{{Short description|American entrepreneur}} {{Notability|bio|date=March 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox person | name = Alfred Lutter | image = | caption = | birth_name = Alfred William Lutter III | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|3|21|mf=y}} | birth_place = Ridgewood, New Jersey, U.S. | occupation = {{hlist|Entrepreneur|engineer|consultant}} | 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.<ref>{{cite news| title=Alfred Lutter|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/43868/Alfred-Lutter/biography|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130630012014/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/43868/Alfred-Lutter/biography|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|archive-date=2013-06-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/alfred-lutter |title=Alfred Lutter III |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango Media |access-date=27 May 2021}}</ref>
==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.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/633509897/ "Jocelyn Mays to wed Alfred W. Lutter III"], ''The Ridgewood News'', March 27, 1994. Accessed February 1, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mays of Bonita, Calif, announce the engagement of their daughter, Jocelyn Eastman, to Alfred William Lutter III, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred William Lutter Jr. of Rancho Bernardo, Calif.... Mr. Lutter, a graduate of Ridgewood High School,', obtained his bachelors degree in civil engineering in 1984 from Stanford University and his masters degree in engineering and management in 1988, also from Stanford University."</ref> Lutter starred along with Ellen Burstyn and Jodie Foster in the 1974 Martin Scorsese film ''Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore''.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kKwwAAAAIBAJ&pg=2842,1275228&dq=alfred-lutter&hl=en| title=Youth Learns About Love| date=October 5, 1975| newspaper=Lakeland Ledger| page=19 TV Week| access-date=October 27, 2021}}</ref> 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'';<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2004-08-19-new-on-dvd_x.htm| title=New on DVD| date=August 19, 2004| newspaper=USA Today| first=Mike| last=Clark| access-date=October 17, 2021}}</ref> 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.
He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Stanford University in 1984 and a Master of Science degree 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== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1974|| ''Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'' || Tommy || Nominee- BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles |- |1974|| ''The Cay'' || Phillip || TV movie |- |1975|| ''Love and Death'' || Young Boris || |- |1975|| ''It Must Be Love ('Cause I Feel So Dumb)'' || Erik || ABC Afterschool Special |- |1976|| ''The Bad News Bears'' || Ogilvie || |- |1977|| ''The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training'' || Ogilvie || (final film role to date) |- |1977|| ''Family'' || Alvin || (Someone's Watching) |}
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==Bibliography== * {{cite book| author-link=John Holmstrom| last=Holmstrom| first=John| title=The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995| location=Norwich| publisher=Michael Russell| year=1996| pages=341–342| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGJZAAAAMAAJ&q=lutter| isbn=978-0-8595-5178-6}}. * {{cite book| last=Putt, Jr.| first=Barry M.| year=2019| title=Alice: Life Behind the Counter in Mel's Greasy Spoon (A Guide to the Feature Film, the TV Series, and More)| location=Albany, Georgia| publisher=BearManor Media| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v2yuDwAAQBAJ&dq=lutter&pg=PT8| isbn=978-1-6293-3426-4}}.
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0527501|Alfred Lutter III}} * {{LinkedIn page|in/alfred-lutter-693a995|Alfred Lutter}} * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806204343/http://www.lutter.com/ |date=August 6, 2020 |title=Lutter Consulting }}
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