Robert Hutton(1920-1994)
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
The son of a hardware merchant and cousin of Woolworth heiress
Barbara Hutton, Robert Hutton was
born in Kingston, New York, and attended Blair Academy in New Jersey.
For several seasons the future film actor was a leading man and
director with the Woodstock Playhouse stock company in New York. He
supplemented his income by posing for the photographic illustrations in
sensational magazines and tabloids like "Modern Confessions". He spent
several years as a Warner Brothers contract player, but went through
some lean times after he left the studio and even considered going into
some other field. Hutton stuck with show business, working in movies,
TV and even doing some writing and directing. After working in England
for several years he returned to the US and settled again in Kingston,
NY, where he was born. He suffered a broken back in an in-home fall and
spent his last days in a nursing-care facility. He told an interviewer,
"I lived a fantasy in Hollywood. I met and worked with so many people
now considered legends. And then, just when I wondered why I was even
alive, I broke my back, and the Lord opened up a whole new world of
opportunity for me". Hutton wrote an autobiography but it was never
published because (according to Hutton) he wouldn't dish dirt on the
stars he knew.
