Gareth Hunt

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Alan Leonard Hunt (7 February 1942 – 14 March 2007) was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.<p>Alan Leonard Hunt was born in Battersea, London in 1942; he was the nephew of actress Martita Hunt.His father was killed in the Second World War when Hunt was two years old, and he was brought up by his mother Doris and stepfather. At the age of 15, he joined the Merchant Navy. After six years, he jumped ship in New Zealand and worked in a car plant for a year before he was caught and served three months in a military prison. Hunt was then deported back to Britain and while doing a BBC design course, he had held a variety of jobs, including being a stagehand, road digger, butchers assistant and door-to-door salesman. Having had an interest in acting since his early years, he subsquently trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Following that, Hunt did rep across...