Doug Hutchison Biography
Born: May 26, 1960
One of Hollywood's shoe-ins for deft portrayals of creepy, underhanded, Machiavellian types with an anarchic bite, Doug Hutchison distinguished himself with two career-defining portrayals in the late '80s: he played Obie, a member of a sinister student league at an all-boys' Catholic school, in director Keith_Gordon's The_Chocolate_War (1988), and Sproles, an undercover cop's younger brother who causes problems for an economically divided couple (Andrew McCarthy and Molly_Ringwald) in David_Anspaugh's romantic drama Fresh_Horses (1988). Hutchison frequently rose above the inherent weaknesses of the material he was handed, as in the two said films; one critic observed that Sproles "hoist[ed] [Horses] onto his shoulders for the duration of his scenes."
That ability didn't emerge serendipitously; a classically trained performer who received his formal education at Juilliard, Hutchison later studied drama one-on-one under the tutelage of legendary acting coach Sanford_Meisner. Unfortunately, within a few years of his astonishing onscreen debuts in 1988, Hutchison's screen activity somewhat declined, and when he did crop up, the projects were unworthy of him (such as 1992's The_Lawnmower_Man and 1996's Love_Always). By the late '90s, however, Hutchison rebounded, with additional roles in A-listers including The_Green_Mile (1999), I_Am_Sam (2002), and The_Salton_Sea (2002). By the tail end of that decade, Hutchison moved into more sensationalistic material, signing for turns in J.T. Petty's horror western The_Burrowers (2008) and Lexi_Alexander's comic-book superhero film Punisher:_War_Zone (2008). Nathan Southern, Rovi
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