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A former child actor best known for his starring role as David MacLean in the 1953 science fiction classic Invaders from Mars, Jimmy Hunt has passed away at the age of 85 this week.

Jimmy Hunt was just six years old when he began his acting career, and while he retired from Hollywood by the time he turned fourteen, Hunt had already appeared in 35 movies.

Hunt once told the Los Angeles Times of his Hollywood origins at just six years old, “I was attending school about six blocks from MGM and they came there and picked some of us out, screen tested us, and I got the part. There were kids out there who wanted to be in movies, who would give their left arm to be in movies. I couldn’t dance or sing. What I had, I guess, was the all-American look everyone was looking for – freckles and curly hair.

Jimmy Hunt, the freckle-faced youngster who appeared in Pitfall, Sorry, Wrong Number, Cheaper by the Dozen, Invaders From Mars and 31 other features before he retired from acting at age 14, has died. He was 85.

Hunt suffered a heart attack six weeks ago and died Friday in a hospital in Simi Valley, his daughter-in-law Alisa Hunt told The Hollywood Reporter.

Hunt played William Gilbreth, one of the 12 offspring of an efficiency expert (Clifton Webb) and a psychologist (Myrna Loy), in Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), then returned to play another son in the family, Fred, in the sequel, Belles on the Toes (1952).

As an orphan, his character fueled the plot in The Mating of Millie (1948), a charming romantic comedy starring Evelyn Keyes and Glenn Ford, who taught him how to shoot marbles on the set. And in The Lone Hand (1953), Hunt portrayed the son of a widowed farmer (Joel McCrea) and served as...