His former students and advocates include such people as Adrienne Parks, Allison Anders, David Koepp, Mike Werb, Sacha Gervasi, Dan Pyne, David Titcher, James Dalessandro, Diane Saltzberg, Michael Colleary, Don Mancini, Kathy Stumpe, Darren Star, Alexander Payne and Tom Shadyac.

Other students include Chuck Loch, Paige Macdonald, Robert Wolfe, Joel Schumacher, Megan Steinbeck, Robert Roy Poole, Lon Diamond, Laurie Hutlzer, Pamela Gray, William Missouri Downs, Robin Russin, Brad Silberling, Greg Widen, Vinnie Langdon III, and many others.

After college, he worked as a radio station late night manager, where he did everything including playing records, giving news updates and reading weather reports.

Needing to support his family as he struggled to find roles, he took a minimum wage paying job at NBC, where he worked in the mail room, answered phone calls, swept floors and acted as a delivery driver.

Hunter worked extensively in television, first in programming and production on a wide range of popular television shows such as Bewitched, Batman, Little House on the Prairie, and The Rockford Files, before he moved into the creative side, writing TV movies and series such as The Sound of Love, If Tomorrow Comes, Fallen Angel, and The Yellow Rose.