In the same year, she starred in a Columbo episode "Suitable for Framing". In 1971, she appeared in an episode of Cannon. She also starred in several episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater during the mid-1970s.
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Hunter starred in the controversial TV movie Born Innocent (1974) playing the mother of Linda Blair's character.
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In 1979, she appeared as First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson in the serial drama Backstairs at the White House.
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She also appeared in several radio and TV soap operas, most notably as Hollywood actress Nola Madison in ABC's The Edge of Night, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1980. Her other major film roles include the love interest of David Niven's character in the film A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and Zira, the sympathetic chimpanzee scientist in the 1968 film Planet of the Apes and two sequels. On February 4, 1968, she appeared as Ada Halle in the NBC TV Western series Bonanza in the episode "The Price of Salt". In 1967, she appeared in the pilot episode of Mannix. In 1965, she appeared twice as Emily Field in the NBC TV medical series Dr. In 1964 Hunter appeared in the 'Alfred Hitchcock Hour' episode "The Evil of Adelaide Winters" in the title role. In 1963, Hunter appeared as Anita Anson on the ABC medical drama Breaking Point in the episode "Crack in an Image". In 1962, she appeared in the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour in the role of Virginia Hunter in the episode "Of Roses and Nightingales and Other Lovely Things". In 1959, she appeared in Rawhide in "Incident of the Misplaced Indians" as Amelia Spaulding. She appeared opposite Mickey Rooney in the 1957 live CBS-TV broadcast of The Comedian, another drama written by Rod Serling and directed by John Frankenheimer. The telecast won multiple Emmy Awards, including Best Single Program of the Year. In 1956, with the HUAC's influence subsiding, she co-starred in Rod Serling's Peabody Award-winning teleplay on Playhouse 90, " Requiem for a Heavyweight". Hunter was blacklisted from film and television in the 1950s, amid suspicions of communism in Hollywood, during the era of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). In 1952, Hunter became Humphrey Bogart's leading lady in Deadline USA. In the interim, however, in 1948, she had already joined with Streetcar co-stars Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, and 47 others, to become one of the first members accepted by the newly created Actors Studio. Recreating that role in the 1951 film version, Hunter won both the Academy and Golden Globe awards for Best Supporting Actress. In 1947, she was Stella Kowalski on stage in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Hunter's first film role was in the 1943 film noir The Seventh Victim, and her first starring role was in the 1946 British fantasy film A Matter of Life and Death. Hunter was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Grace Lind, who was trained as a concert pianist, and Donald Cole, a refrigeration engineer. She also portrayed the chimpanzee Zira in Planet of the Apes (1968), and its sequels Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971).
She achieved prominence for portraying Stella Kowalski in the original production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which she reprised for the 1951 film adaptation, and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.ĭecades later, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on the soap opera The Edge of Night. Kim Hunter (born Janet Cole Novem– September 11, 2002) was an American theatre, film, and television actress.
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