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02-07-2009, 08:57 PM
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James Whitmore RIP
Sad news about his passing as he was one of the better character actors in the 50's and 60's movies and television. Remember him best in the great WWII movie "Battleground", which several vets told me was one of the best representations of what life and death was like on the front lines. Also in the Planet of the Apes as the president. Didnt he also do some of the voice overs in the Pioneer ads of the 70's? In homage to one of his other movies I cant help but say..."The Next Voice you Hear"....
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02-07-2009, 09:02 PM
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He will surely be missed.
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02-07-2009, 09:12 PM
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I loved this guy as Sgt. Kinney in "Battleground". A real WWII vet playing a battle-hardened paratrooper at Bastogne. RIP.
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02-07-2009, 09:17 PM
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Also remember the outstanding performance he delivered in "The Shawshank Redemption". Truly great.
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02-07-2009, 09:37 PM
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Don't forget his LOOOONG running stage portrayal of Harry Truman, "Give 'Em Hell, Harry!"
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02-07-2009, 09:38 PM
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Forgot about the portrail of the journalist who wanted to experience life in America as a black man in "Black Like Me". A very telling tale of prejudice...
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02-07-2009, 10:43 PM
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02-08-2009, 07:03 AM
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My father (Sterling Hayden) acted with James Whitmore in the movie Asphalt Jungle in 1950 and they became friends in the early 1950's. My dad played
Dix and Whitmore played Gus. As my dad was, Whitemore was a Marine who carried the experience of being in the Corps into acting which made for some darn realistic portrayals.
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02-08-2009, 07:06 AM
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Indeed RIP. Ditto on Shawshank...great film.
...and then there's MiracleGrow. anden, your father also had many, many very memorable roles 
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02-08-2009, 07:26 AM
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02-08-2009, 07:32 AM
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he's got a heck of a bio! very impressive.
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02-08-2009, 10:23 AM
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If you ever get a chance to see "Face of Fire", it will stay with you, forever. Whitmore plays the role of a man whose face is hideously burned and he becomes mentally imbalanced as a result. It is truly disturbing at times but also amazing in that he acts with a cloth mask covering his face for 7/8 of the film. By today's standard it should have put him on top but I believe audiences then were just too uncomfortable with the subject matter to embrace his performance. (Unfortunately it sits in DVD release limbo.)
 Face of Fire / 1959 
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02-08-2009, 12:07 PM
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I had not heard about that. He will be missed. The first role of his I saw was his part in "Them!". And there was "Tora!Tora! Tora!", plus all the various tv episodes he was in. RIP...............
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