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    Address 6611 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

About
James Whitmore
Born:
1921-01-10,
White Plains,
New York,
USA
Education:
Yale University, CT
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
-0001-11-30
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James Whitmore

James Whitmore was an American film and stage actor.

Born as James Allen Whitmore, Jr., in White Plains, New York, to Florence Belle and James Allen Whitmore, Sr., a park commission official, Whitmore attended Amherst Central High School in Snyder, New York, before graduating from The Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. He went on to study at Yale, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He later was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and served in the United States Marine Corps in the Panama Canal Zone during World War II.

Following World War II, Whitmore appeared on Broadway in the role of the Sergeant in Command Decision. MGM hired Whitmore on contract, but his role in the film adaptation was played by Van Johnson. Whitmore’s first major picture was Battleground, in a role that was turned down by Spencer Tracy, and for which Whitmore was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Other major films included The Asphalt Jungle, The Next Voice You Hear, Above and Beyond, Kiss Me, Kate, Them!,

Oklahoma!, Black Like Me, Guns of the Magnificent Seven,

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