Was jeffrey hunter gay

Answer 1

I don't know why this question keeps getting asked, and asked and asked. I theorize that it's because so many gay websites out there say he was gorgeous, and so maybe uncareful readers think that that also means he was gay.

He was not.

Born Henry Herman “Hank” McKinnies on November 25, 1926,Jeffrey Hunter had numerous girlfriends in life, among them, Rita Moreno, Debra Paget, Virginia Leith, and others. He also had two fiancees, including Sally Anne Howe, which didn't result in marriage; and three which did... to Barbara Rush, Dusty Bartlett, and Emily McLaughlin; which marriages produced three children of his own, and one adopted son. Even gay guys on those gay websites acknowledge that it was the ladies he liked, and not other men.

Yes, of course, I suppose one could allege that Hunter was like so many actors back in those days (think Rock Hudson, for example) who were only pretending to be straight, but were actually closeted gay; however, honestly, there's simply no evidence that Hunter was one of them... there wasn't even a scandalous allegation. And several of the women in his life attested -- especially after his death -- that there wasn't anything even remotely gay about him; that he was unambiguously heterosexual.

I, personally, remember Hunter best from his playing Jesus Christ in the 1961 epic film "King of Kings;" and also from his playing therole of Captain Christopher Pike in "The Cage," which was the pilot episode of the original Star Trek television series; several scenes from which were flashed-back to in subsequent Star Trek episodes. And, of course, I also saw him in a few films from his '50s and '60s spate of them in which he either starred or played secondary roles.

Sadly, when the so-called "studio contract system" fell by the wayside in the movie industry in the early 1960s, Hunter became one of several handsome leading men who just couldn't find work, and so had to do "B" movies and a little television just to survive.

He died quite unexpectedly in the Spring of 1969 from, of all things, falling down while either asending or descending (no one knows, for sure) a flight of stairs at home, and fracturing his skull, after having the second (of two) cerebral hemorrhages. The first cerebral hemorrhage was a short time before while he was on an airplane flight home after having been injured by an explosion on the set of a movie on which he was working. The second hemhorrhage, which resulted in his fall on the stairs, left him lying there, unconscious, for hours before someone found him; and he then died in the surgery to repair the resulting skull fracture. He was only 42.

So, bottom line: No, Jeffrey Hunter was not gay; and all of any gay guy's wishing otherwise won't change that.

Answer 2

There is no evidence that Jeffrey Hunter had any gay experiences.