Gordon Hunt (director)

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Gordon Hunt is an actor, voice actor, director of stage, film, and voiceover. He is the father of actress Helen Hunt, from his marriage to photographer Jane Elizabeth Novis; they later divorced.

Hunt was born in 1929 to Gertrude Ophüls and George Smith Hunt, an industrial designer.^[1] He is currently married to voice actress B.J. Ward.

Hunt is more prominent in the voiceover forum, where he is a freelance director for multiple animated productions and video games; he was a former voice director for Hanna-Barbera. As a voice actor, he voiced the character of Wally in the animated adaptation of the comic strip Dilbert. He often works alongside voice director Kris Zimmerman; she had studied under him and learned the profession from Hunt before becoming a voice director herself.