Will Hutchins

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1. About the name

   A Warner Bros. talent scout discovered Hutchins and gave him his stage name, changing it from Marshall Lowell Hutchason. The young actor's easygoing manner drew comparisons to Will Rogers, the Oklahoma humorist.

2. First role

   Hutchins's contract brought him guest roles on Warner Bros. Television shows, among them Conflict, where he played Ed Masters in the episode "The Magic Brew" on October 16, 1956.

3. Big break

   Hutchins became nationally famous for his leading role in Sugarfoot, a drama that mixed comedy and in which he portrayed a frontier lawyer.

4. 

   Big break

   Hutchins was in a Chicago play in late 1963 when MGM flew him to Los Angeles to film a television pilot, Bert I. Gordon's Take Me to Your Leader, as a Martian salesman who reached Earth. The pilot was not picked up, but MGM then signed him for Spinout.

5. A change of course

   Hutchins began appearing in circuses, where he took on the role of Patches the Clown, performing in that part as his start in the business.

6. First role

   As a child, Hutchins went to see where Never Give a Sucker an Even Break was being filmed, and that was where he got his first job, appearing as an extra in a crowd.