Brian G. Hutton (January 1, 1935 – August 19, 2014) was an American film director whose most notable credit is for the 1970 action classic Kelly's Heroes. He also had a brief acting career between 1954-1962, including an appearance as an army deserter in the episode "Custer" in Gunsmoke (series 2, 1956), as well as two guest appearances on Perry Mason in 1957: he played Rod Gleason in the series' fifth episode, "The Case of the Sulky Girl," then he played a parking attendant in "The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink." He made one last television appearance in 1975 in the series Archer.[1]

In 1958, Hutton played a young gunfighter, "The Kid", in the episode "Yampa Crossing" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins in the title role, with fellow guest stars Roger Smith and Harold J. Stone.[2] The following year he portrayed a remorseful defendant on trial for causing a traffic death in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (the episode "Your Witness"). He died in Los Angeles on August 19, 2014 at 79.[3]

Filmography

• King Creole (1958)
• Wild Seed (1965)
• The Pad and How to Use It (1966)
• Sol Madrid (1968)
• Where Eagles Dare (1968)
• Kelly's Heroes (1970)
• Zee and Co. (1972)
• Night Watch (1973)
• The First Deadly Sin (1980)
• High Road to China (1983)