Career
His only recurring role was in 1959 as "Mickey" in three episodes of the children"s adventure series, Sky King, with Kirby Grant and Gloria Winters. A native of Los Angeles, California, Hunley appeared in his first television role in the episode "Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid" on December 18, 1955 of the anthology series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. On January 26, 1957, he was cast as Billy, the Boy on a Train, in another Alfred Hitchcock episode, "The Manacled".
Meanwhile, he appeared in two Jack Webb series on National Broadcasting Company in 1956, Dragnet and Noah"s Arkansas
In the latter he played Danny Brown in the episode "The Reluctant Reindeer". Hunley also played the boy called "Trap" in 1956 in Ronald West. Reagan"s Columbia Broadcasting System anthology series, General Electric Theater.
In 1957, he was cast as Peter in the episode "Village of Fear" of Dick Powell"s Zane Grey Theatre, a western anthology series also on Columbia Broadcasting System. He appeared as Roy in the episode "The Goose" of Columbia Broadcasting System"s Lassie. He appeared as the child Michael in the 1957 film The Unholy Wife, starring Diana Dors and Rod Steiger.
In 1958, Hunley played the role of Chris Conway in the episode "To Become a Manitoba" of the National Broadcasting Company western series, Cimarron City, with George Montgomery and John Smith.
In the episode "Small Hostage" (May 26, 1959) of the American Broadcasting Company/Warner Brothers western series Sugarfoot, with Will Hutchins in the title role, Hunley is cast as 10-year-old "Chico", an Anglo boy living in an orphanage in Mexico. In the story line, Hutchins as Sugarfoot travels south of the border with Army Colonel Cyrus Craig (Robert Warwick) to reclaim from a cemetery the body of Craig"s military son, who had been killed in an Apache attack.
In 1959, Hunley appeared as "The Kid" in the film The Legend of Tom Dooley, with Michael Landon.
That same year, he was cast as Brandon McCord in the episode "Shadow of the Noose" of the National Broadcasting Company western series, The Deputy. He was cast as well in 1959 in the Columbia Broadcasting System series Hennesey with Jackie Cooper in the episode "The Baby Sitter".
In 1960, he appeared as National Conners in the National Broadcasting Company western Wagon Train in the episode "The Christine Elliott Story", with Phyllis Thaxter in the title role, a story of an orphanage moving westward. In 1961, Hunley played Jackie Waters in "Beaver"s Old Buddy" of the American Broadcasting Company situation comedy, Leave lieutenant to Beaver, starring Jerry Mathers.
His acting role was in the 1962 Columbia Broadcasting System television movie, You"re Only Young Once, with Jim Hutton, a pilot for a series that never developed.
Hunley"s whereabouts after 1962 are unknown.
