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Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Sutton was raised in Florida where he attended Saint St. Petersburg High School.
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He began his career during the silent film era and made the transition to sound films with the college themed shorts The Boy Friends. He moved on to countless character roles, where he frequently played dimwitted country boys. Film historian William J. Mann characterizes Sutton as a typical "Hollywood Sissy," that is as a gay actor who ordinarily portrayed an effeminate character for comedic effect.
He continued to work throughout the 1950s and 1960s, finally retiring from acting in 1979.
The strength of his association with Fields was such that it was mentioned in the commentary for My Fair Lady. Sutton has a non-speaking role in some of the formal-dress scenes, and subtly performs some comic shtick.
The commentator refers to him as "an old West. C. Fields actor". Sutton died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 89.
