James Whitmore

James Allen Whitmore Jr. (October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009) was an American film, theatre, and television actor. During his career, Whitmore won three of the four EGOT honors; – a Tony, a Grammy, and an Emmy. Whitmore also won a Golden Globe and was nominated for two Academy Awards. Following World War II, Whitmore appeared on Broadway in the role of the sergeant in Command Decision. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave Whitmore a contract, but his role in the film adaptation was played by Van Johnson. His first major picture for MGM was Battleground, in a role that was turned down by Spencer Tracy, to whom Whitmore bore a noted physical resemblance. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role, and won the Golden Globe Award as Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role. Other major films included Angels in the Outfield, The Asphalt Jungle, The Next Voice You Hear, Above and Beyond, Kiss Me, Kate, Them!, Oklahoma!, Black Like Me, Guns of the Magnificent Seven, Tora! Tora! Tora!, and Give ’em Hell, Harry!, a one-man show for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of former U.S. President Harry S Truman. In the film Tora! Tora! Tora!, he played Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey.

Whitmore appeared during the 1950s on many television anthology series. He was cast as Father Emil Kapaun in the 1955 episode “The Good Thief” in the ABC religion anthology series Crossroads. Other roles followed on Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theater, Lux Video Theatre, Kraft Theatre, Studio One in Hollywood, Schlitz Playhouse, Matinee Theatre, and the Ford Television Theatre. In 1958, he carried the lead in “The Gabe Carswell Story” of NBC’s Wagon Train, with Ward Bond. Whitmore has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6611 Hollywood Boulevard. The ceremony was held on February 8, 1960.

Known For

The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

Planet of the Apes Not in library

Planet of the Apes

1968

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Not in library

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000

The Twilight Zone Not in library

The Twilight Zone

1959

The Majestic Not in library

The Majestic

2001

The Relic Not in library

The Relic

1997

Tora! Tora! Tora! Not in library

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970

The Asphalt Jungle Not in library

The Asphalt Jungle

1950

Bonanza Not in library

Bonanza

1959

Them! Not in library

Them!

1954

Acting

2017 Arthur Miller: Writer as Self (archive footage)
2005 Meet Mr. Miracle-Gro: The Horace Hagedorn Story
2004 Los Angeles Plays Itself as Lou Hopke in Shadow in The Sky (archive footage)
2003 Cole Porter in Hollywood: Too Darn Hot as Self
2003 A Minute with Stan Hooper as Dr. Goldman (1 episode)
2003 Mister Sterling as William Sterling Sr. (4 episodes)
2002 A Ring of Endless Light as Grandfather
2001 The Majestic as Stan Keller
2000 Here's to Life! as Gus Corley
2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Milton (1 episode)
1999 Swing Vote as Daniel Morissey
1997 The Relic as Dr. Albert Frock
1997 The Practice as Raymond Oz (3 episodes)
1995 Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick as Self
1994 The Shawshank Redemption as Brooks Hatlen In Library
1990 Old Explorers as Leinen Roth
1990 Sky High as Gus Johnson
1989 Glory! Glory! as Lester Babbitt
1988 Favorite Son as The President (3 episodes)
1987 Nuts as Judge Stanley Murdoch
1987 All My Sons as Joe Keller
1985 I Will Fight No More Forever as General Oliver O. Howard
1985 The Adventures of Mark Twain as Mark Twain (voice)
1985 George Burns Comedy Week as Ebenezer Scrooge (1 episode)
1985 The Ray Bradbury Theater as Craig Bennett Stiles (1 episode)
1984 Love Those Trains as Narrator
1984 Celebrity as Clifford Casey (3 episodes)
1982 Hail Columbia! as Narrator
1982 The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America as Narrator
1981 Code Red
1980 Mark, I Love You as Dwight Hamilton
1980 The First Deadly Sin as Dr. Sanford Ferguson
1980 Rage! as Borski
1980 The Golden Honeymoon as Charley Tate
1979 The Horror Show as (archive footage)
1978 Bully: An Adventure with Teddy Roosevelt as Teddy Roosevelt
1978 The White Shadow as Jake Reeves (2 episodes)
1978 The Word as George Wheeler (4 episodes)
1977 The Serpent's Egg as Priester
1976 The Flying Misfits as Capt. James 'Jim' Gutterman
1975 Give 'em Hell, Harry! as Harry S. Truman
1974 Where the Red Fern Grows as Grandpa
1974 The Balloon Vendor as Antonio
1974 Man Belongs to the Earth as Narrator
1974 The Canterville Ghost as Hyram B. Otis
1974 Dinah! as Self (2 episodes)
1973 The Harrad Experiment as Philip Tenhausen
1973 High Crime as Commissioner Aldo Scavino
1972 Chato's Land as Joshua Everette
1972 Temperatures Rising as Vincent Campanelli (27 episodes)
1971 If Tomorrow Comes as Frank Phillips
1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! as Admiral William F. Halsey
1970 The Challenge as Overman
1969 Guns of the Magnificent Seven as Levi
1969 My Friend Tony as Prof. John Woodruff (16 episodes)
1969 Then Came Bronson as Wilson Ford (1 episode)
1968 Madigan as Chief Inspector Charles Kane
1968 The Split as Herb Sutro
1968 Nobody's Perfect as Capt. Mike Riley
1968 Planet of the Apes as President of the Assembly
1968 The Name of the Game as Harry Roarke (1 episode)
1967 Chuka as Lou Trent
1967 Waterhole #3 as Capt. Shipley
1967 Cowboy in Africa
1967 Judd for the Defense
1967 Custer
1967 The Invaders as Harry Swain (1 episode)
1967 The Danny Thomas Hour as Professor John Woodruff (1 episode)
1966 The Tenderfoot as Captain Ewell
1966 The Monroes
1966 Tarzan
1966 T.H.E. Cat
1966 Shane as Harry Himber (1 episode)
1965 Run for Your Life as Chief Jim Holland (1 episode)
1965 The Big Valley as Handy (1 episode)
1965 The Loner
1965 For the People
1965 The Big Valley as Joshua Hawks (1 episode)
1965 The Big Valley as Tom Wills (1 episode)
1965 The Big Valley as Marshal Seth Campbell (1 episode)
1965 The Loner as Doc Fritchman (1 episode)
1965 National Geographic Specials as Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
1964 Black Like Me as John Finley Horton
1964 Slattery's People
1964 12 O'Clock High
1964 The Tenderfoot as Captain Ewell (3 episodes)
1963 Burke's Law as Joe Piante (1 episode)
1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre as J. Marvin Bean (1 episode)
1963 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters as Foxy Smith (1 episode)
1963 The Greatest Show on Earth
1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre as Major Will Stanton (1 episode)
1963 Arrest and Trial as Martin Burnham (1 episode)
1962 Icarus Montgolfier Wright
1962 Combat! as Hertzbrun (1 episode)
1962 Going My Way
1962 The Virginian as Capt. Piper Pritican (1 episode)
1962 The Virginian as Ezra Hollis (1 episode)
1962 The Virginian as Carl Kabe (1 episode)
1962 The Virginian as Marshal Krug (1 episode)
1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self (2 episodes)
1961 Bus Stop
1961 Ben Casey
1961 The Wonderful World of Disney
1961 Dr. Kildare as Henry Clay Kincaid (1 episode)
1961 Alcoa Premiere
1961 The Mike Douglas Show as Self (2 episodes)
1960 Who Was That Lady? as Harry Powell
1960 Route 66
1960 The Law and Mr. Jones as Abraham Lincoln Jones (45 episodes)
1960 The Chevy Mystery Show as Philip Selby (1 episode)
1960 Checkmate as Detective Lt. Dave Harker (1 episode)
1959 Face of Fire as Monk Johnson
1959 The Twilight Zone
1959 Rawhide as Sgt. Joe Duclos (1 episode)
1959 The Detectives
1959 Rawhide as Colonel John Macklin (1 episode)
1959 Bonanza as John Postley (1 episode)
1958 The Deep Six as Cmdr. Warren Meredith
1958 The Restless Years as Ed Henderson
1958 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958 Decision
1957 The Young Don't Cry as Rudy Krist
1957 Panic!
1956 Crime in the Streets as Ben Wagner
1956 The Eddy Duchin Story as Lou Sherwood
1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Jeb (1 episode)
1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Ben Kincaid (1 episode)
1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Joel Begley (1 episode)
1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Jonas - Blacksmith (1 episode)
1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
1955 The Last Frontier as Gus
1955 Oklahoma! as Mr. Carnes
1955 Battle Cry as MSgt. Mac
1955 The McConnell Story as SSgt. / Maj . / Col. Ty 'Dad' Whitman
1955 Gunsmoke as Amos Campbell (1 episode)
1955 The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 Playwrights '56
1955 Crossroads
1955 Gunsmoke as Jim Forbes (1 episode)
1955 Gunsmoke as Timothy Fitzpatrick (2 episodes)
1954 Them! as Sgt. Ben Peterson
1954 The Command as Sgt. Elliott
1954 The Great Diamond Robbery as Mr. Remlick, Lawyer
1954 Climax! as Stash Prohaska (1 episode)
1954 Climax! as Tom Miller (1 episode)
1954 Studio 57
1953 Kiss Me Kate as Slug
1953 Above and Beyond as Maj. William M. Uanna
1953 The Girl Who Had Everything as Charles "Chico" Menlow
1953 All the Brothers Were Valiant as Fetcher
1953 The United States Steel Hour
1952 The Hoaxters as Narrator (voice)
1952 Shadow in the Sky as Lou Hopke
1952 Because You're Mine as Sergeant 'Bat' Batterson
1951 It's a Big Country as Mr. Stacey
1951 Across the Wide Missouri as Old Bill (uncredited)
1951 The Red Badge of Courage as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1951 Angels in the Outfield as Angel (voice) (uncredited)
1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Tommy McDermott (1 episode)
1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Joe Benson (1 episode)
1950 The Next Voice You Hear... as Joe Smith
1950 The Asphalt Jungle as Gus Minissi
1950 Please Believe Me as Vincent Maran
1950 Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone as John Malone
1950 The Outriders as Clint Priest
1950 Lux Video Theatre as Tracy (1 episode)
1950 Lux Video Theatre as Self (1 episode)
1949 The Undercover Man as George Pappas
1949 Battleground as Kinnie
1948 Studio One as Sam (1 episode)
1947 Kraft Television Theatre
1944 Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominated (1 episode)
Tony e il Professore as il professore (6 episodes)