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James Whitmore

James Whitmore

Highest Rated:
100% Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975)
Lowest Rated:
23% The Serpent's Egg (1977)
Birthday:
Oct 1, 1921
Birthplace:
White Plains, New York, USA
Bio:
Leading American character actor James Whitmore specialized in giving tour de force solo performances on stage, screen, and television, notably with his Oscar-nominated solo turn as President Truman in Give 'Em Hell Harry! Whitmore is short and thickset with a well-aged face and gentle smile; he is…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 23% - 100%
Number of Movies: 67
Box Office Since 2001: $27.7M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2004 Hope Springs Eternal: A Look Back at 'The Shawshank Redemption'
  • Actor
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2003 Poetry Corner
  • Actor
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2002 A Ring of Endless Light
  • Grandfather
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2001 42% The Majestic
  • Stan Keller
$27.7M
2000 Here's to Life!
  • Actor
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1997 32% The Relic
  • Dr. Albert Frock
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1995 Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
  • Actor
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1994 90% The Shawshank Redemption
  • Brooks Hatlen
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1990 Old Explorers
  • Leinen Roth
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1990 Glory, Glory
  • Lester Babbitt
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1989 Dinosaurs
  • Actor
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1988 Glory! Glory!
  • Actor
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1987 Target: Favorite Son
  • Actor
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1987 Frontier Heritage
  • Actor
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1987 38% Nuts
  • Judge Stanley Murdoch
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1986 All My Sons
  • Actor
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1986 Great Bible Stories - Moses
  • Actor
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1986 Firefighter (The Greater Alarm)
  • Actor
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1985 The Adventures of Mark Twain
  • Mark Twain
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1985 Greatest Adventure Stories From the Bible - Moses
  • Actor
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1985 Celebrity
  • Clifford Casey
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1982 Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
  • Major Flaherty
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1982 Hail Columbia
  • Narrator
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1980 57% The First Deadly Sin
  • Director
  • Dr. Sanford Ferguson
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1980 Rage
  • Actor
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1980 The Golden Honeymoon
  • Charlie Tate
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1978 Word
  • Actor
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1977 23% The Serpent's Egg
  • The Priest
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1975 I Will Fight No More Forever
  • General Howard
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1975 100% Give 'em Hell, Harry!
  • Harry S. Truman
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1974 Where the Red Fern Grows
  • Grandpa
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1973 The Harrad Experiment
  • Philip Tenhausen
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1973 La Polizia incrimina la legge assolve (The Marseilles Connection) (High Crime)
  • Actor
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1971 Chato's Land
  • Joshua Everette
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1970 59% Tora! Tora! Tora!
  • Adm. William F. Halsey
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1969 Guns of the Magnificent Seven
  • Levi Morgan
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1968 The Split
  • Sutro
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1968 100% Madigan
  • Chief Inspector Charles Kane
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1968 89% Planet of the Apes
  • President of the Assembly
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1967 Waterhole #3
  • Capt. Shipley
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1967 Invaders 4
  • Actor
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1967 Chuka
  • Trent
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1964 Black Like Me
  • John Finley Horton
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1960 Who Was That Lady?
  • Harry Powell
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1958 Deep Six
  • Cmdr. Meredith
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1956 Crime in the Streets
  • Ben Wagner
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1956 The Eddy Duchin Story
  • Lou Sherwood
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1955 80% Battle Cry
  • Sgt. Mac/Narrator
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1955 McConnell Story
  • Ty Whitman
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1955 95% Oklahoma!
  • Carnes
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1955 The Last Frontier
  • Gus Hideout
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1954 The Command
  • Sgt. Elliott
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1954 100% Them!
  • Sgt. Ben Peterson
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1953 All the Brothers Were Valiant
  • Fetcher
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1953 Girl Who Had Everything
  • Charles "Chico" Menlow
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1953 90% Kiss Me Kate
  • Slug
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1952 Above and Beyond
  • Maj. Uanna
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1952 Because You're Mine
  • Sgt. Batterson
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1951 Across the Wide Missouri
  • Actor
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1951 Shadow in the Sky
  • Lou
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1951 89% The Red Badge of Courage
  • Narrator
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1950 Next Voice You Hear
  • Joe Smith American
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1950 It's a Big Country
  • Mr. Stacey
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1950 96% The Asphalt Jungle
  • Gus Ninissi
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1950 Outriders
  • Clint Priest
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1949 The Undercover Man
  • George Pappas
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1949 100% Battleground
  • Kinnie
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