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Acting

James Whitmore

Career: Active from 1949 to 2002, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 46
top three billing

Average score: 63/100

Highest rated: The Shawshank Redemption
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 85 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

James Whitmore Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.4, average 5.4
Cringe Humor
1.0, average 2.2
Absurdist Humor
1.0, average 2.0
Situational Comedy
1.7, average 2.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Moral Ambiguity 7
Historical Drama 4
Social Commentary 4
Character Study 4
Classic Hollywood 3
Character-Driven 3
WWII Drama 2
Tension & Suspense 2
Biographical Drama 2
1950s 2
Western 2
Adventure 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

148

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

Tony e il Professore

TV show · as il professore

2000s

6 titles · average score 63

Mister Sterling

80

TV show · as William Sterling Sr.

A Minute with Stan Hooper

60

TV show · as Dr. Goldman

A Ring of Endless Light

59

as Grandfather

The Majestic

50

as Stan Keller

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

68

TV show · as Milton

Here's to Life!

as Gus Corley

1990s

7 titles · average score 68

Swing Vote

58

as Daniel Morissey

The Relic

50

as Dr. Albert Frock

The Practice

76

TV show · as Raymond Oz

The Shawshank Redemption

88

as Brooks Hatlen

as Pope Pius XI (voice)

Old Explorers

as Leinen Roth

Sky High

as Gus Johnson

1980s

17 titles · average score 67

Glory! Glory!

74

as Lester Babbitt

Nuts

54

as Judge Stanley Murdoch

The Adventures of Mark Twain

76

as Mark Twain (voice)

Celebrity

71

TV show · as Clifford Casey

Love Those Trains

as Narrator

Hail Columbia!

as Narrator

The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America

as Narrator

American Playhouse

69

TV show · as Joe Keller

Rage!

as Borski

The Golden Honeymoon

as Charley Tate

The First Deadly Sin

56

as Dr. Sanford Ferguson

Mark, I Love You

as Dwight Hamilton

1970s

19 titles · average score 63

The Word

TV show · as George Wheeler

The Flying Misfits

75

as Capt. James 'Jim' Gutterman

I Will Fight No More Forever

72

as General Oliver O. Howard

Give 'em Hell, Harry!

87

as Harry S. Truman

Where the Red Fern Grows

51

as Grandpa

The Canterville Ghost

as Hyram B. Otis

The Balloon Vendor

as Antonio

High Crime

68

as Commissioner Aldo Scavino

The Harrad Experiment

31

as Philip Tenhausen

Chato's Land

63

as Joshua Everette

Temperatures Rising

TV show · as Vincent Campanelli

The Challenge

69

as Overman

1960s

48 titles · average score 66

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

52

as Levi

TV show · as Prof. John Woodruff

Planet of the Apes

82

as President of the Assembly

Madigan

67

as Chief Inspector Charles Kane

Nobody's Perfect

as Capt. Mike Riley

Chuka

53

as Lou Trent

The Tenderfoot

as Captain Ewell

Black Like Me

69

as John Finley Horton

The Tenderfoot

TV show · as Captain Ewell

The Virginian

70

TV show · as Ezra Hollis / Carl Kabe

The Law and Mr. Jones

TV show · as Abraham Lincoln Jones

Who Was That Lady?

55

as Harry Powell

1950s

46 titles · average score 64

The Eddy Duchin Story

62

as Lou Sherwood

Crime in the Streets

61

as Ben Wagner

Battle Cry

58

as MSgt. Mac

The McConnell Story

59

as SSgt. / Maj . / Col. Ty 'Dad' Whitman

Them!

76

as Sgt. Ben Peterson

The Command

53

as Sgt. Elliott

Above and Beyond

64

as Maj. William M. Uanna

Because You're Mine

50

as Sergeant 'Bat' Batterson

Shadow in the Sky

64

as Lou Hopke

The Asphalt Jungle

85

as Gus Minissi

The Next Voice You Hear...

60

as Joe Smith

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

68

as John Malone

1940s

4 titles · average score 70

The Undercover Man

63

as George Pappas

Battleground

76

as Kinnie

Studio One

65

TV show · as Sam

Kraft Television Theatre

78

TV show