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.
The Slime People(1963)
Persecution(1974)
QB VII(1974)as Ambassador Richards
The Cherry Picker(1974)as James Burn II
Tales from the Crypt(1972)as Neighbour (segment: Poetic Justice)
The Persuaders!(1971)as Frank Rocco
The Secret Door(1964)
All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan(1985)as Self
So You Want to Be in Pictures(1947)as Self
Breakdowns of 1942(1942)as Self
Amicalement Votre, Hollywood au service de sa majestƩ(2017)as Frank Rocco
Horrible Horror(1986)as Doctor John Lamont, In clips from 'Invisible Invaders'
Hollywood and the Stars(1963)as Tommy Adams (clip from Destination Tokyo (1943))
Campbell Playhouse(1952)
