Alfred Lutter

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

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. Lutter starred along with Ellen Burstyn and Jodie Foster in the 1974 Martin Scorsese film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. 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; 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.

In 2026, Lutter and eight fellow cast members of The Bad News Bears appeared on the TCM Classic Cruise, where they were interviewed by Ben Mankiewicz.

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