Original ‘Invaders from Mars’ Child Actor Jimmy Hunt Has Passed Away at 85

A former child actor best known for his starring role as David MacLean in the 1953 science fiction classic Invaders from Mars, Jimmy Hunt has passed away at the age of 85 this week.

Jimmy Hunt was just six years old when he began his acting career, and while he retired from Hollywood by the time he turned fourteen, Hunt had already appeared in 35 movies.

Hunt once told the Los Angeles Times of his Hollywood origins at just six years old, “I was attending school about six blocks from MGM and they came there and picked some of us out, screen tested us, and I got the part. There were kids out there who wanted to be in movies, who would give their left arm to be in movies. I couldn’t dance or sing. What I had, I guess, was the all-American look everyone was looking for – freckles and curly hair.”

In the years prior to Invaders from Mars, Jimmy Hunt starred in films including Song of Love, The Sainted Sisters, Pitfall, Family Honeymoon, Top o’ the Morning, Rusty’s Birthday, The Capture, Shadow on the Wall, Week-End with Father, and The Lone Hand, while his post-Invaders films included She Couldn’t Say No, All American, and The Young Rounders.

His IMDb bio explains, “After his acting career ended, he became a sales manager for an industrial tool and supply company in the San Fernando Valley that serviced aerospace firms.”

Hunt made his return to the screen over 30 years after the original Invaders from Mars with an appearance in Tobe Hooper’s 1986 remake of the classic film, playing a police chief.

Jimmy Hunt is survived by longtime spouse Roswitha Theresia Jager and three children.

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