Jim Hutton
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Dana James Hutton (May 31, 1934 – June 2, 1979), usually credited as Jim Hutton, was an American actor in television and the movies.
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[edit] Early life and career
Born in Binghamton, New York, Jim Hutton was performing in live theatre in Germany while with the United States Army when he was spotted by an American film director. In Hollywood, he gained recognition with teen audiences for his role in the 1960 college student film Where the Boys Are, where he appeared with Paula Prentiss, an actress he would be teamed with in several of his early films. He appeared with Prentiss in The Honeymoon Machine late in 1960, followed by 1961's Bachelor in Paradise starring Bob Hope and Lana Turner, and finally The Horizontal Lieutenant in 1962. In 1966, Hutton gained a wider audience in Walk, Don't Run, Cary Grant's last film.
In addition to being a gifted comedic actor, Hutton also took on dramatic roles such as Sam Peckinpah's 1965 western Major Dundee. In 1968 Hutton appeared in the John Wayne acted/directed war drama, The Green Berets, wherein Hutton played "The Scrounger".
[edit] The move to television
In the early 1970s Hutton began working almost exclusively in television and played the title role of Ellery Queen in the 1975 made-for-television movie that led to the 1975-76 television series Ellery Queen. Hutton's co-star was David Wayne who portrayed his widowed father. In the series (set in 1947), Hutton portrayed an amateur crime solver who worked on murder cases and tried to find out "whodunit."
[edit] Death and Academy Award dedication
Jim Hutton died in Los Angeles, California at the age of forty-five from liver cancer, and was interred in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
His son, actor Timothy Hutton dedicated his 1981 Academy Award to his late father.
[edit] See also
- "And When the Sky Was Opened", an episode of The Twilight Zone
