Canadian actor William Hutt died 27 June 2007 of leukemia. Born 2 May 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, he was best known as a stage actor, and was a founding member of the Stratford Festival of Canada in Ontario, where he appeared in or directed 130 productions over 39 years.
His few genre appearances include guest roles in Twice in a Lifetime (2000) and The Starlost (1973), and a role in 1979’s The Shape of Things to Come.
Hutt served with a medical unit of the Canadian Forces for five years during World War II and was awarded the Military Medal. In 1949 he graduated from the University of Toronto. He left no immediate survivors.