18 Facts About Will Hutchins

Will Hutchins attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he majored in Greek drama.

Will Hutchins studied at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he enrolled in cinema classes.

Will Hutchins began acting and got a role on Matinee Theatre.

Will Hutchins was discovered by a talent scout for Warner Bros.

Will Hutchins's contract led him to guest appearances in Warner Bros.

Will Hutchins was cast as a guest star on Cheyenne, Bronco, Maverick and 77 Sunset Strip.

Will Hutchins 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.

Will Hutchins leapt to national fame in the lead of Sugarfoot, in which he played a frontier lawyer with intermittent comedic overtones.

Will Hutchins was the lead guest star in an episode of Maverick entitled "Bolt from the Blue" written and directed by Robert Altman and starring Roger Moore as Beau Maverick.

Will Hutchins appeared in supporting roles in the Warner Bros films Claudelle Inglish and the World War II action picture Merrill's Marauders, which starred Jeff Chandler.

In 1965, Will Hutchins co-starred with Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates in Monte Hellman's The Shooting.

Will Hutchins travelled to Rhodesia to appear in Shangani Patrol playing Frederick Russell Burnham.

Will Hutchins was in The Horror at 37,000 Feet, Slumber Party '57, and The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington.

Will Hutchins began appearing in circuses as Patches the Clown.

Will Hutchins had roles in Roar, Gunfighter and The Romantics.

Will Hutchins was married from 1965 to 1969 to Chris Burnett, sister of Carol Burnett, with whom he had a daughter.

Will Hutchins married his second wife, Barbara Torres, in 1988.

Will Hutchins died of respiratory failure at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York, on April 21,2025, at the age of 94.