Los Angeles, April 22 -- Veteran actor Will Hutchins has passed away. He was 94.

Hutchins, who rose to fame by portraying wholesome sharpshooter and frontier lawyer Tom Brewster on the 1957-61 ABC Western Sugarfoot, died on Monday of respiratory failure at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York,

Remembering her husband, Barbara told The Hollywood Reporter, "He was hysterical, everyone loved him. He had a great sense of humor, and it never gave up on him."

Hutchins also starred as Woody Banner, who inherits a Manhattan brownstone from his uncle, on the 1966-67 NBC sitcom Hey, Landlord, created by Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson, fresh off their work on The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Two years later, the blue-eyed Los Angeles n...