Hubley said when he first read the script for Top Gun, he thought it would be an ensemble film but producers focused the story around Maverick when they "realized what they had with Tom.
From 1996 to 1999, Hubley had the lead role of Sheriff Tom Hampton on the revival of Flipper.
According to a 2022 interview with the Portland Press Herald, Whip Hubley works as a manager for a construction firm in Southern Maine and acts in local theater productions.
[5] In April 2023, Hubley was randomly stopped by an officer of the South Portland Maine Police Department, in a good-natured call.
[6] Hubley currently resides in South Portland, Maine, after spending over thirty years in Santa Monica, California.