James Whitmore

[MA-Caver]

Versatile actor James Whitmore dies at 87


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090207/ap_en_mo/obit_james_whitmore
LOS ANGELES – James Whitmore, the many-faceted character actor who delivered strong performances in movies, television and especially the theater with his popular one-man shows about Harry Truman, Will Rogers and Theodore Roosevelt, died Friday, his son said. He was 87.
The Emmy- and Tony-winning actor was diagnosed with lung cancer the week before Thanksgiving and died Friday afternoon at his Malibu home, Steve Whitmore said.
"My father believed that family came before everything, that work was just a vehicle in which to provide for your family," said Whitmore, who works as spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. "At the end, and in the last two and a half months of his life, he was surrounded by his family."
His long-running "Give 'em Hell, Harry," tracing the life of the 33rd president, was released as a theatrical movie in 1975. Whitmore was nominated for an Academy Award as best actor, marking the only time in Oscar history that an actor has been nominated for a film in which he was the only cast member. His Teddy Roosevelt portrait, "Bully," was also converted into a movie.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0926235/

Another great Hollywood/Broadway star exits stage left. :asian:
So long Brooks.

 

[arnisador]

I read this in the paper. He surely was an excellent likeness of Harry Truman.

 

[David Weatherly]

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[grydth]

This versatile actor will be remembered by many 50's science fiction buffs as the tommy gun toting cop fighting giant ants in Them! from 1954.

 

[Twin Fist]

Brooks was here

 

[shesulsa]

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(note - thread moved to remembrance hall)

 

[Hand Sword]

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[morph4me]

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[IcemanSK]

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