Hooper Dunbar


Hooper Dunbar is a painter. He was a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing institution of the Baháʼí Faith, from 1988 until he resigned in 2010.

Background

A statement from the Baháʼí World News Service announcing the retirement included the following biographical statement about Hooper Dunbar:
In a biographical video, Dunbar shared that he was born in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California. He was named after his grandfather, becoming Hooper Cameron Dunbar, III. Dunbar graduated from Hollywood High School and as a young man was very interested in stage settings, becoming involved in local theater productions. After graduation from high school he moved to New York and landed a lead role in a play called "The Young Disciple," about the public reaction to the arrival of a messenger of God to New York. He states at that time he had not yet heard of the Baháʼí Faith. He first heard of the Baháʼí Faith from the sculptor and actor Samuel Berger, who would later pioneer to Mexico.
As a Baháʼí, Dunbar traveled extensively. For example, as an Auxiliary Board member he toured Bolivia in 1964, and as a Counselor he visited Botswana in 1984. and as a member of the Universal House of Justice he visited the Czech Republic in 2007.

Acting career

Throughout his acting career, Hooper Dunbar starred in a number of plays, television series, and movies for such Hollywood studios as Columbia, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Twentieth Century-Fox. He eventually gained membership to the Screen Actors Guild. In 1957, Dunbar starred as Alfred Kramer in two episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, a television series broadcast on CBS. Also in 1957, Dunbar starred alongside Pat Boone and Dick Sargent in the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation production of Bernardine.

Artwork

Hooper Dunbar paints in his studios in northern California and Spain. In addition to being held in many private collections throughout the world, his paintings have been exhibited at the United Nations Offices of the New York City Business Integrity Commission and the executive offices of SOHO CHINA in Beijing.

Writings