Alfred Lutter Explained

Alfred Lutter
Birth Name:Alfred William Lutter III
Birth Date:March 21, 1962
Birth Place:Ridgewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Years Active:1974–1977
Alma Mater:Stanford University

Alfred William Lutter III (born March 21, 1962) is an American entrepreneur, engineer, consultant, and former child actor.[1] [2]

Life and career

Lutter was born on March 21, 1962, in Ridgewood, New Jersey, where he also grew up. He graduated from Ridgewood High School in 1980.[3] Lutter starred along with Ellen Burstyn and Jodie Foster in the 1974 Martin Scorsese film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.[4] The TV series Alice was a spin-off of this movie, in which he reprised his role as Alice's son Tommy in the pilot episode but was replaced by Philip McKeon when the series began.

Lutter also appeared as the young version of Woody Allen's character, Boris, in Love and Death;[5] and played the brainy Alfred Ogilvie in the original The Bad News Bears, and its first sequel, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. He also starred as Phillip in The Cay, a TV movie about a black Caribbean Islander and a white American boy lost on an island.

Lutter earned a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Stanford University in 1984 and a Master of Science in management and engineering from Stanford in 1988. In June 1986, he founded Lutter Consulting, a company providing technology strategy, organizational management, and outsourced software development services. He was also the CTO of Cumulus Media, E*Offering, and Lynda.com.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1974Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Tommy Nominee- BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
1974The Cay Phillip TV movie
1975Love and Death Young Boris
1976The Bad News Bears Ogilvie
1977The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training Ogilvie (final film role to date)
1977Family (1976 TV series) Alvin (Someone's Watching)

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. News: Alfred Lutter. https://archive.today/20130630012014/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/43868/Alfred-Lutter/biography. dead. Movies & TV Dept.. The New York Times. 2013-06-30.
  2. Web site: Alfred Lutter III . . . . 27 May 2021.
  3. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/633509897/ "Jocelyn Mays to wed Alfred W. Lutter III"
  4. News: Youth Learns About Love. October 5, 1975. Lakeland Ledger. 19 TV Week. October 27, 2021.
  5. News: New on DVD. August 19, 2004. USA Today. Mike. Clark. October 17, 2021.