Will Hutchins

Infobox actor
name = Will Hutchins|100px|thumbnail


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caption = Hutchins staring as Tom "Sugarfoot" Brewster
birthname =
birthdate = birth date and age|1932|5|05
birthplace = flagicon|United States Los Angeles, California
spouse = His former wife, Chrissie, is the sister of actress/comedian Carol Burnett.
academyawards =
awards = Golden Boot Awards (2002)cite web |url=http://www.mptvfund.org/events/event%20archive/archive_gba.htm |title=Past Golden Boot Award Winners |accessdate=2007-09-18 |format=html |work=List]
Stone-Waterman Award (2004) - Cincinnati Old Time Radio Convention

Will Hutchins (born May 51932) 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.

Biography

Hutch, as he prefers to be known, was born in Los Angeles, California and 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. [imdb title|0061015|Spinout]
* 1966, "The Shooting" (film). Monte Hellman's low-budget Western with Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates. [imdb title|0062262|The Shooting]
* 1967, "Clambake" (film). Hutch co-stars alongside Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, and Bill Bixby. [imdb title|0061489|Clambake]
* 1968-1969, starred as Dagwood Bumstead in a TV version of the comic strip "Blondie". [imdb title|0062547|Blondie]
* 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. [imdb title|0367031|Shangani Patrol]
* 1998, "Gunfighter" (film). A modern Western directed by Christopher Coppola. Also stars: Robert Carradine, Clu Gulager, and Martin Sheen. [imdb title|0155732|Gunfighter]

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