Robert Hutton (actor)

{{Short description|American actor (1920–1994)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Robert Hutton

| image = Robert Hutton in The Big Bluff (1955).jpg

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| caption = Hutton in The Big Bluff (1955)

| birth_name = Robert Bruce Winne

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|06|11|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Kingston, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1994|08|07|1920|06|11|mf=yes}}

| death_place = Kingston, New York, U.S.

| resting_place = Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York

| other_names =

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1943–1975

| spouse = {{Plainlist|

  • {{marriage|Natalie Thompson|1943|1945|reason=divorced}}
  • {{marriage|Cleatus Caldwell|1946|1950|reason=divorced}}
  • {{marriage|Bridget Carr|1951|1963|reason=divorced}}
  • Audrey Emery ({{abbr|m.|married}} 1960s; {{abbr|div.|divorced}} 1960s)
  • {{marriage|Rosemary Wooten
    |1969}}

}}

| children = 2

}}

Robert Hutton (born Robert Bruce Winne;{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/09/obituaries/robert-hutton-73-movie-actor-dies.html|title=Robert Hutton, 73, Movie Actor, Dies|date=August 9, 1994|publisher=|via=www.nytimes.com}} June 11, 1920 – August 7, 1994) was an American actor.

Early life

Robert Bruce Winne was born in Kingston, New York,{{cite book|last1=Willis|first1=John|last2=Monush|first2=Barry|title=Comprehensive Pictorial and Statistical Record of the 1994 Movie Season|date=2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9781557832337|page=277|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C7Qh8xVipgYC&dq=%22Robert+Bruce+Winne%22&pg=RA1-PA235|accessdate=November 22, 2017|language=en}} and he grew up in Ulster County, New York.{{cite news |last1=Geertsema |first1=Tobie |title=Kingston's Robert Hutton Home Again...Film Star Opts for Movie Scripting |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4195980/1975_robert_hutton_rosemary_wooten/ |work=The Kingston Daily Freeman |date=April 27, 1975 |location=New York, Kingston |page=TEMPO-3|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = July 1, 2018}} {{Open access}} He was the son of a hardware merchant and a cousin of the Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton.{{Citation needed|date=July 2018}}

He attended Blair Academy, a small boarding school in Blairstown, New Jersey.

Career

Before he ventured into films, Hutton acted at the Woodstock Playhouse in Woodstock, New York for two seasons. His film debut as Robert Hutton came in Destination Tokyo (1943).

Hutton resembled actor Jimmy Stewart: during World War II when Stewart enlisted in the Army Air Forces in March 1941, Hutton benefited from "victory casting" in roles that would ordinarily have gone to Stewart.{{cite book|last1=Denton-Drew|first1=Andra D. Clarke and Regina|title=Ciro's: Nightclub of the Stars|date=2015|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9781467133791|page=62|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FBDSCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Robert+Hutton%22+actor&pg=PA62|accessdate=November 22, 2017|language=en}} His final film was The New Roof (1975).{{cite news |title=Robert Hutton, ex-movie actor |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21456246/robert_hutton/ |work=South Florida Sun Sentinel |agency=Associated Press |date=August 10, 1994 |location=Florida, Fort Lauderdale |page=13|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = July 1, 2018}} {{Open access}}

After leaving Warner Brothers’ studios Hutton continued working in movies, TV shows and as a writer and director in England for several years. He returned years later to the United States and lived in New York where he was born and raised.

Personal life

Hutton had a daughter and a son. He spent his last days in a nursing care facility after breaking his back in a home accident. He is interred in Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York.Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.

he died of pneumonia in 1994

Selected filmography

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