Actor Will Hutchins, known for Sugarfoot, died of respiratory failure on Monday, April 21, 2025. He was 94 years old.

Hutchins portrayed frontier lawyer and sharpshooter Tom Brewster in Sugarfoot. The Western TV series ran from 1957 to 1961. He also played Woody Banner, a man who inherits a New York City brownstone on the sitcom, Hey, Landlord.

He was born Marshall Hutchason on May 5, 1930, in Los Angeles. When he was just a kid, Hutchins watched a film shoot and ended up appearing in a crowd scene for Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. Hutchins attended Pomona College, then served two years in the US Army as a cryptographer during the Korean War. After that, he attended the UCLA film school on the G.I. Bill.

Hutchins’ onscreen debut was in an episode of Conflict, then he was in a few episodes of Matinee Theatre, Lafayette Escadrille, and episodes of 77 Sunset Strip and Maverick. After Sugarfoot ended, he was in Claudelle Inglish, Merrill’s Marauders, episodes of Gunsmoke and Perry Mason, and The Shooting.

He starred opposite Elvis Presley in Spinout and Clambake, then he played Dagwood in the Blondie sitcom based on the comic strip. After that, he was in Magnum Force, The Quest, The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington, Roar, the movie Maverick, and his last roles were in Gunfighter and The Romantics.

Outside of film, he starred on Broadway in Never Too Late. After his film and TV career, Hutchins joined the circus, working as a ringmaster in Los Angeles, then worked as a clown for the Ashton Family Circus in Australia.