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Linda Hunt (1945-) is an Oscar® winning American actress. Hunt portrayed the male character Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) for which she won the Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first person to win an Oscar® for portraying a character of the opposite sex. Her IMDb page shows 54 acting credits since 1976. This page will rank Linda Hunt movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.
Linda Hunt Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Linda Hunt Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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HI BRUCE: Thanks for the response.
Popeye always sticks in my mind because although he had a supporting role in an obscure 1977 film 1980s Popeye was Robin Williams’ real big screen debut.
Robin at that time was more famous to audiences over here for TV’s Mork and Mindy series [1978-82].
I have mentioned to you that in earlier decades TV performers were regarded as the “poor relations” of big screen stars and I am afrad in that respect I too was once – a snob; Heck Joel and I do have something in common after all!
So I saw Robin as a big screen interloper and had no interest in even his TV work and especially didn’t think much of Mork and Mindy. Since then I have grown to love him because of his warm screen personality and his seemingly ‘caring’ ethos expressed via his movies such as Good Will Hunting/The Fisher King and my own personal fave The Best of Times. Via the performances of Kurt Russell and Robin in that movie Reno Hightower [Kurt] and Jack Dundee [Robin] became legends as characters with my brothers and me throughtou the late 1980s and all of the 1990s
Robin’s premature death saddened me of course and I regarded the stand-up comic chemistry between him and Billy Crystal as akin to that between Griffith and Knotts in THEIR TV appearances.
Linda Hunt has never been on the Oracle of Bacon list. These are the actors on the 2020 list she has appeared with.
5 DONALD SUTHERLAND Younger and Younger (1993)
14 MAX VON SYDOW Dune (1984)
27 ALFRED MOLINA Eleni (1985)
37 JOHN CLEESE Silverado (1985)
43 CHRISTOPHER LLOYD Twenty Bucks (1993)
46 VANESSA REDGRAVE The Bostonians (1984)
49 FRANK WELKER Pocahontas (1995)
64 JOHN MALKOVICH Eleni (1985)
76 DEAN STOCKWELL Dune (1984)
92 BRAD DOURIF Dune (1984)
99 RIP TORN Yours, Mine and Ours (2005)
116 TIM ROBBINS Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
122 DENNIS QUAID Yours, Mine and Ours (2005)
130 STEVE BUSCEMI Twenty Bucks (1993)
133 MERYL STREEP She-Devil (1989)
137 LAUREN BACALL Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
147 RICHARD JENKINS Silverado (1985)
149 JEFF GOLDBLUM Silverado (1985)
152 WOODY HARRELSON SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (2018)
155 SCOTT GLENN Silverado (1985)
160 JULIA ROBERTS Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
163 CLINT HOWARD SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (2018)
171 MEL GIBSON Pocahontas (1995)
171 MEL GIBSON The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
174 DANNY GLOVER Silverado (1985)
177 KATHY BATES Dragonfly (2002)
189 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Kindergarten Cop (1990)
199 MARCELLO MASTROIANNI Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
202 FOREST WHITAKER Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
208 ROBIN WILLIAMS Popeye (1980)
209 ROSANNA ARQUETTE Silverado (1985)
217 WALLACE SHAWN The Bostonians (1984)
231 DUSTIN HOFFMAN Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
246 CHRISTIAN BALE Pocahontas (1995)
247 RICHARD E. GRANT Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
258 SOPHIA LOREN Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
267 TOM SIZEMORE The Relic (1997)
280 AUSTIN PENDLETON Rain Without Thunder (1992)
306 JOSE FERRER Dune (1984)
308 ED BEGLEY JR. She-Devil (1989)
323 BRIAN DENNEHY Silverado (1985)
324 WILLIAM H. MACY Twenty Bucks (1993)
333 DANNY AIELLO Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
359 BRENDAN FRASER Twenty Bucks (1993)
359 BRENDAN FRASER Younger and Younger (1993)
363 JEAN-PIERRE CASSEL Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
374 PATRICK STEWART Dune (1984)
409 KIM BASINGER Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
410 JEFF DANIELS Rain Without Thunder (1992)
420 KEVIN COSTNER Dragonfly (2002)
420 KEVIN COSTNER Silverado (1985)
431 ANOUK AIMEE Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
438 RUPERT EVERETT Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
441 TERI GARR Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
442 RON RIFKIN DRAGONFLY (2002)
444 MICHAEL MURPHY The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
445 JAMES GAMMON Silverado (1985)
463 JURGEN PROCHNOW Dune (1984)
483 SIGOURNEY WEAVER The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
511 DIANE BAKER Twenty Bucks (1993)
572 SALLY KELLERMAN Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
572 SALLY KELLERMAN Younger and Younger (1993)
581 VIRGINIA MADSEN Dune (1984)
601 FREDDIE JONES Dune (1984)
623 BRION JAMES Silverado (1985)
639 STEPHEN REA Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
643 JAMES WHITMORE The Relic (1997)
648 RICHARD JORDAN Dune (1984)
649 EMMA THOMPSON Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
655 KEVIN KLINE Silverado (1985)
671 SYLVIA MILES SHE-DEVIL (1989)
701 KYLE MACLACHLAN DUNE (1984)
702 PAUL DOOLEY Popeye (1980)
706 JEREMY PIVEN Twenty Bucks (1993)
731 LILI TAYLOR Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
746 MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
769 RONALD PICKUP ELENI (1985)
771 WILL FERRELL Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
792 GERALDINE JAMES IF LOOKS COULD KILL (1991)
809 SEAN YOUNG Dune (1984)
858 THANDIE NEWTON SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (2018)
878 RICHARD PORTNOW Kindergarten Cop (1990)
880 KATE NELLIGAN ELENI (1985)
891 CARROLL BAKER Kindergarten Cop (1990)
918 ANGELA BASSETT KINDERGARTEN COP (1990)
950 DAVID OGDEN-STEIRS POCAHONTAS (1995/I)
976 JOE MORTON DRAGONFLY (2002)
980 STEVE ZAHN (I) RAIN WITHOUT THUNDER (1992)
985 DONALD MOFFAT Popeye (1980)
993 FREDERIC FORREST Rain Without Thunder (1992)
Linda has appeared with 15 Oscar winners.
CHRISTIAN BALE Pocahontas (1995)
DUSTIN HOFFMAN Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
EMMA THOMPSON Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
FOREST WHITAKER Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
JESSICA TANDY The Bostonians (1984)
JOSE FERRER Dune (1984)
JULIA ROBERTS Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
KATHY BATES Dragonfly (2002)
KEVIN KLINE Silverado (1985)
KIM BASINGER Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
MERYL STREEP She-Devil (1989)
ROBIN WILLIAMS Popeye (1980)
SOPHIA LOREN Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
TIM ROBBINS Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
VANESSA REDGRAVE The Bostonians (1984)
Hey Dan. Thanks for sharing these trivia lists. Both lists are pretty short compared to most of your others. Looks like Mel Gibson is her most frequent Oracle co-star. 15 Oscar winning co-stars is low but actually a good percentage when looking at her small amount of movies. Good stuff as always.
Great UMR Page
Thank you Mike. I see Bob beat you to the punch and commented first.
I was sleeping…oh well
Hey Mike…sleep is overrated….lol.
Linda who first came to fame as Mrs Holly Oxheart in 1980’s Popeye has been acting for nearly half-a-century now and has built up a substantial multi-medium career with my sources crediting her with 29 movies overall- 21 of which are comprehensively covered above/16 television productions/7 theatrical plays and 6 video games.
She has a reported current net worth of $12 million and IMDB credits her with 11 acting awards and 6 nominations – good trivia above from WH about the young Linda playing a male. She has nothing new in the pipeline at present but at 76 is still going strong in NCIS: Los Angeles in which in one of the leading roles she has been in a massive 279 episodes from 2009 until the present time.
I have seen her in several episodes of that series but I most liked her in Arnie’ 1990 Kindergarten Cop and the physical contrast between the fierce but kindly diminutive Linda as headmistress Miss Schlowski scolding Big Arnie just added to the fun.
The casting people were apparently initially thinking of putting DeVito in the role of Arnie’s undercover cop Kimble who was pretending to be a teacher [heck ANYBODY could pass as one of those -even yours truly!] but producer Ivan Reltman vetoed the idea arguing that Danny and Linda in the same movie might be overkill.
Actually I watched the film with one of my mates at the time and he tried to wind me up with smart *** comments like “How little she looks beside Arnie and to think she probably would have towered above Alan Ladd!”
Hey Bob. Thanks for the comments on Linda Hunt. I have seen Popeye a few times, but I do not remember her role at all. Thanks for sharing the information on the rest of her career. She is one of the most popular characters in her tv show….which I admit I have never seen. Her net worth is preyyy impressive for sure. I liked her in Kindergarten Coo as well….but my favorite Hunt movie role is in Silverado. Good stuff as always.