James Whitmore

Gender: Male
Born: 1st October 1921
Died: 6th February 2009
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Temperatures Rising, Mister Sterling, The Law and Mr. Jones, My Friend Tony, The Word (US), My Friend Tony
Movies: Nuts, Planet of the Apes, The Asphalt Jungle, Them!, Tora! Tora! Tora!, High Crime, Because You're Mine, All the Brothers Were Valiant, Above and Beyond, The Shawshank Redemption, The Adventures of Mark Twain, The Relic, Nobody's Perfect, The Next Voice You Hear, The Undercover Man, The Harrad Experiment, Guns of the Magnificent Seven, Here's to Life!, Across the Wide Missouri, Oklahoma, Crime in the Streets, The First Deadly Sin, Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone, I Will Fight No More Forever, Battle Cry, Where the Red Fern Grows, Battleground, Waterhole #3, Kiss Me, Kate, The Golden Honeymoon, Madigan, Who Was That Lady?, The Eddy Duchin Story, Chato's Land, The Last Frontier, The Serpent's Egg, Chuka, Give 'em Hell, Harry!, Black Like Me, The Restless Years, Shadow in the Sky

James Allen Whitmore, Jr. (October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009) was an American film and stage actor.

Born in White Plains, to Florence Belle (née Crane) and James Allen Whitmore, Sr., a park commission official, Whitmore attended Amherst Central High School in Snyder, New York, before graduating from The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut. He went on to study at Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones and had his first taste of radio drama as part of other broadcasting experience as a member of the student-run WOCD-AM, later renamed WYBC-AM. He later was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and served in the United States Marine Corps in the Panama Canal Zone during World War II.

Following World War II, Whitmore appeared on Broadway in the role of the Sergeant in Command Decision. MGM hired Whitmore on contract, but his role in the film adaptation was played by Van Johnson. Whitmore's first major picture was Battleground, in a role that was turned down by Spencer Tracy, and for which Whitmore was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Other major films included Angels in the Outfield (1951 film), The Asphalt

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