and in 2000 was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Hutt was a recipient of a Governor General's Performing Arts Award in 1992. He was awarded the 1996 Sam Wanamaker Prize. One of the very few people in North America to have appeared on a postage stamp while still alive, he appeared on a stamp that celebrated the Stratford Festival's anniversary and showed him in character as Prospero. In 2000, a bridge on Waterloo Street North that crosses the Avon River in downtown Stratford, Ontario, was named the "William Hutt Bridge" in his honour. The bridge lies a few metres away from the house in which Hutt had lived for many years. Later life and death Hutt retired from the Stratford stage in 2005 with his most renowned role in a reprise of Prospero in The Tempest . He appeared in the television series Slings and Arrows as an ailing stage icon who wants to play King Lear one last time. He had planned to return to Stratford in 2007 in a production of A Delicate Balance, but had to cancel due to poor health. Hutt was diagnosed with leukemia, and died peacefully in his sleep on June 27, 2007 in Stratford, Ontario. Filmography Films TV References External links Legend Library Interview with William Hutt - Theatre Museum Canada William Hutt at Northern Stars — Canadians in the Movies Induction to the Canadian Walk of Fame 1920 births 2007 deaths Male actors from Toronto Canadian male film actors Canadian male stage actors Companions of the Order of Canada Canadian gay actors Deaths from leukemia Deaths from cancer in Ontario Members of the Order of Ontario Trinity College (Canada) alumni University of Toronto alumni People from Stratford, Ontario Dora Mavor Moore Award winners Governor General's Performing Arts Award winners Best Actor Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Canadian recipients of the Military Medal 20th-century LGBT people