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Will Hutchins

 
Actor: Will Hutchins
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  • Born: May 05, 1932 in Los Angeles, California
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '50s-'70s
  • Major Genres: Western, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Merrill's Marauders, The Shooting, Gunfighter
  • First Major Screen Credit: Cheyenne: Season 04 (1958)

Biography

Sandy-haired, 6'1" leading man Will Hutchins established his reputation with "aw, shucks," country bumpkin roles -- even though he was born in a suburb of Los Angeles, won a Shakespearean festival Best Actor award while still in high school, and specialized in Greek drama at Pomona College. After military service, he took cinema classes at U.C.L.A., learning virtually every technical aspect of filmmaking. Discovered by TV producer Albert McCreery, he was signed to a Warner Bros. contract in 1956. The following year he was cast as the title character in the TV Western Sugarfoot, playing laconic, easygoing frontier lawyer Tom "Sugarfoot" Brewster (so named because he was "one grade lower than a tenderfoot") from 1957 through 1960. He continued appearing in guest roles on TV until his next series stint as Dagwood Bumstead in the short-lived 1968 revival of Blondie. Eventually Will Hutchins left films to write poetry and pursue a second career as a circus clown. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Will Hutchins

Hutchins starring as Tom "Sugarfoot" Brewster
Born May 5, 1932 (1932-05-05) (age 77)
Flag of the United States Los Angeles, California
Spouse(s) His former wife, Chrissie, is the sister of actress/comedian Carol Burnett.

Will Hutchins (born May 5, 1932) is an American actor most noted for playing the lead role of the young lawyer Tom Brewster in the Warner Brothers Western television series Sugarfoot on ABC from 1957-1961.

Biography

Hutch, as he prefers to be known, was born in Los Angeles, California, and attended Pomona College in Claremont, where he majored in Greek drama. He also studied at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he took cinema classes. He served two years in the U.S. Army as a cryptographer in Paris, France.

In 1966-1967, he costarred with Sandy Baron in an NBC sitcom Hey, Landlord set in a New York City apartment building. The program followed Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, but it failed to attract a sustaining audience against CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show and ABC's The F.B.I. with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., his former Warner Brothers colleague.

Other major appearances:

References

  1. ^ Spinout at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ The Shooting at the Internet Movie Database
  3. ^ Clambake at the Internet Movie Database
  4. ^ Blondie at the Internet Movie Database
  5. ^ Shangani Patrol at the Internet Movie Database
  6. ^ Gunfighter at the Internet Movie Database

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