Hooper Dunbar
From Bahaikipedia
Hooper Cameron Dunbar (b. March 30, 1937) is currently serving as a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Bahá'í Faith.
Mr. Dunbar was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. He worked as an actor on stage and screen, making films with Columbia, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Twentieth Century-Fox studios, and was a member of the Screen Actors' Guild of America. In 1958, he left Hollywood to take up residence in Central and South America, where he taught arts and English as a second language, and set up a graphic design business. However, his primary interest during those years was volunteer work as a teacher and lecturer for the Bahá'í Faith.
Mr. Dunbar served as a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Nicaragua from 1961 to 1963. Subsequently, he was appointed as an Auxiliary Board for the Protection of the Faith in the Americas from 1963 to 1968, and then as a Continental Board of Counsellors for the Protection and Propagation of the Faith from 1968 1973, also for the America. He took up residence in Israel in 1973 when he was named as one of the founding members of the International Teaching Centre. Mr. Dunbar served as a member of that institution for fifteen years, until he was elected to the Universal House of Justice in 1988.
