Before co-starring with Elvis in "Clambake" and "Spinout," Will Hutchins starred in the popular TV series "Sugarfoot."
How does working on movies compare with the weekly grind of a TV series?
Both are fine in their own ways. You can usually get a better product out of a flick, because you have more time. Ultimately, you need a good script, TV or flick. Without a solid script you're up the creek without a paddle and the boat.
You’re probably best known to the TV world as Tom “Sugarfoot” Brewster. Tell us a little about the character.
Sugarfoot ran on ABC-TV from 1957-1961. I played an itinerant mail-order law student-- I was tryin’ to work my way up to bein’ a tenderfoot. In other words, I gave every indication of being a green horn , but once you got my dander up, tweren't no one quicker on the draw. When we concentrated on visual, action comedy we were tops--when were more soap opera then hoss opera, we were the pits.
You've also done stage-work. Tell us a little about that.
I loved working with Nancy Carroll and Bill Bendix in the National Company of "Never too Late." Great way to see our country -- ditto traveling Australia twice over with Ashton’s circus. I’m a Travelin’
Man.
Your career in show business has included stage, screen, TV and the circus. Which did you enjoy the most?
No one genre of the show biz. On stage, screen, TV and circus, I’ve experienced feelings of high accomplishment, also the utter devastation of floppsville.
What did you do in the circus and for how long?
I worked off and on circuses for about ten years as clown or ringmaster-my favorite gig ever was forming a clown troupe for the city of L.A. for 4 1/2 years. Our troupe, put on 40 minute shows for all occasions for children of all ages.
Tell us a little about what your life and what you’re doing now Hutch .
Babs and I left the hurly, burly, of L.A. back in 1990 and moved to the peace and quietude of the country, an hour out of N.Y. West Long Island. We arrived just in time to be snowbound for four months during the record-breaking blizzards of ‘90 and ‘91. I learned to use a snow shovel pronto, you bet.
Here's just a partial list of Hutch's work in the field of entertainment:
TV series:
Sugarfoot (Tom Brewster)
Blondie (Dagwood)
Hey, Landlord ! (Woody)
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