Hunt was born on Friday, April 26, 1929, He had been working as a freelance director in New York City before being hired to work at the
Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, where he served as their casting director for ten years. He was then hired by
Joseph Barbera to direct animated series at
Hanna-Barbera. His first voice directing job was
Partridge Family 2200 A.D. in 1974. With a prestigious twenty-year career at Hanna-Barbera, Hunt was now prominent in the voiceover forum, where he was a freelance director for multiple animated productions and video games. As a voice actor, he voiced the character of
Wally in the
animated adaptation of the comic strip
Dilbert. He has often worked alongside colleague voice directors
Ginny McSwain,
Andrea Romano,
Kris Zimmerman and Jamie Thomason. McSwain, Romano and Zimmerman had studied under him as animation casting directors and learned the profession from Hunt before becoming voice directors themselves. Andrea Romano considers him to be her mentor, who makes actors feel so comfortable and relaxed that she said, "Nobody does not like Gordon". He directed many television series, of which most were
situation comedies. In 1996, he received the
Directors Guild of America Award; "Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series" for
Mad About Yous episode
The Alan Brady Show. Hunt also voice directed multiple video games. Among the games he worked on are
Pandemonium, the
God of War series,
Lair,
Final Fantasy XIV,
Blur, the
Legacy of Kain series, and the
Uncharted series. He also served as
motion capture director on
Uncharted: Golden Abyss. ==Personal life==