Peter H. Hunt, who won a Tony Award for his direction in 1969 of the now-classic musical 1776, helmed the 1972 film version and numerous episodes of CBS’ Touched By An Angel, died Sunday at h…
lighting designer through much of the 1960s , Hunt made his directorial breakthrough with the smash hit, the Revolutionary War-era musical by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone. The original Broadway cast included such stars-in-the-making as William Daniels, Betty Buckley and, as Thomas Jefferson, Ken Howard. Ronald Holgate, as Richard Henry Lee, won the Tony Award for best featured actor in a musical, while the production itself won Best Musical. Hunt won a Tony for his direction.
If the director’s Broadway career didn’t immediately live up to his early promise – four productions would come and go fairly quickly, until 1997’smusical, which ran for several years – Hunt, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, would establish himself as a strong presence in both theater development and as a prolific and longstanding television director.
Hunt is survived by his wife, son Max, daughters Daisy and Amy, and brother George. His late brother Gordon was the father of Helen Hunt.
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