Brian G Hutton

Born January 1, 1935, New Yorker  Brian G. Hutton dreamed of carving out an acting career. He debuted with a brief role in The Terrible Miss Dove , where he was one of the students of a strict teacher played by Jennifer Jones . Director  John Sturges gave him very supporting roles in his westerns  Clash of the Titans and Last Train from Gun Hill , and he was one of the gang members harassing  Elvis Presley in The Neighborhood Against Me .

But his career hadn’t quite taken off, so in 1965 he decided to change his occupation and reinvented himself as a director with Wild Seed , a romantic drama that went unnoticed. His most famous works were two action films that take place during World War II. In Challenge of the Eagles ,  Clint Eastwood and  Richard Burton play two Allied soldiers who must save a general being held by the Nazis in a castle. In Kelly’s humor-filled The Rogues, Kelly reprises his role as the leader of a tank division that conspires to steal a fortune hidden by the enemy.

Hutton also directed  Elizabeth Taylor in the drama Wild and Dangerous and the horror film One Hour at Night . After the policeman The First Deadly Sin , with  Frank Sinatra as a policeman in search of a psychopath and  Faye Dunaway as his dying wife, he said goodbye to the cinema with the adventure film The Great Road to China , an imitation of Raiders of the Lost Ark , with  Tom Selleck –who had refused to be Indiana Jones– as the protagonist.