Alan Hunter Biography
Alan Hunter was one of MTV’s original five video jockeys (VJs) from 1981 to 1987 and is a host for SiriusXM Radio’s The 80s on 8 and Classic Rewind channels.
How old is Alan Hunter? – Age
He is 67 years old as of 14 February 2024. He was born in 1957 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. His real name is Alan Caldwell Hunter.
Alan Hunter Family – Education
Hunter was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from Mountain Brook High School in 1975 and received his BA in psychology from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1979. During his senior year, he landed his first television role in the ABC Movie of the Week Love’s Savage Fury, which starred Raymond Burr, Jennifer O’Neill, and Michael Paré.After working as a professional actor at the Birmingham Children’s Theatre, he relocated to New York City to attend Circle in the Square Drama School.
Alan Hunter Wife – Children
He has been married to Elizabeth Bradley Hunter since 2007. Hunter and his wife, Elizabeth, and their two children Lochran Hunter, Dylan Hunter, and Callie Hunter live in Webster Groves, Missouri, in 2022. Elizabeth Hunter is an assistant professor of drama in the performing arts department at Washington University in St. Louis.
Alan Hunter Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Alan Hunter MTV
In the late-spring of 1981, he chanced upon MTV executive Sway Pittman at an excursion in Focal Park. After a month, Tracker was tapped to join the youngster MTV, simply three weeks preceding its introduction.
MTV went on the air August 1, 1981, at 12 PM in chose markets across America. Tracker was, by specialized mess, the main VJ to show up on screen, with the words “Greetings, I’m Alan Tracker. I’ll be with you just after Imprint. We’ll cover the most recent in music news, across the nation, here on MTV Music TV.” And afterward the other unique VJs – Martha Quinn, J. J. Jackson, Nina Blackwood and Imprint Goodman – followed.
During his most memorable month with MTV, he kept his standard night work mixing drinks at New York’s Enchanted Skillet Café Supper club. At the point when a client remembered him, he decided the time had come to turn into a full-time MTV VJ. Throughout the following quite a long while Tracker’s run of the mill work week included going to shows and gatherings until the extremely early times and afterward returning to the studio at 8:00 am for an entire day of taping interviews, promotions and highlights.
Tracker was additionally vigorously associated with the WWF-MTV joint effort, facilitating The Conflict to Dole out the Retribution live exceptional on MTV with Quality Okerlund. He likewise directed behind the stage interviews for the show. Tracker likewise portrayed The Conflict Proceeds, an exceptional created by MTV that was utilized to assist with advancing Wrestlemania in Walk 1985.
As MTV turned into a predominant source for music-related content in the mid 1980s, Tracker’s big name interviews incorporated the primary MTV interviews with Madonna, Duran and U2, and furthermore included Ozzy Osbourne, Straight to the point and Moon Unit Zappa, Daryl Corridor and John Oates, Loverboy, Kasim Ruler, Crosby Stills and Nash, Kevin Bacon, Robin Williams, Dan Aykroyd, Eurythmics, Kenny Loggins, the Hallucinogenic Furs, Bounce and Doug McKenzie, Lou Reed, Joey Ramone, Andy Warhol, the Vehicles, the GoGos, the Bangles, Colin Feed and Men at Work, Kid George, Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, John Mellencamp, Hugh Hefner, Paul Stanley, Quality Simmons, Pole Stewart, Underhanded move, Billy Icon, Thomas Dolby, Joe Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Swarmed House, Aretha Franklin, Michael McDonald, Rick Springfield, Peter Wolf, Toto, Level 42, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Martin Short, Chevy Pursue and Pee-small Herman among others.
In his last MTV years, Tracker became known for his controllers and travels in such famous and spearheading MTV programming like MTV Spring Break, MTV’s Amuck in America and MTV’s Gratification Weekend with Bon Jovi in Jamaica.
Alan Hunter Career
Tracker moved on from Mountain Stream Secondary School in 1975 and acquired his BA in brain science in 1979 from Millsaps School in Jackson, Mississippi. During his senior year he got his most memorable TV acting position in the ABC Film of the Week Love’s Savage Rage, featuring Raymond Burr, Jennifer O’Neill and Michael Paré. After a spell as an expert entertainer at the Birmingham Kids’ Theater, he moved to New York City to go to the Circle in the Square show school. A short time later, he held a progression of “battling entertainer” gigs: barkeep, server, telephone replying mail orderly and a modest bunch of off-Broadway jobs, at last procuring a job in the music video for David Bowie’s “Style” for which he was paid $50 every day and got to meet Bowie. He likewise had a piece part (on cutting room floor) in the film melodic Annie.
In August 1987, following six years with the channel, Tracker left MTV as a full-time have and migrated from New York to Los Angeles. That very year, he made a trip to Russia in September as a consultant for the channel for a program called Rock in Russia. The narrative investigated the universe of awesome music in the midst of President Gorbachev’s perestroika in the Soviet Association while following Billy Joel on his spearheading show visit to Moscow and Leningrad.
In 1989, he showed up in the film White Hot. For the years he was in Los Angeles, Tracker featured in various Fox pilots, similar to HayWire and Unadulterated Madness, antecedents of the present reality programming, as well as advertisements for Levi’s Dockers and Chevrolet and various infomercials for Time-Life.
During the 1990s he moved back to his old neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, to begin a film organization called Tracker Movies, and, with his siblings, to make the multi-use diversion office, WorkPlay, named one of America’s 40 Best Settings by Glue magazine.
In 2003, Tracker Movies delivered the Foundation Grant designated short movie Johnny Flynton coordinated by Lexi Alexander, and chief created the 2006 Sundance debuted film Fantasy land featuring John Corbett, Gina Gershon and Justin Long. 2010 saw the arrival of the organization’s leader created narrative Best Most terrible Film and in 2011 the element film Lifted, which they co-delivered and in which Tracker co-stars with Run Mihok, Nicki Aycox, Ruben Studdard, Follow Adkins and in which Uriah Shelton appeared.
In the midst of his pioneering tries, in 2005 and 2006 Tracker proceeded with his work as a television have working with Reprise and Starz for their most memorable unique series Searching for Stars. He was important for a Verizon Remote public radio mission for a considerable length of time and starting around 2004 has been on Sirius XM radio’s ’80s on 8 channel, alongside two other enduring unique MTV VJs. In 2013, he and Blackwood, Goodman and Quinn co-created the book “VJ: The Turned off Experiences of MTV’s Most memorable Wave,” distributed by Atria Books.
Tracker helped to establish Birmingham’s Walkway Film Celebration, named by Time magazine as one of the main ten “Film Celebrations until the end of Us” and fills in as its load up president. He sent off the metro dissident gathering Catalyst4Birmingham and has been a basic piece of advancing the film business in the province of Alabama campaigning for regulation to make film motivations as well as the production of the Birmingham-Jefferson Film Office.
Starting around 2022, Tracker lives in Webster Forests, Missouri, with his better half, Elizabeth, and their two youngsters. Elizabeth Tracker is an associate teacher of show in the branch of performing expressions at Washington College in St. Louis.