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Ernest Whitman is a Actor American born on 21 february 1893 at Fort Smith (USA)
Ernest Whitman (February 21, 1893 Fort Smith, Arkansas – August 5, 1954 Hollywood, California) was an African American stage and screen actor.
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.
He portrayed the character Bill Jackson in The Beulah Show on radio from 1952 to 1953.
^ IMDB entry
^ "The Last Mile". Internet Broadway Database. 1930. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
^ Tronchoni, José L Bernabé. "Ernest Whitman". 29 Jan 2006. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
Il débute au cinéma à l'occasion d'un film sorti en 1934 et apparaît en tout dans quarante-cinq films américains (dont bon nombre de petits rôles non-crédités), le dernier étant Le soleil brille pour tout le monde (1953) de John Ford. Comme autres films notables, mentionnons Les Verts Pâturages (1936) de Marc Connelly et William Keighley, le western Le Brigand bien-aimé (1939) d'Henry King — et sa suite, Le Retour de Frank James (1940) de Fritz Lang —, ou encore le film musical Un petit coin aux cieux (1943) de Vincente Minnelli et Busby Berkeley.
À la télévision, il interprète Bill Jackson dans huit épisodes, diffusés en 1952, de la série Beulah , créée par Jean Yarbrough, avec Louise Beavers (Hattie McDaniel en alternance) dans le rôle-titre. Notons qu'il tient ce même rôle dans l'adaptation de la série pour la radio, de 1952 jusqu'à sa mort brutale en 1954.
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Ernest Whitman
Birth name Ernest Whitman
Nationality USA
Birth 21 february 1893 at Fort Smith (USA)
Death 5 august 1954 (at 61 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 21 february 1893 at Fort Smith (USA)
Death 5 august 1954 (at 61 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Ernest Whitman (February 21, 1893 Fort Smith, Arkansas – August 5, 1954 Hollywood, California) was an African American stage and screen actor.
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.
He portrayed the character Bill Jackson in The Beulah Show on radio from 1952 to 1953.
^ IMDB entry
^ "The Last Mile". Internet Broadway Database. 1930. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
^ Tronchoni, José L Bernabé. "Ernest Whitman". 29 Jan 2006. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
Biography
Au théâtre, Ernest Whitman joue à Broadway (New York) de 1929 à 1934, dans cinq pièces et une revue.Il débute au cinéma à l'occasion d'un film sorti en 1934 et apparaît en tout dans quarante-cinq films américains (dont bon nombre de petits rôles non-crédités), le dernier étant Le soleil brille pour tout le monde (1953) de John Ford. Comme autres films notables, mentionnons Les Verts Pâturages (1936) de Marc Connelly et William Keighley, le western Le Brigand bien-aimé (1939) d'Henry King — et sa suite, Le Retour de Frank James (1940) de Fritz Lang —, ou encore le film musical Un petit coin aux cieux (1943) de Vincente Minnelli et Busby Berkeley.
À la télévision, il interprète Bill Jackson dans huit épisodes, diffusés en 1952, de la série Beulah , créée par Jean Yarbrough, avec Louise Beavers (Hattie McDaniel en alternance) dans le rôle-titre. Notons qu'il tient ce même rôle dans l'adaptation de la série pour la radio, de 1952 jusqu'à sa mort brutale en 1954.
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The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
, 1h30Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Western
Actors Charles Winninger, John Russell, Arleen Whelan, Russell Simpson, Stepin Fetchit, Francis Ford
Roles Pleasant 'Uncle Plez' Woodford
Rating68%
Sur fond de campagne électorale en 1905 dans une petite ville du Kentucky, des hommes se déchirent pour une femme. Alcoolique notoire, le juge Priest se représente aux élections locales. Prenant la défense d'un jeune Noir accusé injustement d'un viol d’une Blanche et participe aux obsèques d’une prostituée notoire, ce qui lui vaut le respect des uns et l’hostilité des autres. De vieux secrets de familles resurgissent...
Banjo (1947)
, 1h8Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sharyn Moffett, Jacqueline White, Walter Reed, Una O'Connor, Louise Beavers, Herbert Evans
Roles Uncle Jasper
Rating58%
After her father dies, Patricia Warren, a girl of nine, must go from her home in Georgia to live with her wealthy but vain and egotistical aunt Elizabeth Ames in Boston. Pat insists on bringing her beloved dog Banjo when she boards the train north. Since Pat does not want to leave her dog alone, she travels by Banjo's side in the baggage car, where she meets and befriends Bill, who works for the railroad.
My Brother Talks to Horses (1947)
, 1h32Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, Peter Lawford, Edward Arnold, Charles Ruggles, Spring Byington, O. Z. Whitehead
Roles Mr. Mordecai
Rating60%
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose (Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins) claims that he can converse with horses-and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder (Charles Ruggles), who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John (Peter Lawford) carries on a romance with the lovely Martha (Beverly Tyler).
The Lost Weekend (1945)
, 1h41Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Terry, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen
Roles Black Man Talking to Himself (uncredited)
Rating78%
Thursday - An alcoholic New York writer, Don Birnam, is packing for a weekend vacation with his brother Wick, who is trying to discourage his drinking. When Don’s girlfriend Helen comes to see them off, she mentions in passing that she has two tickets for a concert, to which Don urges Wick to accompany her. Don heads for Nat’s Bar, deliberately missing his train, and then sneaks back into the flat to drink some cheap whisky he has bought, avoiding Helen who is worried about him being left alone.
Dillinger (1945)
, 1h10Directed by Max Nosseck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys, Elisha Cook, Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, Marc Lawrence
Roles Un prisonnier
Rating64%
The story begins with a newsreel summing up the gangster life of John Dillinger in detail. At the end of the newsreel, Dillinger's father (Victor Kilian) walks onto the stage and speaks to the movie audience about his son's childhood back in Indiana. He talks of John’s childhood as having been ordinary and not very eventful, but concedes that his son had ambitions and wanted to go his own way. The young Dillinger left his childhood town to find his fortune in Indianapolis, but soon ran out of money. The scene fades to a restaurant, where he is on a date and finds himself humiliated by the waiter who refuses to accept a check for the meal; unable to pay for the meal, he excuses himself, runs into a nearby grocery store and robs it for $7.20 in cash. He makes the clerk at the store believe he has a gun in his hand under the jacket.
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
, 2h10Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Adventure
Themes Films about writers
Actors Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, C. Aubrey Smith, John Carradine
Rating70%
A group of people are watching Halley's Comet overhead when Judge Clemens is called away for the birth of his son, Samuel Clemens. The film proceeds to mix in elements of many of Clemens' best-known stories as if they actually occurred. Thus, as he grows up, Sam plays with his friends Huck, Tom, and the slave boy Jim on a raft on the Mississippi, providing a fictitious "real–life" basis for the novels Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
, 7minutesGenres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Ruby Dandridge, Vivian Dandridge, Lillian Randolph, Ernest Whitman
Rating60%
C'est l'histoire revisitée de Boucles d'or et les Trois Ours, dans laquelle ces derniers sont musiciens de jazz, à laquelle s'ajoutent les personnages du Petit Chaperon rouge et du Grand méchant loup.
The Impostor (1944)
, 1h30Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Escroquerie
Actors Jean Gabin, Ellen Drew, Richard Whorf, Dennis Moore, Ralph Morgan, Peter van Eyck
Roles Ekoua
Rating62%
Clement (Gabin), a condemned murderer literally minutes away from the guillotine, is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape he steals the uniform and identification papers of a dead French soldier. He then hides from the law by joining the Resistance movement. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reform him. In the end he sacrifices himself in service of his country.
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
, 1h38Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Ethel Waters, Eddie Anderson, Lena Horne, Rex Ingram, Oscar Polk, Mantan Moreland
Roles Jim Henry
Rating70%
Little Joe, a man killed over gambling debts, is restored to life by angelic powers and given six months to redeem his soul and become worthy of entering Heaven—otherwise he will be condemned to Hell. Secretly guided by "The General" (the Lord's Angel), Little Joe gives up his shiftless ways and becomes a hardworking, generous, and loving husband to his wife Petunia, whom he had previously neglected. Unfortunately, demon Lucifer Jr. (the son of Satan himself), is determined to drag Little Joe to Hell. Lucifer arranges for Joe to become wealthy by winning a lottery, reintroduces Joe to beautiful gold-digger Georgia Brown, and manipulates marital discord between Joe and Petunia. Little Joe abandons his wife for Georgia, and the two embark on a life of hedonistic pleasure. As Little Joe and Georgia celebrate at a nightclub one evening, Petunia joins them, determined to win Joe back. Little Joe fights with Domino for Petunia and she prays for God to destroy the nightclub. A cyclone appears and leaves the nightclub in ruins, as Joe and Petunia lie dead in the ruins after being shot by Domino. Just as it appears that Joe's soul is lost forever, the angelic General informs him that Georgia was so affected by the tragedy that she has donated all the money that he had given her to the church. On this technicality, Little Joe is allowed to go to Heaven with Petunia. As the two climb the Celestial Stairs, Joe suddenly wakes in his own bed. He had not been killed in the initial gambling-debt fracas—he had only received a concussion, and all his supposed dealings with angels and demons were only a fever dream. Now genuinely reformed, Little Joe begins a new, happy life with his loving Petunia.
The Human Comedy (1943)
, 1h58Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig, Marsha Hunt, Fay Bainter, Ray Collins
Roles Un homme dans le train
Rating69%
Stormy Weather (1943)
, 1h18Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Katherine Dunham, Fayard Nicholas, Dooley Wilson, Stymie Beard
Roles Jim Europe (uncredited)
Rating72%
Évocation de numéros de danse, de musiciens, de chanteurs et chanteuses qui ont marqué l'histoire du jazz entre 1919 et 1940.
The Bugle Sounds (1942)
, 1h42Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Lewis Stone, Henry O'Neill, George Bancroft, Donna Reed
Roles Cartaret
Rating60%
In 1941, Colonel Lawton (Lewis Stone) of the 19th Cavalry Regiment has to convert his unit from horses to tanks. Sergeant Patrick Aloysius 'Hap' Doan (Wallace Beery) has a hard time with the adjustments.
Blues in the Night (1941)
, 1h28Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Betty Field, Priscilla Lane, Richard Whorf, Rosemary Lane, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Carson
Roles Black Prisoner #1
Rating66%
While playing in a bar in St. Louis, jazz pianist Jigger Pine meets aspiring clarinetist Nickie Haroyen who tries to convince him to put together a jazz band. After a drunk patron starts a fight, Nickie and Jigger are thrown in jail with Jigger's drummer and bassist. They hear a prisoner singing a blues song and are inspired to set out for New Orleans where they hope to learn how to perfect an authentic bluesy sound. There they meet fast-talking trumpet player Leo and his wife Character who is a talented singer. Together, the quintet rides the rails, honing their technique in dive bars across the country.
Road to Zanzibar (1941)
, 1h31Directed by Victor Schertzinger, Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Douglass Dumbrille, Una Merkel, Iris Adrian
Roles Whiteface
Rating66%
The film starts with con-artist Chuck Reardon (Bing Crosby) as a side-show caller at a circus advertising an act featuring his friend Hubert "Fearless" Frazier (Bob Hope), as a human cannonball, with 'Fearless' quickly substituting a dummy at the last minute and hiding in a secret compartment. The flaming dummy sets the big tent on fire and everyone into a panic and the two of them flee. Their subsequent acts show 'Fearless' doing more dangerous acts, usually getting injured. When Chuck brings the next 'great idea', wrestling a live octopus, 'Fearless' finally balks and wants to go back to the states. At a fancy restaurant, they're sent champagne by a wealthy man, diamond baron Charles Kimble (Eric Blore). The festive mood turns sour when the police show up, but Kimble bails them out. They decide to go home to the United States, but when Chuck goes to get the tickets Kimble invites him onto his yacht for a drink.
Among the Living (1941)
, 1h7Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey, Frances Farmer, Gordon Jones, Rod Cameron
Roles Pompey
Rating63%
Albert Dekker plays twins, John and Paul. Paul was supposed to have died when he was 10 years old, but actually went insane and was shut up in a secret room in his parents' mansion.