Hutch Dano Explained

Hutch Dano
Birth Name:Hutchings Royal Dano
Birth Date:21 May 1992
Birth Place:Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Years Active:2009–present

Hutch Dano (; born May 21, 1992) is an American actor and painter. He is known for playing co-lead character Zeke Falcone in the Disney XD comedy series Zeke and Luther.

Early life

Dano was born in Santa Monica, California. He comes from a family of actors, including his father Rick Dano and grandfather Royal Dano.[1] His great-grandmother Virginia Bruce was an actress in the 1930s and 1940s and his great-grandfather J. Walter Ruben was a writer and director.[2]

Career

Dano was cast in his first commercial at the age of five, when his mother and father, also actors, took him along to their commercial audition. Dano began doing summer theater for four years before being discovered by casting director Orly Sitowitz at the age of 15. He started taking acting classes with Gary Marks and also with Jorge Luis Pallo at the Scott Sedita Studios.

Dano was booked for the lead role of Zeke in the pilot episode of Zeke and Luther (2009) for Disney's XD Channel. After wrapping his first season, Hutch booked the role of Henry, starring opposite Selena Gomez in the 20th Century Fox feature Ramona and Beezus (2010), playing Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby's friend Henry Huggins.[3] Dano also guest-starred on Disney Channel's The Suite Life on Deck (2008).

Dano guest starred on in 2010, for which he received a nomination in the 32nd Young Artist Awards in the Guest Starring Young Actor 18-21 category for a performance in a TV series.[4] He also appeared in an episode of White Collar in 2011. In 2014, Dano played the role of Sam, the cheating boyfriend who gets his just reward in the horror comedy Zombeavers.

Since 2014 he has focused as painter and plastic artist as his main career.[5] [6] In 2017, he featured in the horror movie Behind the Walls.[7] In 2019, Dano starred in the film Hoax,[8] and in the film Disappearance, which he also co-wrote.[9] [10]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2010Ramona and BeezusHenry Huggins
2013Feels So GoodEvan
2014ZombeaversSam
2016SunflowerBlake
2017Behind the WallsMichael Harper
2019DisappearanceBlakealso co-writer, producer
2019HoaxJustin Johnson

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2009
2011
The Suite Life on DeckMooseEpisodes: "Mulch Ado About Nothing", "Twister: Part 2"
2009–2012Zeke and LutherZeke Falcone Lead role
2010Luke JarrowEpisode: "Playa Vista"
2010Den BrotherAlex PearsonTelevision film
2011White CollarScott RiversEpisode: "Scott Free"
2015Double DaddyLucasTelevision film
2016Change of HeartJuddTelevision film
2016The EncounterJDEpisode: "The Heist"
2017Training Day ButlerEpisode: "Wages of Sin"
2020ShamelessDashEpisode: "This is Chicago!"

Web

Notes and References

  1. News: Disney star Hutch Dano hears grandpa as Lincoln . The Orange County Register . Mark . Eades . January 13, 2010 . 2022-09-16.
  2. https://voyagela.com/interview/meet-hutch-dano-of-venice/
  3. Web site: Crush of the Week: Hutch Dano. July 21, 2010. Seventeen .
  4. Web site: 32nd Annual Young Artist Awards . 2012-03-31 . YoungArtistAwards.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130808150433/http://www.youngartistawards.org/noms32.html . 2013-08-08 .
  5. Web site: Zombeavers (2014) . September 7, 2014 .
  6. Web site: NSFW! 'Zombeavers' Come Alive in This Exclusive Look at the Newest Horror-Comedy | Entertainment Tonight . March 19, 2015 .
  7. Web site: Behind The Walls | Dual Visions - A Kondelik Brothers Company . Thekondelikbrothers.com . 2019-06-03.
  8. Web site: Interview: Writer/Director and Star of HOAX Imagine Meeting an Actual Sasquatch . Josh . Millican . August 26, 2019 . Dread Central.
  9. Web site: Thriller Disappearance gets a poster and trailer . June 19, 2019 . Gary. Collison . Flickering Myth .
  10. Web site: Disappearance | Film Threat .