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Rif Hutton, an character whose prolific activity successful tv included roles connected Doogie Howser, M.D., JAG and General Hospital, among galore different series, died Saturday, April 18, astatine his location successful Pasadena pursuing a yearlong conflict pinch nan encephalon crab Glioblastoma. He was 73.
His decease was announced by family to TMZ and by adjacent friends connected Facebook.
“A singular quality being has near this earthly plane,” wrote his friend and voice-over workfellow Steve Apostolina. “To opportunity that Rif Hutton was 1 of a benignant is simply a gross understatement…People knew erstwhile they hired him for a sound occupation that he was going to beryllium nan astir prepared – he ever was. He was besides ever first to show up connected a gig – I had nan awesome pleasance of beating him a fewer times and scooping a treasured chair, but those were fewer and acold between.”
Many of Hutton’s astir 200 TV credits were impermanent shots connected specified shows arsenic The Jeffersons, Remington Steele, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, 227, Night Court, A Different World, Knots Landing, Full House, Married…With Children, Wings, Murphy Brown, The Larry Sanders Show, Sister, Sister, Home Improvement, Family Matters, 3rd Rock from nan Sun, Seinfeld, American Horror Story, Grace and Frankie and NCIS: Los Angeles.
But he had longer runs connected bid including 1990’s Tribes (95 episodes), Doogie Howser, M.D. (17 episodes from 1989-93), 15 episodes of JAG (1997-2001) and, successful 2021 and 2022, 32 episodes of daytime soap General Hospital.
Film credits see nan 2022 crime drama Rattled! and, successful 2016, Ice Age: Collision Course.
“When nan SAG onslaught collapsed out,” Apostolina notes, “he was connected nan statement each time astatine Warner Bros. – a changeless imagination of support.”
Hutton learned he had a encephalon tumor successful March of 2025, and later took portion successful nan National Brain Tumor Society’s Southern California Brain Tumor Walk. At nan time, he wrote, “Every personification facing Glioblastoma, aliases immoderate encephalon disorder, deserves this benignant of support – to be surrounded by encouragement, by prayer, and by stalwart champions of dream and light. There continues to beryllium meaningful advancements successful nan conflict against [Glioblastoma], and that conflict needs all of us. Please support it successful immoderate measurement you can.”
He is survived by his wife, nan sound character Bridget Hoffman, and boy Wolfy. Additional subsister accusation was not instantly available.
