Doug Hutchison

Doug Hutchison is one of those actors who makes every scene he's in just a little more unsettling — and I mean that as the highest compliment. He's built his career out of playing people you genuinely don't want to be alone with, and nobody does it better. His Percy Wetmore in The Green Mile (1999) is legitimately one of the great screen villains of that era — petty, cruel, cowardly, and disturbingly real — and it earned him a Satellite Award nomination that, honestly, should've gotten more attention. He trained at the University of Minnesota and came up through the ranks the hard way, but what's interesting is that underneath all those creep roles, he's also a writer and producer. That range is underrated. Hollywood has a handful of character actors who hold the whole ecosystem together, and Hutchison is firmly in that club — the guy you don't notice until he's gone, and then the movie suddenly feels safer and less interesting.

Name (English)

Doug Hutchison

Name (Japanese)

ダグ・ハッチソン

Reading

だぐ・はっちそん

Born

May 26, 1960 (age 66)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rat

Origin

Dover, Delaware, United States

Occupation

actor / film producer / film actor / television actor / screenwriter

High school

Apple Valley High School

University

University of Minnesota

• Official sitehttps://www.doughutchison.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug%20Hutchison
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q506778

Tags

• Delaware
• actor
• film producer
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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