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Omaha Steve

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Tue Apr 22, 2025, 07:25 PM Apr 2025

Will Hutchins, Star of ABC's 'Sugarfoot,' Dies at 94 [View all]

Source: Hollywood Reporter

The onetime Warner Bros. contract player also appeared in two Elvis films and played a New York City landlord and Dagwood Bumstead on short-lived sitcoms.

By Mike Barnes

April 22, 2025 9:03am

Will Hutchins, the eccentric actor who portrayed the wholesome sharpshooter and frontier lawyer Tom Brewster on the 1957-61 ABC Western Sugarfoot, has died. He was 94.

Hutchins died Monday of respiratory failure at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York, his wife, Barbara, told The Hollywood Reporter. “He was hysterical, everyone loved him,” she said. “He had a great sense of humor, and it never gave up on him.”

Hutchins also starred as Woody Banner, who inherits a Manhattan brownstone from his uncle, on the 1966-67 NBC sitcom Hey, Landlord, created by Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson, fresh off their work on The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Two years later, the blue-eyed Los Angeles native played Dagwood Bumstead opposite Patricia Harty on the 1968-69 CBS comedy Blondie. Based on the comic strip and following a set of films and a 1957 NBC series, it lasted just 16 episodes before being canceled.


Will Hutchins on 'Sugarfoot' Courtesy Everett Collection

Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/will-hutchins-dead-sugarfoot-1236197846/

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I remember that from when I was a kid. Susan Calvin Apr 2025 #1
Maverick, Cheyenne and Sugarfoot was the rotation in the afternoon when i was a kid. dem4decades Apr 2025 #5
I remember Sugarfoot. It was part of a rotating trio of shows along with Cheyenne and Bronco. rsdsharp Apr 2025 #2
Sugarfoot, Sugarfoot Susan Calvin Apr 2025 #8
It was kind of a catchy tune in those days. oasis Apr 2025 #10
Lol thank you Susan! Faux pas Apr 2025 #13
Oh, I was a kid too, so I'm not sure. I really didn't look it up. Susan Calvin Apr 2025 #15
Curtesy of https://www.crazyabouttv.com/sugarfoot.html Faux pas Apr 2025 #16
I still bust Faux pas Apr 2025 #3
See above. Susan Calvin Apr 2025 #9
And here it is! rsdsharp Apr 2025 #11
Thank you too Faux pas Apr 2025 #14
He was one of my early idols Marthe48 Apr 2025 #4
Still watch timms139 Apr 2025 #6
Sugarfoot was one of my favorites back in the day. The non-violent, law-studying young cowboy. Martin68 Apr 2025 #7
He was the last star of the 1950s Warner Brothers westerns. n/t valleyrogue Apr 2025 #12
I'm guessing those were the ones that I thought were all one show. nt Susan Calvin Apr 2025 #17
These are the Warner Brothers TV western series of the 1950s: valleyrogue Apr 2025 #19
Yep, the ones I thought were all one show are in that list. nt Susan Calvin Apr 2025 #20
Maverick did a brief parody of the Warner Brothers TV westerns in the episode, valleyrogue Apr 2025 #21
Oh my gosh, I have got to watch that episode. Susan Calvin Apr 2025 #22
I hope this Pluto link works for you. valleyrogue Apr 2025 #23
Seen here with Tommy Rettig mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 #18
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