During the early 1960s, he was seen as a new James Stewart ("Jimmy Stewart"). Very tall, gangly, and with a certain absent-minded lilt to his readings of the lines, Hutton seemed to have the abilities to take up where Stewart had left off, in comedy.
Started acting while serving with the U.S. Army in Germany. Founder and actor/director of the first English-speaking theatre in Berlin.
The father of the actor Timothy Hutton.
Yvette Vickers, July 1959 Playboy Centerfold and actress in such films as "Hud" and "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman" - whose "mummified" body was found alone in her Benedict Canyon home years later in 2010, was divorced twice and had an on-and-off 15-year relationship with the late actor Jim Hutton, often referred to by Ms Vickers as the true "love of her life.".