William Hutt

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William Ian DeWitt Hutt, (May 2, 1920 – June 27, 2007) was a Canadian actor of stage, television and film.

Hutt's distinguished career spanned over fifty years and won him many accolades and awards.

While his base throughout his career remained at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, he appeared on the stage in London, New York and across Canada.

Early life

Hutt was born in Toronto, Ontario, the second of three children. A graduate of Toronto's Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute (now Vaughan Road Academy), he served five years as a medic during World War II, receiving a Military Medal for "bravery in the field". After the war, he received his BA in 1948 from Trinity College at the University of Toronto, and subsequently joined the Stratford Festival of Canada for its first season in 1953.

About his early life, theatre director Richard Nielsen said, "As a young man, he was openly gay at a time when being openly gay was a very dangerous identity. He shunned violence, but he volunteered as a medic in the Second World War, and he later won the Military Medal for his services; and this I found most fascinating: he committed to a career in theatre when such a thing as the 'Canadian theatre' simply did not exist."

Later life and death

Hutt retired from the Stratford stage in 2005 with his most renowned role in a reprise of Prospero in The Tempest . He appeared in the television series Slings and Arrows as an ailing stage icon who wants to play King Lear one last time. He had planned to return to Stratford in 2007 in a production of A Delicate Balance, but had to cancel due to poor health.

Hutt was diagnosed with leukemia, and died peacefully in his sleep on June 27, 2007 in Stratford, Ontario.

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Acting career

Hutt's acting career revolved around the Stratford Festival, where he received cclaim in several roles, including those of King Lear (1988), James Tyrone (1991) and Lady Bracknell (1975–1979). Hamlet, Lear, Falstaff, Protus, Macbeth, and Titus Andronicus were all Shakespearean characters as Hamlet, Lear, Falstaff, Prosecu, Prosegue, Prosecu, Probeth, Macbeth, and Titus Andronicus. He was Artistic Director of the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario, from 1976 to 1980, and appeared at the Shaw Festival, Citadel Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The National Arts Centre, Chichester Festival, and Bristol Old Vic.

In Le Moyne's 2003 film The Statement and Sir John A. Macdonald, as well as Timothy Findley's The Wars, he appeared on film and television in roles as Le Moyne and Sir John A. Macdonald in The National Dream's Canadian television production The National Dream and Sir John A. Macdonald.

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