Doug Hutchison Biography
Doug Anthony Hutchison is a famous American Character actor. He is well known for playing disturbing and antagonistic characters. Such characters include Obie Jameson in the 1988 film The Chocolate War, Sproles in the 1988 film Fresh Horses, the sadistic corrections officer Percy Wetmore in the 1999 film adaption of the Stephen King novel The Green Mile, Eugene Victor Tooms on the series The X-Files, and Horace Goodspeed in Lost. He has a production company, Dark Water Inc.
In 2011, at the age of 51, he received widespread criticism when he married 16-year-old singer Courtney Stodden.
How old is Doug Hutchison? – Age
The American actor is 62 years old as of July 26, 2022. He was born in 1960 in Dover, Delaware, United States.
Who is Doug Hutchison Parents? – Father and mother
The American actor has not shared any information about his family. He has a sibling. They were well raised by their parents with a lot of support.
Doug Hutchison Education
The actor attended Bishop Foley High School in Madison Heights, Michigan, and graduated from Apple Valley High School in Apple Valley, Minnesota in 1978. He later attended the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis-St Paul and studied at the Juilliard School in New York City.
Is Doug Hutchison in a Relationship? – Spouse
No, currently the actor is single. He has married three times as of 2021. On May 20, 2011, he married his third wife, Courtney Stodden in Las Vegas. They met when Stodden attended an acting class taught by Hutchison. According to the actor, his agent quit, his family disowned him, he received death threats, as a result of the marriage. In January 2017, it was reported that the pair had separated, but were still living together at the time. In March 2018, Stodden filed for divorce. The divorce was finalized in March 2020.
Doug Hutchison Children
The actor has no kids yet. In May 2016, it was announced that his wife, Stodden was expecting their first child. Sadly, in July 2016, around three months into their pregnancy, She suffered a miscarriage.
Doug Hutchison Career
The American actor’s first professional theater credit came shortly after high school graduation when he starred, as Alan Strang, in a Saint Paul, Minnesota, production of Equus. The production ran between February 9 and March 4, 1979. The production and Hutchison’s performance specifically were well-reviewed in local media.
The actor’s early stage credits include Sing Me Through an Open Window and William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. He has made guest appearances on television shows such as The Young Riders, The X-Files, Space: Above and Beyond (as Elroy-El), Millennium (as “Omega”), Lost, Guiding Light, Law & Order: Special victims Unit, and 24.
The actor’s film work began in the late 1980s, appearing as Sproles in the 1988 drama Fresh Horses and Obie Jameson in the 1988 film adaptation of The Chocolate War. Of his performance in Fresh Horses, one critic observed that he “hoist onto his shoulders for the duration of his scenes”. In the 1990s, he appeared in films such as The Lawnmower man (1992), A Time to Kill (1996), Con Air (1997), and Batman & Robin (1997), The Green Mile (1999). His later supporting roles included Shaft (2000), Bait (2000), I Am Sam (2001), The Salton Sea (2002), and No Good Deed (2002).
His 2000s feature film roles included playing James “Looney Bin Jim” Russotti in the punisher: War Zone and his television roles included Horace Goodspeed in Lost. He also starred in giving’ Em Hell, Malone’ (2009). In October 2008, the actor’s production company, Dark Water, debuted the web series Vampire Killers, which depicts four vampire hunters combating a vampire population of over 500,000 in Los Angeles.
Doug Hutchison Net worth
The American actor has an estimated net worth of around $4 million as of 2021.