Biography
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.
Filmography
all 33
Movies 25
TV Shows 8
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Summer Magic (1963)
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Hazel (1961)
Two Rode Together (1961)
Chartroose Caboose (1960)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958)
Perry Mason (1957)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
Gunsmoke (1955)
The Body Beautiful (1953)
Cavalcade of America (1952)
Beware, My Lovely (1952)
The San Francisco Story (1952)
For Men Only (1952)
FBI Girl (1951)
Journey Into Light (1951)
Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
The Hoodlum (1951)
The Scarf (1951)
Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
Suspense (1949)
Studio One (1948)
A Song Is Born (1948)
Road House (1948)
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
My Brother Talks to Horses (1947)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Scoundrel (1935)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1911-03-01
Deathday1998-07-29 (87 years old)
Birth NameOothout Zabriskie Whitehead
Birth PlaceManhattan, United States of America
ReligionBaháʼí Faith
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsOothout Zabriskie Whitehead, Zebby
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