Will Hutchins

TV Actor

Will Hutchins was born in Los Angeles, California, United States on May 5th, 1930 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 94, Will Hutchins biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
May 5, 1930
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, United States
Age
94 years old
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
Networth
$5 Million
Profession
Actor, Television Actor
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Education
Pomona College
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Chrissie Burnett, ​ ​(m. 1965; div. 1969)​, Barbara Torres ​(m. 1988)​
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Will Hutchins Life

Will Hutchins (born Marshall Lowell Hutchason; May 5, 1930) is an American actor most noted for playing the lead role of the young lawyer from the Oklahoma Territory, Tom Brewster, in sixty-nine episodes of the Warner Bros.

Western television series Sugarfoot, which aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961.

Only five episodes aired in 1961, including the series finale on April 17.

(The Encyclopedia of Television Shows erroneously indicates that Sugarfoot aired from 1957 to 1963.)

Early life

Hutchins was born in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles. As a child, he visited the location filming of Never Give a Sucker an Even Break and made his first appearance as an extra in a crowd.

He attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he majored in Greek drama. He also studied at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he enrolled in cinema classes.

During the Korean War, he served for two years in the United States Army Signal Corps as a cryptographer in Paris, serving as a Corporal with SHAPE. Following his enlistment he enrolled as a graduate student at UCLA in their Cinema Arts department on the G. I. Bill.

Hutchins began acting and got a role on Matinee Theatre.

Personal life

Hutchins was married to Chris Burnett, sister of Carol Burnett, with whom he had a daughter.

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Will Hutchins Career

Career

Hutchins was discovered by a Warner Bros. talent scout who changed his name from Marshall Lowell Hutchason to Will Hutchins. The young actor's sociable demeanor was likened to Will Rogers, the Oklahoma humorist.

His work led him to guest appearances in Warner Bros. television shows, including his screen debut in "The Magic Brew" on October 16, 1956.

On Cheyenne, Bronco, Maverick, and the 77 Sunset Strip, Hutchins appeared as a guest star.

He had small parts in Warner Brothers B-52 (1957), Lafayette Escadrille (1958), and No Time for Sergeants (1958), where he was screen tested for Will Stockdale's lead with James Garner playing the psychiatrist.

Hutchins gained national prominence in the case of Sugarfoot, in which he played a frontier prosecutor with sporic comedic overtones.

During the series's run, he appeared on other Warner Bros shows, including The Roaring 20's, Bronco, and Surfside 6. In an episode of Maverick titled "Bolt from the Blue," written and directed by Robert Altman and starring Roger Moore as Beau Maverick, he was the lead guest star.

Young and Eager (1961) aka Claudelle Inglish with Diane McBain, Warners tried him in the lead of a film, Young and Eager (1961) aka Claudelle Inglish (1961) aka Claudelle Inglish (1961).

Howie, a pilot for a series that was not picked up and appeared with Jeff Chandler in Merrill's Marauders (1962), a photograph shot in the Philippine Islands and Chandler's last acting role.

Hutchins left Warners after this season.

Hutchins appeared on Gunsmoke and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

When playing in a Chicago play in late 1963, Hutchins was flown to Los Angeles to shoot a television pilot for MGM, Bert I. Gordon's Take Me to Your Chief, in which Hutchins played a Martian salesman who came to Earth. Despite the fact that the pilot was not picked up, MGM eventually signed him for Spinout, which he co-starred as Lt. Tracy Richards ("Dick Tracy") with Elvis Presley.

He appeared on an episode of Gunsmoke in 1963 as well. Billy Poe's character appeared in S8/Ep24's "Blind Man's Bluff."

In 1965, Hutchins co-starred alongside Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates in Monte Hellman's The Shooting.

In 1966, Don Hobart, a lawyer, appeared on CBS courtroom drama series Perry Mason as murderer Don Hobart in "The Case of the Scarlet Scandal." In the episode "The Case of the Deadly Deeds," Dan Haynes appeared in The New Perry Mason in 1973. (This episode starred actress Jodie Foster.)

He co-starred with Sandy Baron in Hey, Landlord, in 1966–1967, and was based in a New York City apartment building. The program followed Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, but it struggled to attract a sustaining audience against CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show and ABC's The F.B.I. Efrem Zimbalist Jr., his former Warner Brothers coworker, speaks with him.

In Clambake (1967), Hutchins was reunited with Presley.

In 1968-1969, Hutchins appeared as Dagwood Bumstead in a CBS television version of Blondie's comedies.

He travelled to Rhodesia to appear in Shangani Patrol (1970) as Frederick Russell Burnham.

Hutchins appeared on Love, American Style, and Disaster!, Chase, Movin' On, The Streets of San Francisco, and The Quest, back in the United States. He was in The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973), Slumber Party 1957-1976 (1977), and The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington (1977).

Patches the Clown appeared in circuses for the first time.

Hutchins appeared in Roar (1981), Gunfighter (1999), and The Romantics (2010).

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