Rif Hutton

Rif Hutton was an American actor who relocated to Los Angeles during the mid-1970s to build a screen career. He was raised in East Orange, New Jersey, and was born in San Antonio, Texas. After a long stretch of auditions, he began landing guest roles on many television series, among them The Jeffersons, Night Court, L.A. Law, Married... with Children, Hunter, Wings, Murphy Brown and The Larry Sanders Show. His best known part was Dr. Ron Welch, which he played on the comedy-drama Doogie Howser, M.D. in a recurring capacity from 1990 until the series finished in 1993. Between 1997 and 2001 he returned to series television as Lt. Cmdr. Alan Mattoni on JAG, another recurring part. In commercials during the early and mid 1990s he played Russ Beeler, the fictional proprietor of a KFC outlet. He also acted on Los Angeles stages and did voice work. He died in 2026.