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Australian audiences loved to see themselves in the laconic and gruff characters with soft hearts that they played, Turnour said. Hunter was born Feb. He was the son of a struggling country pub owner who eventually went broke.

He began building his career in the s in Australian television crime dramas in which he specialized as hard characters who were usually policemen or criminals. A gregarious hard drinker with an endearing knack of recalling names of people who had expected to be forgotten, Hunter was universally popular in the movie industry in which he became a stalwart with few peers.

He plays the legendary Australian racehorse trainer Bart Cummings and a cameo role in two movies to be screened later this year. Real Estate News. Hot Property. About Us. There was always going to be a lot of larrikinism going on. And that went right through until two weekends ago, when I flew down to see him," Field said yesterday. Wincer said Hunter had shown no sign of illness when The Cup was shot last year. Hunter travelled to the set from his northwest Victorian property.

But Hunter's ex-wife Rhoda Roberts believes Hunter's drinking habits have been somewhat overstated.