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person_profile-Will Hutchins

Will Hutchins Age: 94

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Will Hutchins

Date of Birth:

May 05, 1930

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Will Hutchins

    Will Hutchins (born Marshall Lowell Hutchason), 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. Hutchins was discovered by a talent scout for Warner Bros., who changed his name from Marshall Lowell Hutchason to Will Hutchins. The young actor's easygoing manner was compared to Will Rogers, the Oklahoma humorist. His contract led him to guest appearances in Warner Bros. Television programs, such as Conflict. Hutchins was also cast as a guest star on Cheyenne, Bronco, Maverick and 77 Sunset Strip.

    He had small roles in the Warners movies Bombers B-52, Lafayette Escadrille, and No Time for Sergeants where he screen tested for the lead of Will Stockdale with James Garner playing the psychiatrist.

    Hutchins leapt to national fame in the lead of Sugarfoot. During the series' run he guest-starred on other Warner Bros shows such as The Roaring 20's, Bronco, and Surfside 6. Warners tried him in the lead of a feature, Young and Eager aka Claudelle Inglish with Diane McBain. He tried another pilot for a series, Howie, that was not picked up and war in the Warners war film with Jeff Chandler, Merrill's Marauders, a picture filmed in the Philippine Islands and Chandler's last acting role. Hutchins guest-starred on Gunsmoke and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

    While appearing in a play in Chicago in late 1963, he was flown to Los Angeles to shoot a television pilot for MGM, Take Me to Your Leader, in which Hutchins played a Martian salesman who came to Earth. Though the pilot was not picked up, it led MGM to sign him for Spinout, in which he co-starred as Lt. Tracy Richards ("Dick Tracy" backwards) alongside Elvis Presley. In 1965, Hutchins co-starred with Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates in Monte Hellman's The Shooting.

    In 1968–1969, Hutchins starred as Dagwood Bumstead in a CBS television version of the comic strip Blondie. He travelled to South Africa to appear in Shangani Patrol. Back in the United States, Hutchins guest-starred on Love, American Style, Emergency!, Chase, Movin' On, The Streets of San Francisco, and The Quest. He was in The Horror at 37,000 Feet, Slumber Party '57, and The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington.

    He also began appearing in circuses as Patches the Clown.

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Will Hutchins

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Filmography of

Will Hutchins

Found 18 Movies in total

The Romantics

Grandpa McDevon ( Actor )

... 2010

Maverick

Spectator (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1994

... 1993

Roar

Committee ( Actor )

... 1981

The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington

Randall Petersdorf ( Actor )

... 1977

Slumber Party '57

Harold Perkins ( Actor )

... 1976

The Quest

Earl ( Actor )

... 1976

Magnum Force

Cost Plus Cop ( Actor )

... 1973

The Horror at 37,000 Feet

Steve Holcomb ( Actor )

... 1973

Shangani Patrol

Frederick Russell Burnham ( Actor )

... 1970

Clambake

Tom Wilson / 'Scott Heyward' ( Actor )

... 1967

Spinout

Tracy Richards ( Actor )

... 1966

The Shooting

Coley Boyard ( Actor )

... 1966

Merrill's Marauders

Chowhound ( Actor )

... 1962

Claudelle Inglish

Dennis Peasley ( Actor )

... 1961

No Time for Sergeants

Lt. George Bridges ( Actor )

... 1958

Lafayette Escadrille

Dave Putnam ( Actor )

... 1958

Bombers B-52

Roberts - B-52 Navigator (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1957