *The Westerner* (1960), series, as Old Man
- *My Three Sons* (1960), series, Actor
- *Outlaws* (1960), series, Actor
- *The Swamp Fox* (1959), series, Actor
- *The Twilight Zone* (1959), series, as Hyder Simpson — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-twilight-zone.md)
- *Bonanza* (1959), series, as Salty Hubbard, Obie
- *Black Saddle* (1959), series, as Roy Tagger
- *Born Reckless* (1958), as Cool Man
- *The Rifleman* (1958), series, Actor
- *The Donna Reed Show* (1958), series, as Old Man
- *Wanted: Dead or Alive* (1958), series, as Amos Carter
- *Perry Mason* (1957), series, as Amos Kenesaw Mountain Keller, Sandy Bowen
- *Sugarfoot* (1957), series, as Pop Purty
- *The Tall T* (1957), as Ed Rintoon
- *Wire Service* (1956), series, as Hopeful
- *The Kettles in the Ozarks* (1956), as Sedgewick Kettle
- *Cheyenne* (1955), series, Actor
- *Gunsmoke* (1955), series, as Uriah Spessard
- *The Last Command* (1955), as Davy Crockett
- *She Couldn't Say No* (1954), as Odie Chalmers
- *The French Line* (1954), as 'Waco' Mosby
- *Devil's Canyon* (1953), as Frank Taggert
- *Split Second* (1953), as Asa Tremaine
- *The Lusty Men* (1952), as Booker Davis
- *The Big Sky* (1952), as Zeb Calloway — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-sky.md)
- *Distant Drums* (1951), as Monk
- *Passage West* (1951), as Pop Brennan
- *The Red Badge of Courage* (1951), as Bill Porter
- *Sugarfoot* (1951), as Fly-Up-the-Creek Jones
- *Two Flags West* (1950), as Sergeant Pickens
- *The Furies* (1950), as Cowhand (uncredited)
- *Broken Arrow* (1950), as Milt Duffield
- *A Ticket to Tomahawk* (1950), as Sad Eyes
- *Stars in My Crown* (1950), as Chloroform Wiggins
- *Border Incident* (1949), as Clayton Nordell
- *Pinky* (1949), as Police Chief Anderson (uncredited)
- *The Great Dan Patch* (1949), as Chet Williams
- *Lust for Gold* (1949), as Ludi
- *Murder, He Says* (1945), as Townsman (uncredited)
- *Abroad with Two Yanks* (1944), as Arkie
- *Riding West* (1944), as Prof. Arkansas Higgins (as Arthur 'Arkansas' Hunnicutt)
- *The Chance of a Lifetime* (1943), as Elwood "Tex" Stewart (Uncredited)
- *Hail to the Rangers* (1943), as Arkansas (as Arthur 'Arkansas' Hunnicutt)
- *Johnny Come Lately* (1943), as Tramp
- *Robin Hood of the Range* (1943), as Arkansas (as Arthur 'Arkansas' Hunnicutt)
- *Frontier Fury* (1943), as Arkansas (as Arthur 'Arkansas' Hunnicutt)
- *Law of the Northwest* (1943), as Arkansas
- *The Fighting Buckaroo* (1943), as Arkansas (as Arthur 'Arkansas' Hunnicutt)
- *Pardon My Gun* (1942), as Arkansas (as Arthur 'Arkansas' Hunnicutt)
- *Fall In* (1942), as Luke Hatfield
- *Silver Queen* (1942), as Newspaper Publisher Brett
- *Riding Through Nevada* (1942), as Arkansas (as Arthur 'Arkansas' Hunnicutt)
- *Wildcat* (1942), as 'Watchfob' Jones

## Gallery

- ![Arthur Hunnicutt](https://film.one/media/person/3728770/gallery-f3995d6a9d1c.jpg) Arthur Hunnicutt — Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Arthur_Hunnicutt_in_Stars_in_My_Crown_trailer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Arthur Hunnicutt](https://film.one/media/person/3728770/gallery-ec87167eeec4.jpg) Arthur Hunnicutt — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1953: Best Supporting Actor (nominated), for *The Big Sky*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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