I cannot begin to express how touching it was for you to make this video. Although I had known his story I believe it's often forgotten how good his performance as Captain Pike was. Thank you so much.
Dear TriAngulum Audio Studios, What a SYNCHRONOUS CONVERGENCE!!! Thank You, for this MAGNIFICENT Story of my life. Shall be uploaded on Facebook. ~Jeffrey Hunter, July 7, 2019
Hunter does have one other sort of 'Star Trek' credit, in 'It's only a paper moon' Nog and Vic are watching 'The Searchers' and he briefly appears on screen. Had Jeffrey Hunter returned however the whole Vulcan race might have been different. In an interview Nimoy stated that he made Spock enthusiastic and brash to counter Hunter's more thoughtful and understated performance. Once Shatner came in with his more exuberant performance he played Spock as more detached, which then encouraged Gene to give Spock, and the Vulcans, the cold logical demeanour Marjel Barret's Number One had in 'The Cage'
Jeffrey Hunter starred in "Hell To Eternity" with George Takei. It's a WWll movie based on Guy Gabaldon's life. So there is a Star Trek connection there.
If Hunter had stayed with Star Trek, he might still be alive today (he wouldn't have been working on the film that mortally wounded him).... Unfortunately none of us humans get to see the future when we make our decisions. :(
One day we could go back in time and perhaps give him a side role instead or maybe he could have been if the times changed he could have been Admiral Pike in the original star trek
Great Video thank you. Always liked Jeff Hunter and like you I think he would have made a superb permanent Capt Through the rest of the Star Trek run and who knows if he had perhaps he would still be with us today. Love Anson Mounts portrayal and would love him to carry on Capt Pikes adventures.
that's so sad, he died as Star Trek ended it's 3 year run. I bet he might've been invited back to Trek had he lived. not as Pike but maybe something like playing the Starfleet Commander in STIII
frictionRx5 If it's of any importance, I live near Van Nuys, Calif. Every week, I go past the Valley Presbyterian Hospital where he passed away. 2019, being the 50th year of it, I get silent for him and pray for the patients there.
This was truly a wonderful and heartfelt video. A timely tribute to a fine actor. How amazing would it have been to see him return in an episode with Kirk.
That was a great video man. I had no idea he passed so young. I always thought Star Trek lucked out with most of it's principal actors surviving into their 80's
Thank you for posting this video. As I said in my previous comment, not many people know about Jeffrey Hunter and the career he had, nor do they know about what happened to him.
Please do more of these actor biographies. While I was aware of the sad circumstances surrounding his death, I did not know some of the other things you mentioned. Good stuff.
Wow, that was deep. I had always thought that he was too busy to take up the role when they began filming again. No idea that his loved ones were sticking their oar in. I'm rather stunned by the irony of the parallels in his real life and Pike's life in The Menagerie.
Ironically, had his wife not meddled and he stayed on as Captain Pike, he'd have never suffered the accident on set that apparently contributed to his untimely death (because he would not have been there in the first place) and he might well have lived into the 21st century.
That's for sure. With his rugged good looks and acting talent he could have gone far had he never had that accident. Dick York (the first Darren on Bewitched) had similar potential and suffered a similar fate a mere year pr so earlier. Life can be so unfair.
I liked Jeffrey Hunter, he played a very strong Captain and I'm sorry we didn't at least get one full season of him. Kirk has always been a favorite but the captain I found most interesting was Lorca...ole boy nuttier than a fruit cake and I love it!
I actually see one Hunter film fairly often. I watch the Starz Western Channel quite a bit and the often show The True Story of Jesse James (it really isn't) where he plays Frank James. He worked well as the solid older brother to Robert Wagner's more brash Jesse. I've seen bits and pieces of The Searchers, but it never really held my interest despite its reputation among westerns. I've long known of Hunter's untimely death, but never looked into the circumstances. Had he stayed on Star Trek, it appears they may have been going for a "big four" of Pike/Boyce/Spock/Number 1 instead of the "big three" we got with Kirk/Spock/McCoy.
Considering that he would not have been on that set and had the concussion, then later haemorrhaging; one can only speculate. From the sounds of it, he probably would’ve done good in the series had he stayed on. The series ended the same year he died, and he most likely would be on a different set than when his accident occurred. That is had he stayed on with Star Trek. But we’ll never know.
In a sense, I grow up with this actor; every easter, here in Argentina, "King of Kings" was on TV, and with a bunch of other religion themed movies there was nothing else... so, every year it was watching and re watching this movie. I watched him in other movies on TV and the two part episodes of Star Trek. But those days series and movies were something else, people really get in touch with the actors and characters and episodes like that no one get out while the last episode of "the Fugitive" was aired weren't too strange!
I know it's the animated series but Captain April is featured as the first Captain of the Enterprise and in recent years has been determined to be Canon
Think of it this way, if your first to make a comment on my video, your first, if someone comes along 10 years later and says they're first to comment, does that make them the first to comment? NO... So the FIRST ON SCREEN Captain of the Enterprise was Pike!
An interesting thing I read is that Jeffery Hunter's son Christopher actually praised Anson Mount for being cast as Pike as he said that Mount really has the qualities that you need in Pike and even acknowledged that the actor resembles his father.
All videos will have a dislike or 2, My percentage of Likes to Dislikes though is over 99% so It doesnt mean much to me... People do that out of jealousy... They watch the video and want to do what Im doing but dont have the skills or ability to do so... So they lash out and do something like that. it doesnt really bother me at all... Most of us know some people have skills in one area while others have them in another area... I simply looks at the likes and am humbled by the fact anyone WANTS to listen to me in the first place :)
I've always wondered how the show would have gone with Captain Pike instead of Kirk. Jeffrey Hunter was great! Do you know why he didn't appear in the two parter? Or was he asked about Star Trek during or after its three seasons? With modern technology they could do a season with a CGI Jeffrey Hunter! I also wonder what the show would have been like if Lloyd Bridges or Jack Lord had agreed to take it on. Personally I think Jack Lord would have been awesome. Hail David!
I wonder what Hunter's relationship with the rest of the cast would have been, considering how contentious the others were with Shatner. Would George Takei view him in the same manner?
Jeffery hunter was good for the pilot episode ( the cage ) but he was to 1950s in his acting, always angry, fearless of just about anything and always yelling, overdamding in his staring role as pike
I think he would have been good in the role. I knew of his injuries and how he died. But I always heard he didn't come back because he was filming The Searchers with John Wayne. I looked that movie up and it was 1957 though. Doh!
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A Jeffrey Hunter Capt. Pike would certainly had made some episodes interesting. I enjoyed the short run comic series featuring Pike and crew. Often makes you wonder what if? Of all the other actors considered for the role, I really just can't see Lloyd Bridges or Jack Lord doing very well in the role. I think Pike would have brought a more militant attitude similar to Sheridan vs Sinclair on Bab 5. As much as I like Hunter/Pike, I really can't see him pulling off Trouble With Tribbles with the same humor as Shatner.
I think if he had remained Captain for TOS, the show would have been vastly different than the one we know now. Hunter and Shatner were night and day, that isn't to say one was better than the other, but just that they were clearly very different actors, and their characters were also very different. Hunter's Pike always carried more somber emotional depth than Shatner's more classic cowboy adventurer. I love both characters, but it would have drastically changed the dynamic of the show, and I honestly couldn't tell if TOS would have been as successful because the "triumvirate" of Spock, Kirk, and Bones, likely would have been a rather different dynamic, and would it have worked well in balance? I'm not sure. But it's alot of what-ifs. Still though, I think everything for Star Trek worked out the way it was meant to, because if we didn't have The Cage and TOS and all the changes, we wouldn't have been able to get Pike onto Discovery to explore the character in the modern storytelling format, and we certainly wouldn't have had all this call for a Pike show. I like to think that had Jeffrey Hunter lived and still been alive today, he would have been proud of his part in Trek history and paving the way for the next generation of actors taking on the role of Pike. After all, Anson Mount did say that Hunter's son Chris came to Comic Con 2018 to tell Anson that he thought his father would have been proud of his casting, and I heard Chris talking about his on a podcast interview where he expressed excitement in seeing Anson as Pike. Also, you mentioned that each incarnation of Pike being different, and that's true, each one has its own style, but I just want to say that in "If Memory Serves", Anson Mount was seriously channeling Jeffrey Hunter in so many of those scenes. Disco's Pike always had a lighter air about him, but whenever anything was related to Talos, it's like a weight is placed back onto his shoulders and you can really see the Jeffrey Hunter in Anson's performance, that same emotion, that same guilt, that same weariness and tiredness that we saw back in The Cage. We have been really lucky in Trek to have had all these amazing Pike actors, Jeffrey, Anson, and Bruce Greenwood all really made their mark.
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The problem with Hunter having continued in the part is that with his death, it is unlikely that there would have been a revival of the Franchise and the movies being made. They would have had to replace the captain with another actor and I believe that this might have caused the franchise to die.
The other issue is that Nimoy found it hard to work with him. Might just be a style of acting, because Pike was played a little bit angsty. Nimoy found it more difficult to develop chemistry, and found Shatner was easier to work with. It would have been interesting.
In all my research and reading over the years Ive NEVER heard that before... Could you please site your source as it doesnt really make much sense... Nimoy at the time of the cage was not a main actor, number one was... So why gene would care or he would even say that to gene makes little sense... So if it is true, ill be excited to read your source...
No the First ON SCREEN Captain was Jeffrey Hunters Christopher Pike... Originally the Character was to be named April but that changed quickly before Hunter was cast... Later the name was used in an animated episode...
It's from the books, not sure if its canon, but still an interesting read, i highly recomend it, its called "Star Trek, Best Destiny" by Diane Carey, hence why i thought of it lol
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios that's fair enough, it was the "first captain" part of the title to this video that made me think of it lol... keep up the great work 😁😁😁
One thing I always respected Gene Roddenberry for was including Jeffry Hunter in Trek Cannon. Making Pike a real part of the Enterprise backstory. They could have just pretended the first captain never existed. Instead he became just as well known to fans as Kirk, Spock, and Bones.
It was a great thing sure, but it wasn't out of some respect for Jeffrey Hunter or the Character of Pike, it was simply out of necessity. Star Trek was behind on it's episode quota and needed time to finish more scripts and so Gene threw the Menagerie Together! That's all it was!
Im a huge fan, and knew about a LOT of the Trek Actors histories etc... Just not Hunter, somehow it slipped out of my "want to know" category. And the measure of a fan doesnt come from the research done in to the personal life of actors on the TV Show...
What happen to Archer? Wasn't he the FIRST Captain of the Enterprise, or better yet what was the First WOMAN on the NX-02 USS Columbia First Woman Mind You? And last Star Trek Discovery, is getting kinda lame since CBS will not aired on PRIMETIME Have to wait when it comes out On DVD. And you forgot to mention of his Cameo in the Longest Day 1961
Archer was the first captain IN UNIVERSE... But the first Captain EVER in REAL LIFE was Hunter... And Hunter was in many things, this was just an over view so not everything is going to be mentioned! Especially a cameo! And Im totally fine with it not airing on Cable! Good for them embracing the future and so glad it's working out so well for them!
I agree with you, Jeffrey Hunter's Captain Pike would have been excellent in Star Trek. Rest in Peace Jeffrey, you are missed.
I cannot begin to express how touching it was for you to make this video. Although I had known his story I believe it's often forgotten how good his performance as Captain Pike was. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for your kind words, they mean a lot :)
What a wonderful epitaph for those great actor. Thank you so much 💐
Dear TriAngulum Audio Studios, What a SYNCHRONOUS CONVERGENCE!!! Thank You, for this MAGNIFICENT Story of my life. Shall be uploaded on Facebook. ~Jeffrey Hunter, July 7, 2019
Hunter does have one other sort of 'Star Trek' credit, in 'It's only a paper moon' Nog and Vic are watching 'The Searchers' and he briefly appears on screen.
Had Jeffrey Hunter returned however the whole Vulcan race might have been different. In an interview Nimoy stated that he made Spock enthusiastic and brash to counter Hunter's more thoughtful and understated performance. Once Shatner came in with his more exuberant performance he played Spock as more detached, which then encouraged Gene to give Spock, and the Vulcans, the cold logical demeanour Marjel Barret's Number One had in 'The Cage'
Jeffrey Hunter starred in "Hell To Eternity" with George Takei. It's a WWll movie based on Guy Gabaldon's life. So there is a Star Trek connection there.
Well done..
Thank you!
Thank you that was beautifully done not enough is said about Jeffrey Hunter the true captain of the Enterprise
Thank you very much :)
I know this videos is a year old, but the reason I'm watching it because I saw video on Captain Pike. Hunter would have been awesome.
A great but sad video. His brief time on trek will mean he will not be forgotten.
Thank you so much and I agree :)
My two favorite film roles of Hunter’s was Hell to Eternity and his Supporting Actor role in The Searchers with John Wayne.
that was a great homage to that actor! Sad, but you ended it on a high note!
Keep up the great work sir!
Yes it was VERY sad... And thank you!
I agree he was a great actor. Rest in peace. Jeffrey Hunter
If Hunter had stayed with Star Trek, he might still be alive today (he wouldn't have been working on the film that mortally wounded him).... Unfortunately none of us humans get to see the future when we make our decisions. :(
Yes, I've been trying to invent a crystal balls that works, but sadly all I get is fuzz :(
One day we could go back in time and perhaps give him a side role instead or maybe he could have been if the times changed he could have been Admiral Pike in the original star trek
He had the stage presence, command to be an effective captain. Would have been interesting to see him play this out over 4 seasons.
Great Video thank you. Always liked Jeff Hunter and like you I think he would have made a superb permanent Capt Through the rest of the Star Trek run and who knows if he had perhaps he would still be with us today. Love Anson Mounts portrayal and would love him to carry on Capt Pikes adventures.
You're welcome and thank you for the support :) And like you, I hope Mount DOES carry on Pikes Adventures...
that's so sad, he died as Star Trek ended it's 3 year run.
I bet he might've been invited back to Trek had he lived. not as Pike but maybe something like playing the Starfleet Commander in STIII
Yes I was VERY surprised and saddened to discover his tragic fate :( And all these decades I had no clue...
frictionRx5 If it's of any importance, I live near Van Nuys, Calif. Every week, I go past the Valley Presbyterian Hospital where he passed away. 2019, being the 50th year of it, I get silent for him and pray for the patients there.
This was truly a wonderful and heartfelt video. A timely tribute to a fine actor. How amazing would it have been to see him return in an episode with Kirk.
Thank you Paul! And yes, he could have been in a movie or 2!
He reminds me of buster crab from buck rogers or those old flash Gordon serials from the post war era
Both very handsome men!
That was a great video man. I had no idea he passed so young.
I always thought Star Trek lucked out with most of it's principal actors surviving into their 80's
Thank you so much! And neither did I! it was quite shocking...
Thank you for posting this video. As I said in my previous comment, not many people know about Jeffrey Hunter and the career he had, nor do they know about what happened to him.
You are VERY welcome and I feel honored to be able to keep his memory alive!
Please do more of these actor biographies. While I was aware of the sad circumstances surrounding his death, I did not know some of the other things you mentioned. Good stuff.
Thank you so much! I really wasnt sure HOW people would react to me doing biographies, but so far the response has been a positive one :)
"But i have to _feel_ a story to tell it." I love you.
:) Thank you so much, was just being honest :)
I really thought you would known the story of Hunter. A very kind telling of his life.
Nope even I have things to yet learn :P And thank you :)
Oh man, I did not know that. Actually hurt me a bit.
Had he continued to play Christopher Pike, that might not have happened. A little bit tragic.
Indeed it is VERY tragic :(
Fantastic video, you have a strength for this style of content.
Thank you so much:)
Wow, that was deep. I had always thought that he was too busy to take up the role when they began filming again. No idea that his loved ones were sticking their oar in.
I'm rather stunned by the irony of the parallels in his real life and Pike's life in The Menagerie.
Thank you, and yes it's VERY ironic right?
That was heartfelt and beautiful.
Thank you so much!
Ironically, had his wife not meddled and he stayed on as Captain Pike, he'd have never suffered the accident on set that apparently contributed to his untimely death (because he would not have been there in the first place) and he might well have lived into the 21st century.
It's funny how life works out or ends sometimes... Tragic though!
That's for sure. With his rugged good looks and acting talent he could have gone far had he never had that accident. Dick York (the first Darren on Bewitched) had similar potential and suffered a similar fate a mere year pr so earlier. Life can be so unfair.
Oh I know! it's VERY VERY sad :(
Captain Pike played by Hunter was a great character...
I liked Jeffrey Hunter, he played a very strong Captain and I'm sorry we didn't at least get one full season of him. Kirk has always been a favorite but the captain I found most interesting was Lorca...ole boy nuttier than a fruit cake and I love it!
Always good to remember those who came before.
100% Agree!
I actually see one Hunter film fairly often. I watch the Starz Western Channel quite a bit and the often show The True Story of Jesse James (it really isn't) where he plays Frank James. He worked well as the solid older brother to Robert Wagner's more brash Jesse. I've seen bits and pieces of The Searchers, but it never really held my interest despite its reputation among westerns.
I've long known of Hunter's untimely death, but never looked into the circumstances. Had he stayed on Star Trek, it appears they may have been going for a "big four" of Pike/Boyce/Spock/Number 1 instead of the "big three" we got with Kirk/Spock/McCoy.
I wonder how far he might've gone had his yapping shrew of a wife been banned from the studio.
He might have lived far in to the future...
Considering that he would not have been on that set and had the concussion, then later haemorrhaging; one can only speculate. From the sounds of it, he probably would’ve done good in the series had he stayed on. The series ended the same year he died, and he most likely would be on a different set than when his accident occurred. That is had he stayed on with Star Trek. But we’ll never know.
In a sense, I grow up with this actor; every easter, here in Argentina, "King of Kings" was on TV, and with a bunch of other religion themed movies there was nothing else... so, every year it was watching and re watching this movie. I watched him in other movies on TV and the two part episodes of Star Trek. But those days series and movies were something else, people really get in touch with the actors and characters and episodes like that no one get out while the last episode of "the Fugitive" was aired weren't too strange!
Thank you for such a heartfelt bio.
Do you think you could do a bio on Susan Oliver?
I wasnt sure how people would react to this type of Episode! SO far so good! And yes Ill add her to the list!
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios - These bios are just awesome man. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Hope you have a wonderful one!
Thank you! :)
oh Susan Oliver, she put Jeffrey Hunter in a cage in Star Trek and Roddy McDowall in a cage in Twilight Zone
People Are Alike ALL Over :P
I know it's the animated series but Captain April is featured as the first Captain of the Enterprise and in recent years has been determined to be Canon
As the video says, this is the first ON SCREEN Captain of the Enterprise...
The animated series was on screen but not live action
YES but the animated series came AFTER the Original Series, THUS Pike is the FIRST ON SCREEN Captain of the Enterprise...
Think of it this way, if your first to make a comment on my video, your first, if someone comes along 10 years later and says they're first to comment, does that make them the first to comment? NO... So the FIRST ON SCREEN Captain of the Enterprise was Pike!
An interesting thing I read is that Jeffery Hunter's son Christopher actually praised Anson Mount for being cast as Pike as he said that Mount really has the qualities that you need in Pike and even acknowledged that the actor resembles his father.
Indeed he did!
Did also play the version of pike in and forgive me I know this isn't what is called the paraplegic chair or was that another actor
No that was a different actor!
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios who was it and whatever happened to him
His name was Sean Kinney, he's still alive, played Lt Depaul, the extra always around at bridge stations on TOS...
At 3:05- If he was in the US Navy, why is he wearing a British navy hat?
Because the picture is from a movie he was in!
A great tribute
Thank you!
But what will Willlam Shatner do without Star Trek
Shatner would have found his way here even as a villainous guest star.
I always wonder who would put a dislike on something like this. Because a lot of people do not know about Jeffrey Hunter.
All videos will have a dislike or 2, My percentage of Likes to Dislikes though is over 99% so It doesnt mean much to me... People do that out of jealousy... They watch the video and want to do what Im doing but dont have the skills or ability to do so... So they lash out and do something like that. it doesnt really bother me at all... Most of us know some people have skills in one area while others have them in another area... I simply looks at the likes and am humbled by the fact anyone WANTS to listen to me in the first place :)
Probably that redshirt that was mentioned in the pilot that was killed
LOL maybe :P
Most people don't even remember Hunter. As some still haven't seen the original pilot.
Well I hope this video helps relieve that problem :)
It would be awesome if they included the pilot in a DVD or Blu-ray release. He deserves some time.
The original pilot is included in my remastered version of TOS, though I believe it is a special feature...
I still think DSC's Pike is a good tribute to Hunter.
Oh yes I agree! Im one of those Chomping at the bit fans for a Pike Series :)
So was that actually him in the menagerie in the wheelchair? Or someone else?
No, that was Sean Kinney, he's still alive, played Lt Depaul, the extra always around at bridge stations on TOS...
Interesting thank you! I always assumed it was hunter.
You're very welcome! but sadly no...
He played a Starfleet captain and Jesus, that is a very varied career.
I know right? :)
I'm Captain Jesus H. Christ, of the federation starship (insert random biblical city here)
I've always wondered how the show would have gone with Captain Pike instead of Kirk. Jeffrey Hunter was great! Do you know why he didn't appear in the two parter? Or was he asked about Star Trek during or after its three seasons? With modern technology they could do a season with a CGI Jeffrey Hunter! I also wonder what the show would have been like if Lloyd Bridges or Jack Lord had agreed to take it on. Personally I think Jack Lord would have been awesome. Hail David!
I wonder what Hunter's relationship with the rest of the cast would have been, considering how contentious the others were with Shatner. Would George Takei view him in the same manner?
Jeffery hunter was good for the pilot episode ( the cage ) but he was to 1950s in his acting, always angry, fearless of just about anything and always yelling, overdamding in his staring role as pike
Mr Spock....there seems to be something on Uranus....!!
I think he would have been good in the role. I knew of his injuries and how he died. But I always heard he didn't come back because he was filming The Searchers with John Wayne. I looked that movie up and it was 1957 though. Doh!
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A Jeffrey Hunter Capt. Pike would certainly had made some episodes interesting. I enjoyed the short run comic series featuring Pike and crew. Often makes you wonder what if? Of all the other actors considered for the role, I really just can't see Lloyd Bridges or Jack Lord doing very well in the role. I think Pike would have brought a more militant attitude similar to Sheridan vs Sinclair on Bab 5. As much as I like Hunter/Pike, I really can't see him pulling off Trouble With Tribbles with the same humor as Shatner.
I think if he had remained Captain for TOS, the show would have been vastly different than the one we know now. Hunter and Shatner were night and day, that isn't to say one was better than the other, but just that they were clearly very different actors, and their characters were also very different. Hunter's Pike always carried more somber emotional depth than Shatner's more classic cowboy adventurer. I love both characters, but it would have drastically changed the dynamic of the show, and I honestly couldn't tell if TOS would have been as successful because the "triumvirate" of Spock, Kirk, and Bones, likely would have been a rather different dynamic, and would it have worked well in balance? I'm not sure. But it's alot of what-ifs.
Still though, I think everything for Star Trek worked out the way it was meant to, because if we didn't have The Cage and TOS and all the changes, we wouldn't have been able to get Pike onto Discovery to explore the character in the modern storytelling format, and we certainly wouldn't have had all this call for a Pike show.
I like to think that had Jeffrey Hunter lived and still been alive today, he would have been proud of his part in Trek history and paving the way for the next generation of actors taking on the role of Pike. After all, Anson Mount did say that Hunter's son Chris came to Comic Con 2018 to tell Anson that he thought his father would have been proud of his casting, and I heard Chris talking about his on a podcast interview where he expressed excitement in seeing Anson as Pike.
Also, you mentioned that each incarnation of Pike being different, and that's true, each one has its own style, but I just want to say that in "If Memory Serves", Anson Mount was seriously channeling Jeffrey Hunter in so many of those scenes. Disco's Pike always had a lighter air about him, but whenever anything was related to Talos, it's like a weight is placed back onto his shoulders and you can really see the Jeffrey Hunter in Anson's performance, that same emotion, that same guilt, that same weariness and tiredness that we saw back in The Cage.
We have been really lucky in Trek to have had all these amazing Pike actors, Jeffrey, Anson, and Bruce Greenwood all really made their mark.
I never understood why the Ancient Roman general Marcus Antonius is called Mark Anthony in English-speaking countries.
Why the need to anglicize the name?
For that you would have to ask the inventors of the English Language :P
his wife interference cost him BIG!
Sad but true...
The problem with Hunter having continued in the part is that with his death, it is unlikely that there would have been a revival of the Franchise and the movies being made. They would have had to replace the captain with another actor and I believe that this might have caused the franchise to die.
Except if he had done Star Trek he wouldnt have been involved in the accident that caused his death...
As far as I'm concerned Jeffrey Hunter is and always will be Cpt. Christopher Pike.
The other issue is that Nimoy found it hard to work with him. Might just be a style of acting, because Pike was played a little bit angsty. Nimoy found it more difficult to develop chemistry, and found Shatner was easier to work with. It would have been interesting.
In all my research and reading over the years Ive NEVER heard that before... Could you please site your source as it doesnt really make much sense... Nimoy at the time of the cage was not a main actor, number one was... So why gene would care or he would even say that to gene makes little sense... So if it is true, ill be excited to read your source...
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios Star Trek Memories. Now it is second hand Nimoy talking with Shatner. And maybe Shatner's memory is faulty.
Im HUGE fan of that book, read it many times and dont ever recall Shatner or Nimoy saying that... Ill have to check it out and get back to you!
I dont see anywhere were it says that... Do you have any idea where abouts it is in the book?
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios When he was discussing The Cage. I'd have to go dig it up.
DIED AT 42 so awful RIP Captain
Wasnt Robert April the first
No the First ON SCREEN Captain was Jeffrey Hunters Christopher Pike... Originally the Character was to be named April but that changed quickly before Hunter was cast... Later the name was used in an animated episode...
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios yeah.
IMHO Jeffrey Hunter would have lent Star Trek far more legitimacy to non-scifi folk than Shatner's quirky portrayal...
Shatner brought real authority, wit and playfulness, Hunter appeared to be more strait laced and less charming.
i wished he had stayed..his life would have been better..he would not have been in Spain making b movies he was awesome as Captain Pike and so HOT
Tbh I thought this guy was a better Cpt then William Shatner
This guy Jeffrey Hunter had t be one of the most handsome Hollywood actors of all time. I would love to hear what women think about my statement.
As soon as i saw first captain i thought of Robert April, perhaps one day, sorry buddy
LOL dont be sorry, but I dont know how you'd get April out of Jeffrey Hunter Bio... :P
It's from the books, not sure if its canon, but still an interesting read, i highly recomend it, its called "Star Trek, Best Destiny" by Diane Carey, hence why i thought of it lol
No novels are ever canon, but I love Best Destiny!
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios that's fair enough, it was the "first captain" part of the title to this video that made me think of it lol... keep up the great work 😁😁😁
Thank you very much, and Ill try :)
One thing I always respected Gene Roddenberry for was including Jeffry Hunter in Trek Cannon. Making Pike a real part of the Enterprise backstory. They could have just pretended the first captain never existed. Instead he became just as well known to fans as Kirk, Spock, and Bones.
It was a great thing sure, but it wasn't out of some respect for Jeffrey Hunter or the Character of Pike, it was simply out of necessity. Star Trek was behind on it's episode quota and needed time to finish more scripts and so Gene threw the Menagerie Together! That's all it was!
Youre a fan but you didnt know what happened to Jeffrey Hunter.... I must be a weird fan because I have read on up on all of the actors years ago.
Im a huge fan, and knew about a LOT of the Trek Actors histories etc... Just not Hunter, somehow it slipped out of my "want to know" category. And the measure of a fan doesnt come from the research done in to the personal life of actors on the TV Show...
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LOL Yeah.... Ill keep that in mind :P LOL
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What Shatner says cannot ever be accepted without additional verification. I would ignore what he said about Hunter.
That isnt true! Besides, what Shatner says in this video is confirmed by at least 2 other sources!
it was a good job Hunter didn't do more than one....he couldn't have Hammed it up for 3 seasons like Shitner..............
I don’t like TOS...... I can hear the firing squad assemble
Hear? I can see them assembling... Im leading :P
Ready, set phasers (or lasers if it's the pilot)to kill, fire on the blasphemer!
This is a good video. But not mentioning the Searchers is an unforgivable omission.
What a ridiculous comment to make!
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios no, a ridiculous comment would how awesome it is smear peanut butter on hang gliders. This is just a minor criticism.
Nope, it's ridiculous to make either of those comments on a biography/ tribute video, trust me it is...
What happen to Archer? Wasn't he the FIRST Captain of the Enterprise, or better yet what was the First WOMAN on the NX-02 USS Columbia First Woman Mind You? And last Star Trek Discovery, is getting kinda lame since CBS will not aired on PRIMETIME Have to wait when it comes out On DVD. And you forgot to mention of his Cameo in the Longest Day 1961
Archer was the first captain IN UNIVERSE... But the first Captain EVER in REAL LIFE was Hunter... And Hunter was in many things, this was just an over view so not everything is going to be mentioned! Especially a cameo! And Im totally fine with it not airing on Cable! Good for them embracing the future and so glad it's working out so well for them!
Wouldn't he have to be alive to be a 'living legend'?
THATS what you have to say on a tragic tribute biography video? That? The Character he created is a living legend BTW...
3rd Captain! Archer, April, and Pike!
First On Screen Captain! Archer (2000) April (1975) Pike (1964) And the video is quite clear about that...
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