#jeffrey hunter

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Susan Oliver and Jeffrey Hunter - Star Trek (1966)

#star trek tos #jeffrey hunter #captain christopher pike #susan oliver #vina #the cage #the menagerie #orion dancing girl #60s sci-fi #60s tv series #sixties #1966

[elen-aranel]

Not every cage is a prison, nor every loss eternal.

Captain Christopher Pike + Cages, Star Trek TOS, Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Star Trek Discovery

#Christopher Pike #Jeffrey Hunter #Anson Mount #Star Trek #star trek strange new worlds #Star Trek TOS #Star Trek Discovery #strange new worlds #snw #TOS #Captain Pike #startrekdaily #trekdaily #treksource #snwedit #pikegifsbyelen #snwgifsbyelen #gifsbyelen #gif #flashing gif

[tygerland]

The Searchers (1956)

#old hollywood #cinematography #1950s #retro #cowboy #western #landscape #john wayne #cinema #the searchers #film #natalie wood #hollywood #john ford #art history #20th century #director #filmedit #movies #jeffrey hunter #🎞🎞🎞 #ward bond #henry brandon

[ansonmountdaily]

Anson Mount at Star Trek: Las Vegas convention 2023

Pictures and fun Twitter reactions of Anson being at STLV 2023 promoting Star Trek: Strange New Worlds alongside fellow cast members, August 4 2023.

The lines at his autograph table are reportedly huge! A fan posted a video of the waiting line and wrote on Twitter: "If you want an idea of the most popular #StarTrek show and cast at the moment, this was the line for an Anson Mount autograph today at #STLV. By far the longest."

Anson will be doing more autographs and photo-ops over the weekend! Judging by the photo session pictures taken with fans, he is wearing a Captain Pike inspired belt buckle, with the likeness of Captain Pike actor Jeffrey Hunter from Star Trek: The Original Series. :)

Source: Collin Bryant, ParksAndCons, HeroWithinInc, KerryGillard1 + Twitter thread

#star trek strange new worlds #strange new worlds #star trek #star trek las vegas #anson mount #jeffrey hunter #captain pike #christopher pike #*appearance #appearanceedit #*edit #loving the reactions from visitors! #'smells like cedar with a hint of lillac' is brilliant #like a fancy candle :) <3 #the pike belt is so sweet! omg! #so glad i spotted it

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Movie Life (July1953)

Jeffrey Hunter And Robert Wagner (1951)

#Film #Robert Wagner #Jeffrey Hunter #Swimming #Men #Magazines #Movie Life #Shirtless #Gay #1951 #1953 #1950s #50s

[gameraboy2]

Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike in Star Trek

#jeffrey hunter #captain pike #star trek #star trek strange new worlds #strange new worlds #vintage #television #behind the scenes #vintage television

[lovelyangryheart]

Jeffrey Hunter

#vintage men #vintage actors #Jeffrey Hunter

[alovelywaytospendanevening]

Why don't you just go outside and yell it to the whole neighborhood?

No Down Payment (1957) — dir. Martin Ritt

#no down payment #joanne woodward #sheree north #tony randall #jeffrey hunter #cameron mitchell #patricia owens #barbara rush #pat hingle #classic hollywood #old hollywood #my gifs #classicfilmedit #classicfilmsource #tvfilmsource #gifset #filmedit #oldhollywoodedit #filmgifs #moviegifs #suburbia #50s #1950s

[citizenscreen]

Jeffrey Hunter and Debra Paget during the filming of PRINCESS OF THE NILE (1954), directed by Harmon Jones.

#jeffrey hunter #debra paget #behind the scenes #old hollywood #classic movies

[chernobog13]

Captain Christopher Pike about to get medieval on someone.

#Star Trek #Star Trek: The Original Series #The Cage #The Menagerie Part 2 #Captain Christopher Pike #Jeffrey Hunter

[trevsplace]

Vina ♪ I just met a girl named "Vina"... ♫

(Sunday night Photoshop shenanigans)

#West Side Story #Star Trek #mashup #Vina #Christopher Pike #Susan Oliver #Jeffrey Hunter #Trek Side Story

[oldshowbiz]

#star trek #leonard nimoy #sci fi #pilot #jeffrey hunter

[ansonmountdaily]

Anson Mount and Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike wearing the Starfleet field jacket

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS 1x03 "Ghosts of Illyria" (2022) STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES 1x00 Pilot "The Cage" (1965)

"The field jacket [was] inspired by the landing party jackets in "The Cage". We went for a classic 1960's inspired bomber jacket using custom gunmetal delta print and foiled neoprene trim." - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds costume designer Bernadette Croft via Instagram

#star trek strange new worlds #strange new worlds #star trek #captain pike #christopher pike #anson mount #jeffrey hunter #tvedit #trekedit #dailymenedit #spoilers #strangenewworldsedit #*edit #our captains look so handsome! #gorgeousness wrapped in a badass leather jacket #i love love their profiles #everyone wants the new field jacket #i'd wear it every day #to channel that star trek vibe :)

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Shirtless Celebrities

James Cagney (1932)

Jeffrey Hunter And Robert Wagner (1951)

Rock Hudson (1956)

Christopher Walken (1969)

Tab Hunter And Roddy McDowall

Harpo Marx

James Dean

Robert Redford

#Photography #Film #Shirtless #Men #Robert Redford #James Cagney #Jeffrey Hunter #Robert Wagner #Rock Hudson #Christopher Walken #Tab Hunter #Roddy McDowell #Harpo Marx #James Dean #Vintage

[natalie38wood]

THE SEARCHERS (1956)

JOHN WAYNE, NATALIE WOOD, JEFFREY HUNTER, VERA MILES

#the searchers #john wayne #Natalie Wood #Lana Wood #jeffrey hunter #john ford

[kosmos2999]

In what ways did William Shatner's portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk differ from the way the character was originally written?

You really have to look at the difference between Captain Christopher Pike (portrayed by Jeff Hunter in the first Star Trek pilot, “The Cage”) and Captain James Kirk (portrayed by William Shatner in the second Star Trek pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before”) to see the evolution of the Captain in Star Trek.

As originally written, the Captain of the USS Enterprise was a rather dark, tormented man who was already thinking of resigning his Starfleet commission (in the pilot episode) because he was fed-up with the demands of leadership. That was Jeff Hunter’s portrayal of Christopher Pike.

^^^ Jeff Hunter’s Captain Pike appeared as almost a reluctant commander. He was introspective and self-doubting and mostly humorless, and he didn’t want the responsibility of issuing life-or-death orders and leading others into deadly situations.

He didn’t like women on the bridge, either, except for his First Officer Number One (because she had no obvious feminine personality).

Pike was also aggressive. He barked most of his lines, he glared a lot, and he was even violently intimidating (choking a frightened and physically-frail Talosian, for example, and directly threatening to burn a hole through the alien at close range).

^^^ If looks could kill, right. No wonder the Talosians concluded that humans were "too violent and dangerous a species for our needs.”

NBC rejected the first Star Trek pilot for several reasons, including Jeff Hunter’s Christopher Pike, who was considered too intense, angry and not very likable. Gee, wonder why?

Could it be because Jeff Hunter’s controlling wife was often on the set, badgering Hunter as well as the producer and director? That probably made Hunter’s job many times more difficult, and I think it showed in his performance.

When NBC requested a second Star Trek pilot, it was decided to rewrite some characters and do away with others. For example, First Officer Number One was entirely removed from the script; Spock was promoted to First Officer as well as Science Officer; Doctor Boyce (Ship’s Physician and bartender) was also eliminated from the script and replaced with a more down-to-earth country doctor (this was Doctor Piper, who quickly evolved into Doctor McCoy); and Christopher Pike was to be rewritten as a kinder, gentler, more likable Captain.

However, there was a contractual problem, inasmuch as Jeff Hunter had signed to do only one pilot and a series (if NBC bought it)…but he didn’t sign to do two pilots and a series. Gene Roddenberry and Desilu Studios really wanted Jeff Hunter to continue working on the show, but they knew they’d have to cajole Hunter (and his overbearing wife) into signing for a second pilot.

So, Roddenberry called Jeff Hunter in for a post-rejection screening of The Cage to discuss character revisions and signing another contract for another pilot. This is where it got messy.

Desilu production head Herbert Solow was at the screening and described it best:

“In the eyes of the New York and Los Angeles television world, Star Trek was already a failure. But we knew differently and looked forward to running the completed pilot for our star, Jeff Hunter. We hoped it would convince him to do another pilot. Gene and I waited in the Desilu projection room for him to arrive. He never did. Arriving in his stead was actress Sandy Bartlett, Mrs. Jeff Hunter. We traded hellos, and I nodded to Gene. He flicked the projection booth intercom switch. ‘Let's go.’

“As the end credits rolled, and the lights came up, Jeff Hunter's wife gave us our answer: ‘This is not the kind of show Jeff wants to do, and besides, it wouldn't be good for his career. Jeff Hunter is a movie star.’ Mrs. Hunter was very polite and very firm. She said her good-byes and left, having surprisingly and swiftly removed our star from our new pilot.”

–Herb Solow, Inside Star Trek: The Real Story

So, Jeff Hunter just vanished from Star Trek. He wasn’t fired, as some claimed…he quit. Or, more precisely, his beast of a wife quit for him. Two years later (1967), after Star Trek was a success, Jeff Hunter divorced his wife.

As it happened, there was another actor invited to that same screening (quietly taking notes), and that actor was Bill Shatner, who was waiting in the wings when Jeff Hunter opted out.

Thus entered the new Captain of the Enterprise, James R. Kirk.

^^^ Yep, he was actually named James R. Kirk in his first Star Trek appearance: It says so on his tombstone in “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” the second Star Trek pilot.

Shatner’s Kirk was basically just the opposite of Hunter’s Pike. Captain Kirk was thoughtful but not deeply introspective; he was not tormented but was supremely confident and never self-doubting; he loved his ship and crew, but was willing to take life-or-death risks with both; he was perfectly comfortable with women on the bridge (or just women in general); and he could be humorous, if a little irritating.

^^^ Captain Kirk was a more likable, humorous and confident alternative to Christopher Pike.

Captain Kirk, unlike Captain Pike, was always a ready negotiator, offering an olive branch first and only turning to violence as a last resort; indeed, even in violent scenes, Kirk was typically defending himself.

In short, Shatner portrayed Kirk as a role model for kids. Shatner fully realized that Star Trek was a kids’ show, first and foremost, so he played a kid’s idea of a starship captain…and nailed it.

It became apparent from the second pilot onward that Kirk’s human warmth was a perfect balance for Spock’s icy Vulcan logic (which evolved as the first season of Star Trek progressed). Their dynamic became pure gold for the series and the movie franchise.

^^^ DeForest Kelley’s emotional and quick-tempered Doctor McCoy assumed the role of a counter-character playing against Spock, while Kirk became the reasonable middle-man between the two, and so was born the legendary trio.

By Charles Austin Miller, Investigative Journalist and Publisher.

Found at Quora:

#space opera #space western #star trek #star trek the original series #jeffrey hunter #william shatner #christopher pike #james t. kirk #star trek tos #60s sci fi #60s tv series #60s tv shows #desilu studios #gene roddenberry