Ronald Lee Hunter was an actor whose career spanned half a century, during which he performed on the stage, in films and in television.

Born in Boston, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and earned an MFA from NYU. His theater highlights included a Broadway production of Richard III starring Al Pacino, with whom he also appeared ina  Broadway revival of The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and a Lincoln Center production of Hamlet.

His features included The Seduction of Joe Tynan, Teachers, The Sentinel, and Van Wilder: Party Liaison.

He also made dozens of television appearances in series, miniseries and telefilms. His credits included the medical drama The Lazarus Syndrome, as well as Cagney and Lacey, Magnum, P.I., The Golden Girls, Knots Landing, Law & Order, Ally McBeal, ER and The Big Bang Theory.

Hunter died December 3, 2013, in Woodland Hills, California. He was 70.