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. ==Filmography==