James Whitmore

James Whitmore

October 1, 1921 · 105 years old

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 Wor…

Known For

26 titles
1
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994 · 2h 22m · Movie

A wrongfully convicted banker forms a close friendship with a hardened convict over a quarter century while retaining his humanity through simple acts of compassion.

9.3
2
Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes

1968 · 1h 52m · Movie

After being kept in hypersleep during a long expedition into deep space, an astronaut crew crash-lands in the 40th century on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.

8.0
3
The Majestic

The Majestic

2001 · 2h 32m · Movie

In 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

6.9
4
Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970 · 2h 24m · Movie

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

7.5
5
The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle

1950 · 1h 52m · Movie

A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.

7.8
6
The Relic

The Relic

1997 · 1h 50m · Movie

A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like God, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.

5.8
7
Them!

Them!

1954 · 1h 34m · Movie

The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.

7.2
8
Oklahoma!

Oklahoma!

1955 · 2h 25m · Movie

In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.

7.0
9
Battleground

Battleground

1949 · 1h 58m · Movie

True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.

7.4
10
Nuts

Nuts

1987 · 1h 56m · Movie

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

6.6
11
Chato's Land

Chato's Land

1972 · 1h 40m · Movie

In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.

6.6
12
Kiss Me Kate

Kiss Me Kate

1953 · 1h 49m · Movie

An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them.

7.0
13
The Adventures of Mark Twain

The Adventures of Mark Twain

1985 · 1h 26m · Movie

Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn join Mark Twain on his airship to meet Halley's Comet.

7.2
14
Guns of the Magnificent Seven

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

1969 · 1h 45m · Movie

Gunslinger Chris Adams is hired by a Mexican revolutionary to organize the rescue of his cause's leader from a brutal Army prison.

5.7
15
Battle Cry

Battle Cry

1955 · 2h 29m · Movie

Young Marines have adventures in love and war.

6.4
16
The First Deadly Sin

The First Deadly Sin

1980 · 1h 52m · Movie

Police inspector Edward Delaney, nearing retirement, is trying to care for his bedridden wife Barbara while he tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.

5.9
17
The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier

1955 · 1h 38m · Movie

A trapper and his two partners work as scouts for a remote army fort where they witness an incompetent colonel's decision to throw his small unprepared garrison against Red Cloud's sizable Sioux force.

6.3
18
Who Was That Lady?

Who Was That Lady?

1960 · 1h 55m · Movie

Ill-advised by his pal Mike Haney, chem teacher David Wilson falsely claims to be an undercover FBI agent to hide his infidelity. His jealous wife Ann swallows this lie, but it gets him in trouble with the real FBI, the CIA, and t...

6.6
19
Waterhole #3

Waterhole #3

1967 · 1h 35m · Movie

Professional gambler Lewton Cole kills a Confederate soldier, then finds a map pinpointing the desert location where stolen Army gold bullion is buried. Cole plans to retrieve it, but other parties are searching for it, too.

6.1
20
A Ring of Endless Light

A Ring of Endless Light

2002 · 1h 28m · Movie

Based on a novel by Madeline L'Engle. During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.

5.8
21
The Undercover Man

The Undercover Man

1949 · 1h 25m · Movie

Treasury Department agent Frank Warren takes on the case of a mob leader who has evaded paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains.

6.6
22
High Crime

High Crime

1973 · 1h 43m · Movie

In Genoa, a righteous police inspector fights to bring down a powerful drug ring, all while key suspects and those closest to him begin to die in more-or-less equal measure.

6.9
23
Chuka

Chuka

1967 · 1h 45m · Movie

While Indians besiege a U.S. Army fort in 1876, residents of the fort, a gunfighter, a stagecoach driver, two Mexican women, and a motley company of soldiers, try to come to terms with their pasts.

6.3
24
Black Like Me

Black Like Me

1964 · 1h 45m · Movie

Based on the true story of a white reporter who, at the height of the civil-rights movement, temporarily darkened his skin to experience the realities of a Black man's life in the segregated South.

6.6
25
The McConnell Story

The McConnell Story

1955 · 1h 46m · Movie

A Korean War fighter pilot hero returns home to test fly the new Sabre jets despite his wife's uneasiness regarding his job.

6.3
26
Swing Vote

Swing Vote

1999 · 1h 30m · Movie

Joseph Kirkland, new appointee to the US Supreme Court, suddenly finds himself the center of attention as his other eight justices have split their votes down the middle on a case involving a woman who is charged with murder after...

5.9