He later appeared as Lieutenant Commander Alan Mattoni of the United States Navy in JAG, featuring from season three through to season six of the show\u2019s 10-season run.<\/p>\n
His television work also included roles in The Bold and the Beautiful and General Hospital, where he played multiple characters in the former and Lenny Caulfield in the latter.<\/p>\n
Hutton was also recognised for appearances in commercials during the 1990s, portraying a restaurant owner for KFC.<\/p>\n
In film, he contributed voice work to major animated productions including Shrek, The Princess and the Frog and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.<\/p>\n
Tributes were paid by colleagues, including fellow voice actor Steve Apostolina, who wrote on Facebook: \u201cA remarkable human being has left this earthly plane. To say that Rif Hutton was one of a kind is a gross understatement. There will never be another like him \u2013 perhaps his son Wolfy will come closest.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRif Hutton was a man of action. He inspired so many and leaves behind a legion of loyal admirers \u2013 people who loved him. Stories of his generosity would blow your mind.<\/p>\n
\u201cF*** cancer in general, but in particular glioblastoma [brain cancer]. I was lucky to cross his path and I am a better person for knowing him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He later appeared as Lieutenant Commander Alan Mattoni of the United States Navy in JAG, featuring from season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[50907,3376,74,95,1975,5837,1596,2534,2223,6179,7126,201836,156,2109,201837,201835,201838,111,139,69,1118,201834,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-390204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-50907","9":"tag-actor","10":"tag-after","11":"tag-and","12":"tag-at","13":"tag-battle","14":"tag-brain","15":"tag-cancer","16":"tag-confirmed","17":"tag-died","18":"tag-dies","19":"tag-doogie","20":"tag-entertainment","21":"tag-family","22":"tag-howser","23":"tag-hutton","24":"tag-jag","25":"tag-new-zealand","26":"tag-newzealand","27":"tag-nz","28":"tag-of","29":"tag-rif","30":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}