Will Hutchins
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| Will Hutchins | |||||||
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 Will Hutchins staring as Tom "Sugarfoot" Brewster |
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| Born | May 5, 1932  Los Angeles, California |
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| Spouse(s) | His former wife, Chrissie, is the sister of actor/comedian Carol Burnett. | ||||||
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Will Hutchins (born May 5, 1932, Los Angeles, California) is an American actor most noted for playing the lead role of Tom Brewster in the Warner Brothers Western television series Sugarfoot on ABC from 1957-1961.
[edit] Biography
Hutch, as he prefers to be known, attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he majored in Greek drama. He also studied at UCLA, 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..
Other major appearances:
- 1966, Spinout (film). Hutch co-starred as Lt. Tracy Richards with racecar driver/singer Elvis Presley.[2]
- 1966, The Shooting (film). Monte Hellman's low-budget Western with Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates.[3]
- 1967, Clambake (film). Hutch co-stars alongside Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, and Bill Bixby.[4]
- 1968-1969, starred as Dagwood Bumstead in a TV version of the comic strip Blondie.[5]
- 1970, Shangani Patrol (film). Co-starred as the American Scout Frederick Burnham in a film based on the actual events of the Shangani Patrol, shot on location in Rhodesia. [6]
- 1998, Gunfighter (film). A modern Western directed by Christopher Coppola. Also stars: Robert Carradine, Clu Gulager, and Martin Sheen.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ Past Golden Boot Award Winners (html). List. Retrieved on 2007-09-18.
- ^ Spinout at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ The Shooting at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Clambake at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Blondie at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Shangani Patrol at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Gunfighter at the Internet Movie Database
[edit] External links
- IMDB [1]
