1911-03-01 ( 114 years old ) in New York City, New York, USA
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.
Movies
The Lion in Winter
1968-08-20
Summer Magic
1963-07-07
Panic in Year Zero!
1962-07-05
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962-04-13
Two Rode Together
1961-05-24
The Horse Soldiers
1959-06-11
The Last Hurrah
1958-12-31
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
1958-12-23
The Body Beautiful
1953-08-10
Beware, My Lovely
1952-08-29
The San Francisco Story
1952-05-11
The San Francisco Story
1952-05-11
For Men Only
1952-01-11
FBI Girl
1951-11-04
Journey Into Light
1951-09-28
Comin' Round the Mountain
1951-07-26
The Hoodlum
1951-07-05
The Scarf
1951-04-06
Ma and Pa Kettle
1949-04-01
A Song Is Born
1948-10-19
Road House
1948-09-22
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947-08-04
My Brother Talks to Horses
1947-02-04
The Grapes of Wrath
1940-03-15
The Scoundrel
1935-04-30
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