Death and Academy Award Dedication
On June 2, 1979, Jim Hutton died in Los Angeles from liver cancer, two days after his 45th birthday. A year and a half later, his son, actor Timothy Hutton, dedicated his 1980 Academy Award which he had won for his role in the 1980 movie, Ordinary People to his father.
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