Ian McLellan Hunter ’38

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IAN HUNTER, screen and television writer who won an Academy Award for the 1951 film ROMAN HOLIDAY , died March 5, 1991, of a heart attack at ColumbiaPresbyterian Medical Center in New York.

Ian left us after freshman year and was a newspaperman in New York before going to Hollywood. During WWII he was with O.S.S. He served at the San Francisco Conference and in the office of the U.S. Chief Counsel at the Nuremberg trials.

His film credits were many, including A WOMAN OF DISTINCTION and MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY. For television he wrote scripts for, among other plays, Thomas Wolfe's YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN and DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, for which he won an Edgar, the annual mystery award, and the miniseries "The Blue and the Gray." He wrote episodes for several series, including "The Defenders" and "The Adams Chronicles," He taught in the dramatic writing program at New York Univ. for twenty years.

In 195257 he was Schools Committeeman for the P.A.A. of Nassau County, N.Y.

He is survived by his wife, Alice; a son, Tim; and his sister, Eileen Hamilton. They have our sympathy.

The Class of 1938

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