Jim Hutton
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ccurts2319 — 18 years ago(August 20, 2007 04:10 PM)
Yes, to some extent his career went south, but he had few phone calls asking for him, because the man was in his early 40s and still had a baby face, and he was still being typecast as a goofball or comedic absent-minded person. He did do TV pilots until the year of his death, and he has a Disney film in there, too, that aired two or three weeks before he died. A real shame to die so young. I miss him, too. Very underrated actor. Oh, and a lot of the actors in Green Berets had their careers go south, for political reasons.
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rajimom — 21 years ago(May 06, 2004 08:11 AM)
Nope. It has been pretty well documented that he died of cancer. As to what type, I have heard lymphoma, and it is generally listed as liver cancer on most movie sites. But I remember reading that it was only like eight weeks between diagnosis and death, so it was a very swiftly progressing type, anyway
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lavich — 21 years ago(September 15, 2004 07:09 AM)
He was so great! it's a pity many people don't know him anymore!
Have you seen "Secret Window"? here there's his son, Tim and a magazine (very important for the main character): "Ellery Queen's mystery magazine" or something like that! -
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ccurts2319 — 18 years ago(August 20, 2007 04:12 PM)
The comment by rajimom is correct. Liver cancer has tumors on the liver. And yes, he first went to the doctor 8 weeks before he died. Apparently, there was a misdiagnosis at first, but I'm trying to verify the details on that.
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walmika — 21 years ago(January 10, 2005 11:55 AM)
This is addressed to anyone out there who might be able to help me.
Many years ago in l958 or l959 (I can't remember which year, exactly), I was a very young enlisted man in the U.S. Army participating in field maneuvers in Germany. Several of us in my outfit were "loaned" out to an American television production company on location near where we were encamped. Our jobs were to serve as extras during the shooting of a U.S. television show called "Citizen Soldier." At least that's what I remember the name to be. For this one particular segment in which we were participatingit was entitled "Big Slim"Jim Hutton was the lead actor. He was roughly four years older than me and I had never heard of him before. All I knew was that he was some kind of actor. During the course of the two-day shoot, I was personally involved in a number of scenes. One moment, I wore a German soldier's uniform and charged down a hill. In the following scene, I changed into a GI's outfit and actually ended up alongside Jim, actually shooting at myself. In another scene, I was an M.P. directing traffic at an intersection. But the scene I remember best is the one in which I was a wounded, unconscious GI laying on a table in an old burned out church. The lead character, Jim, aka "Big Slim", came rushing into the burning building and heroically swooped me off an operating table, thus saving my life. It took several takes before we got it right. On take one, Jim's job was to avoid falling timbers, fight through the smoke and get me out the door. Unfortunately, he cracked my "unconcious" head on the door frame and I cursed out loud. "Cut," shouted the director. And we set it all up again. The second time, he dropped me when stepping over a timber. Jim apologized profusely and during the next hour or so, I got to know him somewhat and liked him. We had a lot of laughs through it all.
I remained in the Army for another year and never saw the TV show. Indeed, I'm not sure the series ever aired. If it did, I'd sure like to have a copy of that segment in particular. Is anyone aware of it? Can anyone direct me to an agency that might know of the series' fate? Can anyone provide me Tim Hutton's mailing address. Although Tim didn't come around until much later, it's possible he might have access to his father's archives.
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ccurts2319 — 18 years ago(June 06, 2007 11:19 PM)
Dear Mr. Wallace,
I am researching Jim Hutton to write a biography. Information is limited. I would like to contact you via U.S. Postal mail to get your permission to refeb68r to you and use your anecdotes in the pieceAt this time I am still evaluating whether I will have enough to write a book or just an article.
Connie Curts ccurts2319@hotmail.com
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trs841 — 21 years ago(February 01, 2005 10:20 AM)
THIS IS TO "walmika" RE YOUR INQUIRY
I think I found what you're looking for! I've posted it to your "Private Messages" area but then it occurred to me that you might not be aware of this feature, so here's what I said:
Hi Mr. Wallace,
I think I may have found the TV show you were talking about in your comment. I think it was called "The Big Attack" and starred Sergeant 'Big Slim' played by Jim Hutton (then known as Dana Hutton). It describes his heroism on Omaha Beach against the Germans. It looks like a copy is available from a-1 Video for $19.95 plus S+H. It is # A-00-MC63. I don't think I can attach a link to the website because this is being forwarded by IMDB but the address is :
www.a-1video.com/Documentary.htm , and5b4 it's about 3/4 down the page. Or you can email me at trichs@hotmail.com and I can send you the link.
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 14 years ago(July 05, 2011 01:27 PM)
"I saw "Walk, Don't Run" for the third time last ni16d0ght with Jim Hutton and I can't believe that not many people remember him well. Now I have a crush on him. . . ."
I saw it for the first time about a week ago. I also have a crush on him! He's so sexy.
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S0RENC — 20 years ago(October 23, 2005 10:58 AM)
I actually remember Jim Hutton, from watching "The Green Berets" on video at age 9 or 10 together with my father. I seem to remember him from suffering a somewhat brutal demisesome spiky reck as I recall!?
For some reason (perhaps the graphic death in TGB :-)), he's managed to stay in my memory for all this time, even his name has stuck with me since. So, just today "Hellfighters" was on Danish television, and I just wanted to slap myself across the face for not making the connection before in my movie buff life - It's obvious that he and Timothy is related.
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Hancock_the_Superb — 20 years ago(December 04, 2005 06:26 PM)
I've seen him in two movies: "The Green Berets" and "Major Dundee", where he played fairly similar characters. Particularly like him in the latter, where his character evolved from an inept greenhorn to a competent officer over the course of the film.
"As Napoleon said, 'Only thunderbolts can be preferred to cannon'."
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marga — 20 years ago(December 12, 2005 01:28 AM)
hi, i'm a great jim's fan since i discovered the "ellery queen" series on my local tv 18 years ago. one of my favourite movies is "never is too late" although i agree that paula prentiss was his perfect partner. i'm trying to get -through ebay- some of that first movies but it's really difficult.
yesterday i was rewatching "the sky trap" (a tv movie for disney) where he plays the bad guy and it's very difficult to me to believe it, he seemed such a nice person!
greatings from barcelona