 Hunter's work was not confined to fronting for others.He wrote the screenplays for over twenty films, including "Footlight Fever" (1941), "The Amazing Mr. X" (1948) and "Mastermind" (1976), as well as episodes of the television series "The Defenders" and the teleplay for the miniseries "The Blue and the Gray" (1982).A dramatization of Trumbo's life, also called "Trumbo", was released in November 2015.