Trivia

After six years in the Merchant Navy, he jumped ship in New Zealand and worked in a car plant for a year. He was eventually caught and spent three months in military detention, before being repatriated back to Britain. There, he took a course in design at the BBC, while making money doing various jobs, ranging from stage hand to butcher, hairdresser to door-to-door salesman.

He joined the merchant navy when he was 15, and spent six years at sea. Then he began to study acting, and appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He first gained widespread notice for playing ambitious footman Frederick Norton in "Upstairs, Downstairs".

Famous for his Nescafe coffee television commercials in which he shook coffee beans in his hands.

Began failing in health in 1999 after suffering a heart attack.

His father worked as a coal man and was killed during World War II when Hunt was two years old.

Played Footman Frederick Norton on the popular Brit series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971) and starred as Mike Gambit in The New Avengers (1976), joining Patrick Macnee and Joanna Lumley.

An avid golfer.

Studied acting for two and a half years at Webber-Douglas.

He trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, whose alumni include Terence Stamp, Nicholas Courtney, Julia Ormond, Rupert Friend, Angela Lansbury, Matthew Goode, Hugh Bonneville, Daniel Hunt, Minnie Driver and Julian Fellowes.

His father, Leonard Cecil James Hunt, b. 15 Dec 1910, was killed on 20 Feb 1944 at Falcon Road Goods Yard, Battersea, London. This was the era of the 'Baby Blitz', Operation Steinbock, which ran from January to May 1944. Gareth Hunt was 1 year old.

Nephew of actress Martita Hunt.