
Actor
American character actor of rather bizarre range, a member of the so-called John Ford Stock Company. Originally a New York stage actor of some repute, Whitehead entered films in the 1930s. He played a wide variety of character parts, often quite different from his own actual age and type. He is probably most familiar as Al Joad in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940). But twenty-two years later, in his fifth film for Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Whitehead at 51 was playing a lollipop-licking schoolboy! He continued to work predominantly on the stage, appearing now and again in films or on television. In his last years, he suffered from cancer and died in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland, where he had lived in semi-retirement for many years.
Născut
1 martie 1911
Zodie
Pești
Decedat
29 iulie 1998
Locul nașterii
New York City, New York, USA
Universul filmelor sale
Regie · 5 filme
John Ford
Bărbatul care l-a împușcat pe Liberty Valance, Fructele mâniei, The Horse Soldiers, Two Rode Together, The Last Hurrah
Regie · 2 filme
Charles Lamont
Comin' Round the Mountain, Ma and Pa Kettle

Bărbatul care l-a împușcat pe Liberty Valance
Herbert Carruthers
1962

Fructele mâniei
Al Joad
1940

Leul în iarnă
Bishop of Durham
1968

The Horse Soldiers
Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
1959

Two Rode Together
Lt. Whitehead
1961

Panic in Year Zero!
Hogan
1962

The Last Hurrah
Norman Cass Jr.
1958

Summer Magic
Mr. Perkins
1963

A Song Is Born
Professor Oddly
1948

Road House
Arthur
1948

Beware, My Lovely
Mr. Franks
1952

The Hoodlum
Breckenridge
1951

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
Isaac Goodpasture
1958

Comin' Round the Mountain
Zeke
1951

Ulysses
Alexander J. Dowie
1967

Ma and Pa Kettle
Mr. Billings
1949

The Scarf
Whoopie
1951

The Scoundrel
Calhoun
1935

FBI Girl
Chauncey
1951

The San Francisco Story
1952

The San Francisco Story
Alfey
1952

The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Ninny Nat
1947

Philadelphia, Here I Come
Ben Burton
1975

For Men Only
Prof. Bixby
1952