Ernest Whitman
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Ernest Whitman with Amanda Randolph in Beulah (1953)
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| Born | Ernest Whitman February 21, 1893 Fort Smith, Arkansas. U.S. |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
Ernest Whitman (February 21, 1893 Fort Smith, Arkansas – August 5, 1954 Hollywood, California) was an African American stage and screen actor.[1]
He appeared in a number of films, including King for a Day (1934), The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936), The Green Pastures (1936), Jesse James (1939), Gone With the Wind (1939), Third Finger, Left Hand (1940), Among the Living (1941), Road to Zanzibar (1941), Cabin in the Sky (1943), Stormy Weather (1943), The Lost Weekend (1945), My Brother Talks to Horses (1947), Banjo (1947) and The Sun Shines Bright (1953), his last movie.
Whitman also performed on stage, with a role in The Last Mile and various other productions.[1]
Whitman was the wartime host of the Jubilee radio show aimed at African-American troops. He portrayed the character Bill Jackson in The Beulah Show on radio from 1952 to 1953.[2]
Broadway roles
- The Last Mile (1930) as Vincent Jackson
- Chamberlain Brown's Scrap Book (1932) as Ashley the penitent
Death
Whitman died of a liver ailment on August 5, 1954 in Hollywood.[3]
Filmography
- Jesse James (1939)
References
- Ernest Whitman at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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