{"id":38785,"date":"2025-04-22T18:57:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38785"},"modified":"2025-04-22T18:57:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:57:23","slug":"38785","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38785","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Will Hutchins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z042225rip_will_hutchins.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was announced today that Will Hutchins died yesterday, April 21, 2025.\u00a0 Respiratory failure was listed as the cause of death.\u00a0 Mr. Hutchins was 94.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Will Hutchins was born Marshall Lowell Hutchason.\u00a0 As a child Will Hutchins appeared as an extra in W.C. Fields&#8217; <em>Never Give A Sucker An Even Break<\/em>.\u00a0 Mr. Hutchins majored in Greek drama at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Will Hutchins served two years in the Army Signal Corps.\u00a0 After his enlistment Mr. Hutchins, using the GI Bill, enrolled at UCLA and began to pursue an acting career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Warner Bros. talent scout discovered Mr. Hutchins.\u00a0 It was at this point that Marshall Lowell Hutchason became Will Hutchins.\u00a0 He began getting roles on both television and in films.\u00a0 Will Hutchins is best known for his starring role on the television <em>Sugarfoot<\/em>.\u00a0 When the series ended Mr. Hutchins continued acting until 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the television projects that feature Will Hutchins include: <em>Warner Bros. Presents; Conflict<\/em> (3 episodes); <em>Matinee Theater<\/em> (4 episodes); <em>77 Sunset Strip; Maverick<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>Cheyenne; The Roaring 20s; Bronc; Surfside 6; Sugarfoot<\/em> (69 episodes); <em>Howie; Gunsmoke; The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; Take Me To Your Leader; Perry Mason; Hey Landlord<\/em> (31 episodes); <em>Blondie<\/em> (16 episodes); <em>Love American Style; The Horror At 37,000 Feet; The New Perry Mason; Emergency!; Chase; Movin&#8217; On<\/em> (2 episodes);<em> The Streets of San Francisco<\/em> and <em>The Quest<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of Will Hutchins&#8217; feature film appearances include: <em>Bombers B-52; Lafayette Escadrille; No Time for Sergeants; Merrill&#8217;s Marauders; The Shooting; Spinout; Clambake; Shangani Patrol; Magnum Force; The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington; Roar; Maverick<\/em> and <em>The Romantics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My favorite Will Hutchins role was Tom &#8220;Sugarfoot&#8221; Brewster.\u00a0 It ran in the afternoons when I was a kid.\u00a0 Mr. Hutchins played Tom Brewster a correspondence school lawyer who headed west to seek his fortune.\u00a0 Brewster was far from your typical stoic, tough cowboy.\u00a0 And I loved it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Out thoughts and prayers go out to Will Hutchins&#8217; family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced today that Will Hutchins died yesterday, April 21, 2025.\u00a0 Respiratory failure was listed as the cause of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38788,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38785\/revisions\/38788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}