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Actress Director Producer I, Robot She is known for playing Dr. Jim Hutton. Actor The Green Berets Son of Col. Thomas R. Hutton and Helen Ryan, his parents divorced when he was an infant. Jim recalled seeing his father only twice before his death, and moved to Albany, New York, in A bright but troublesome child claiming to have been in five high schools and a boarding school , he excelled as a writer and won a journalism scholarship when he began writing sports for his high school newspaper.
At Syracuse University, he lost his position in the school of journalism and scholarship when he was bitten by the acting bug. He subsequently lost academic ambition and failed three classes as a freshman. He used his summers to train in summer stock, but his intentions to continue academic pursuits were ended when he was expelled from Syracuse as a sophomore and again at Niagara College as a junior.
He lived in Greenwich Village for almost a year to pursue a career on the stage, but when out of money and unable to pay his rent or buy food, he joined the army and was assigned to special services to act in training films. He was later stationed in Berlin, where he founded the American Community Theater, by renovating an abandoned theater for a GI production of the play "Harvey" which he starred in.
Receiving high praise from officers including official commendation, his superior officer agreed to assign Hutton to manage the theater as part of his official duties and he produced, directed, and acted in five productions over two years, receiving the European Theater Award for Best GI Theater. One of his productions, The Caine Mutiny , received the attention of director Douglas Sirk , who offered him the significant role of "Hirschland" in A Time to Love and a Time to Die as a young Nazi who commits suicide.
