![]() ![]() ![]() Without any drama lessons or acting experience, Hunter made his film debut in a bit part in Joseph Losey’s social drama The Lawless (1950). It was Willson who turned Roy Fitzgerald into Rock Hudson, Robert Mosely into Guy Madison, Merle Johnson Jr into Troy Donahue, Francis McCown into Rory Calhoun and Arthur Gelien into Tab Hunter. Willson had an eye for good-looking men whom he would rename and get into films, sometimes in return for sexual favours. But an introduction to the actors’ agent Henry Willson changed his life. On his return home, he took a job at a riding academy. He was not discharged until almost a year later, when the deception was discovered. Following his parents’ divorce, his mother moved the children to California to get away from her abusive husband, and they took her maiden surname.Īt 15, young Arthur ran away from home to join the US Coast Guard, lying about his age. ![]() (His older brother was killed in Vietnam in 1965.) His mother was a German Roman Catholic immigrant, and his father was Jewish. Hunter was born Arthur Kelm in New York City, the younger of two sons of Charles Kelm and Gertrude Gelien. Tab Hunter and Sophia Loren in That Kind of Woman, 1959. ![]()
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