Will Hutchins

Born: 1930-05-05

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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Magnum Force

as Cost Plus Cop
Released: 1973-12-13

"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops...

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Roar

as Committee
Released: 1981-11-12

Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their...

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as Spectator (uncredited)
Released: 1994-05-20

Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional...

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The Romantics

as Grandpa McDevon
Released: 2010-09-10

Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say “I do” at a...

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The Horror at 37,000 Feet

as Steve Holcomb
Released: 1973-02-13

A commercial-jet captain (Chuck Connors) has ghosts on board from stones of an English abbey...

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No Time for Sergeants

as Lt. George Bridges
Released: 1958-07-05

Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride. He’s been drafted. Will’s ready....

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Clambake

as Tom Wilson / 'Scott Heyward'
Released: 1967-12-04

The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see...

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The Shooting

as Coley Boyard
Released: 1966-06-02

Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a...

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Warren Oates: Across the Border

as Self
Released: 1993-11-10

A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and...

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Bombers B-52

as Roberts - B-52 Navigator (uncredited)
Released: 1957-11-22

Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even...

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Spinout

as Tracy Richards
Released: 1966-10-06

Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and...

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Merrill's Marauders

as Chowhound
Released: 1962-03-16

Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite...

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Shangani Patrol

as Frederick Russell Burnham
Released: 1970-12-03

Set in the First Matabele War in what was then Rhodesia; a scouting group from the British South...

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Lafayette Escadrille

as Dave Putnam
Released: 1958-02-28

A hotshot young flyer falls for a French prostitute during World War I.

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The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington

as Randall Petersdorf
Released: 1977-07-15

The world's most famous madame is called to Washington to testify before Congress.

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Claudelle Inglish

as Dennis Peasley
Released: 1961-09-20

A young daughter of poor farmers is forced by her mother to ditch her young boyfriend in order...

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The Quest

as Earl
Released: 1976-05-13

Eight years ago, Cheyenne Indians attacked the Baudine Family wagon and captured Morgan (Kurt...

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Slumber Party '57

as Harold Perkins
Released: 1976-08-31

In 1957, a group of high school girls spending the night in a mansion tell each other about...

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Perry Mason

as Donald Hobart
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Maverick

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-09-22

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers...

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Maverick

as Lawyer
First aired: 1957-09-22

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers...

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Emergency!

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-01-22

The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and...

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Matinee Theater

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-10-31

Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of...

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Cheyenne

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-09-20

Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on...

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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as J.J. Fenton
First aired: 1962-09-20

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of...

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The Streets of San Francisco

as Sparky
First aired: 1972-09-23

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate...

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Gunsmoke

as Billy Poe
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Surfside 6

as Arky Cooper
First aired: 1960-10-06

Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a...

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77 Sunset Strip

as Self
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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77 Sunset Strip

as Emcee
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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Sugarfoot

as Tom Brewster, The Canary Kid
First aired: 1957-09-17

Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The...

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Bronco

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-23

Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United...

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The Roaring 20's

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-15

The adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.

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Hey Landlord!

as Woodrow 'Woody' Banner
First aired: 1966-09-11

Hey, Landlord is an American sitcom appearing on NBC during the 1966-1967 season, sponsored by...

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