Doug Hutchison

Doug Anthony Hutchison (born May 26, 1960) is an American actor, best known for his roles as sadistic corrections officer Percy Wetmore in The Green Mile, Eugene Victor Tooms in The X-Files, Horace Goodspeed in Lost, and Davros in 24. He owns the production company Dark Water Inc. --- Doug Anthony Hutchison was born in Dover, Delaware, the son of Deloris and Richard Hutchison. He spent most of his childhood in Detroit, Michigan and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has a younger brother named Erik. Years later, he moved to New York City. There, he studied with actor Sanford Meisner for two years. Hutchison made ends meet through odd-jobs, including dressing as a Citibank card while handing out fliers in Times Square. Hutchison began acting in high school productions at Apple Valley High School in Minnesota. Shortly after graduating from high school, at the age of 18, he starred in a Minneapolis production of Equus, to highly positive reviews. His other early stage credits include Sing Me Through an Open Window and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Hutchison has made several guest apperarences on notable shows, such as The Young Riders, Eugene Victor Tooms in The X-Files, a recurring role as the silicate, Elroy-El in Space: Above and Beyond, as 'Omega' on another Chris Carter show, Millennium, Horace Goodspeed in Lost, Sebastian Hulce on the soap opera The Guiding Light, as serial killer Humphrey Becker in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and the TV series Kidnapped, alongside Delroy Lindo. Recently, he has guest starred as Davros, a European terrorist in 24. Hutchison entered the film business at the end of the 1980s, portraying Sproles in the 1988 drama film Fresh Horses and Obie Jameson in the film adaptation of The Chocolate War. In the 1990s he appeared in films such as The Lawnmower Man (1992), as racist James Louis 'Pete' Willard in A Time to Kill (1996), Con Air (1997), and Batman & Robin (1997). In 1999, Hutchison was cast as troublemaking prison guard Percy Whitmore in the film adaptation of Stephen King's The Green Mile, for which he received critical acclaim. --- On May 20, 2011, Hutchison married Courtney Stodden in Las Vegas, Nevada. Stodden is Hutchison's third wife, and they met when Stodden attended an acting class that was being taught by Hutchison. Their relationship drew controversy and criticism, as Stodden was 16 when she married 51-year-old Hutchison, who has been labeled a "pedophile" and "predator". According to Hutchison, as a result of his marriage to Stodden, his agent quit, his family disowned him, and he received death threats.