Will Hutchins, Gentle Cowboy Lawman in ‘Sugarfoot,’ Dies at 94

Will Hutchins, Gentle Cowboy Lawman in ‘Sugarfoot,’ Dies at 94

Will Hutchins, who had a comically genteel starring role during the craze for television westerns in the 1950s, playing a sheriff who favored cherry soda over whiskey on “Sugarfoot,” died on April 21 in Manhasset, N.Y., on the North Shore of Long Island. He was 94. The cause was respiratory failure, his wife, Barbara Hutchins, said in a funeral home death notice. In 1958 and ’59, eight of the top 10 shows on TV were westerns. The best known incl…