Hunter Carson is an American actor

Actor

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

, producer

Film producer

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 and director

Film director

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Carson was born in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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, the son of actress Karen Black

Karen Black

Karen Black is an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She is noted for appearing in such films as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Great Gatsby, Rhinoceros, The Day of the Locust, Nashville, Airport 1975, and Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot...

 (née

Married and maiden names

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 Ziegler) and actor, producer, screenwriter and director L. M. Kit Carson

L. M. Kit Carson

L. M. Kit Carson is an American actor and screenwriter.He is the oldest son of Minor Lee and Louise Carson; his brothers include David Lee Carson, born 1943, and Carl Fletcher Carson, born 1945...

. He is stepson of Stephen Eckelberry

Stephen Eckelberry

-Biography:He is the founder of Blackberry Productions and the President of Productions of Big Screen Entertainment Group.-Movie career:His short film Going Home won a Chicago International Film Festival Golden Plaque. His film credits include producing Babysitter Wanted and directing Charades...

 and stepbrother of Celine Eckelberry, Stephen's daughter. He made his first national appearance in October 1976, at the age of nine months, when his mother hosted "Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...

." During her opening monologue, Black held Hunter in her arms the entire time. Carson's first acting role was in the film Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas (film)

Paris, Texas is a 1984 drama film directed by Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by L.M. Kit Carson and playwright Sam Shepard, and the distinctive musical score was composed by Ry Cooder. The cinematography is by Robby Müller....

, portraying the character of Hunter Henderson. The film Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas (film)

Paris, Texas is a 1984 drama film directed by Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by L.M. Kit Carson and playwright Sam Shepard, and the distinctive musical score was composed by Ry Cooder. The cinematography is by Robby Müller....

was adapted for the screen by his father, L. M. Kit Carson

L. M. Kit Carson

L. M. Kit Carson is an American actor and screenwriter.He is the oldest son of Minor Lee and Louise Carson; his brothers include David Lee Carson, born 1943, and Carl Fletcher Carson, born 1945...

. He played Bud Bundy in an unaired early pilot of Married... with Children

Married... with Children

Married... with Children is an American surrealistic sitcom that aired for 11 seasons that featured a dysfunctional family living in Chicago, Illinois. The show, notable for being the first prime time television series to air on Fox, ran from April 5, 1987, to June 9, 1997. The series was created...

. Hunter is also known for his role as David Gardner in the 1986 remake of Invaders from Mars

Invaders from Mars (1986 film)

Invaders from Mars is a 1986 science fiction film directed by Tobe Hooper from a screenplay by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby. It is a remake of the 1953 science fiction film Invaders from Mars, and is a reworking of that film's screenplay by Richard Blake from an original story by John Tucker Battle...

, where he co-starred with his mother Karen Black

Karen Black

Karen Black is an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She is noted for appearing in such films as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Great Gatsby, Rhinoceros, The Day of the Locust, Nashville, Airport 1975, and Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot...

. He plays a "crazy killer boyfriend" in the 2010 horror film She's Crushed

She's Crushed

She’s Crushed is a 2010 horror film directed by Patrick Johnson. Similar to themes in Fatal Attraction, She’s Crushed depicts the twisted games of love, torture, and death which lay in the hands of Tara, the disturbed intriguing girl next door.The movie was screened at the ShockerFest...

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He is a graduate of Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

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