Brian G. Hutton
Brian G. Hutton (1935–2014) was an American film director and former actor whose two best-known films, Where Eagles Dare (1968) and Kelly's Heroes (1970), both starring Clint Eastwood, made him a noted craftsman of the late-1960s war movie. Born in New York City and trained at the Actors Studio, he worked as an actor through the 1950s in films such as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Last Train From Gun Hill, King Creole, and The Big Fisherman before moving behind the camera with the low-budget drama Wild Seed (1965). He directed Elizabeth Taylor in X Y & Zee (1972) and Night Watch (1973), then took a seven-year break before returning to make The First Deadly Sin (1980) with Frank Sinatra and Faye Dunaway. In the mid-1980s he left filmmaking entirely for a career in real estate.