[3] He was the son of a hardware merchant and a cousin of the Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton.

[citation needed] He attended Blair Academy, a small boarding school in Blairstown, New Jersey.

[5] After leaving Warner Brothers’ studios Hutton continued working in movies, TV shows and as a writer and director in England for several years.

He returned years later to the United States and lived in New York where he was born and raised.

He spent his last days in a nursing care facility after breaking his back in a home accident.