Peter R. Hunt (born March 11, 1925 in London - died August 14, 2002) was a famed and innovative English film editor unafraid to challenge conventional wisdom creating or at least enhancing much of the exciting action in the early James Bond films. He has performed various other roles on movie sets having begun in the industry as "Clapper-boy" and ending as a respected and beloved director.
He became justly famous for his novel techniques using quick cutting, allowing camera swings during action and inserts interleaving other elements while working as editor on the first three Bonds.
Wanting to direct from the time he was a boy, he then acted as second unit or action unit director until his directorial debut, the sixth James Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Hunt also worked with Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli on the 1963 Bob Hope film Call Me Bwana, and with Saltzman and a few other Bond veterans on the non-Eon thriller The IPCRESS File. Call Me Bwana is the only film produced by the James Bond production company EON Productions that is not a Bond film.
Hunt also directed some episodes of the 1971 British television series, The Persuaders!, which starred future James Bond Roger Moore, and Tony Curtis.
Studied violin at the London College of Music and the history of art at the University of Rome before becoming a clapper-boy at Denham Studios in 1947.
Developed a style he called "crash cutting" for Dr. No (1962).
Adopted a son.
Survived by adopted son, Nicholas Kourtis.
