Dana James Hutton, known as Jim Hutton, was an American actor in film and television best remembered for his role as Ellery Queen in the 1970s TV series of the same name, and his screen partnership with Paula Prentiss in four films, starting with Where the Boys Are. He is the father of actor Timothy Hutton.
Hutton as Ellery Queen in 1976
Sue Randall and Jim Hutton in "And When the Sky Was Opened", a 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone
Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1928 by the American detective fiction writers Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred Bennington Lee (1905–1971). It is also the name of their main fictional detective, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murder cases. From 1929 to 1971, Dannay and Lee wrote around forty novels and short story collections in which Ellery Queen appears as a character.
Manfred Lee (left) and Frederic Dannay
Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen
Frederic Dannay (left) with EQMM contributor James Yaffe in 1943.
George Nader as Ellery Queen and Marian Seldes in the television program The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen.