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Actor Whitmore passes away -
8 February 2009
-Actor James Whitmore has died of lung cancer, aged 87.-
-The Emmy and Tony award winning star was diagnosed with the illness in November (08) and passed away on Friday (06Feb09) afternoon at his home in Malibu, California.-
- Whitmore was famed for his one-man shows a
James Whitmore - what members say
review by A customer from London
Is It Really The Master's Mistake? 17 September 2004
review by from Leicester, England
The Shawshank Redemption - Review 28 April 2006
James Whitmore - filmography
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A Ring of Endless Light
(2002)
Starring: Mischa Barton, Ryan Merriman, Jared Padalecki
Director: Greg Beeman
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Based on the Novel by Madeline L'Engle. During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukaemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.
 
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The Relic
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt
Director: Peter Hyams
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Plucky evolutionary biologist Dr. Margo Green (Penelope Ann Miller) joins forces with tough Chicago cop Lt. Vincent D'Agosta (Tom Sizemore) to unravel the mystery behind the horribly mangled corpses that keep popping up around her museum during an opening night gala. When they investigate further ..read more »
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Hail Columbia
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: James Whitmore
Director: Graeme Ferguson
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In 1981, the first space shuttle made her maiden voyage, capturing the imagination of the world. It was a technological feat which launched America back into the forefront of space exploration. Hail Columbia!, is produced by Graeme Ferguson and Roman Kroitor and portrays the story of the space ..read more »
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The Shawshank Redemption
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: James Whitmore, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman
Director: Frank Darabont
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City Banker Andy Dufresne is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder. There he meets Red and also forms friendships with the warden and prison guards. Andy soon finds that you either get on with living or you get on with dying. The bonus features stretch over two ..read more »
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The Adventures Of Mark Twain
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: James Whitmore, Michele Mariana, Gary Krug
Director: Will Vinton
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The first full-length feature film in claymation, the process of animating clay frame by frame. A fantasy account of Mark Twain's last journey in a contraption, part balloon part Mississippi riverboat, to travel round the world to intercept Halley's Comet.
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The Serpent's Egg
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Frobe
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
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This unusual political drama by Ingmar Bergman was filmed at Bavaria Film Studios in Munich during the director's exile from Sweden after encountering problems with tax officials back home. THE SERPENT'S EGG, a big-budget German-American coproduction, was Bergman's second work in English after THE ..read more »
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The Harrad Experiment
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: James Whitmore, Tippi Hedren, Don Johnson
Director: Ted Post
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A sensuous & appealing screen production of the best seller by Robert Rimmer. Two relationships are intimately explored in an experimental coed college which encourages sexual freedom. Actor Don Johnson was involved with co-star Tippi Hedren during filming, before marrying her daughter, Melanie ..read more »
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Chato's Land
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, Richard Basehart
Director: Michael Winner
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After killing a man in self-defenCe, Chato (Charles Bronson), a half-breed Apache, is on the run from a 13-man posse, because that man was the town Sheriff. Vowing to avenge the death of their fallen constable, they follow Chato into the wilderness. Living off the land, he outwits the riders ..read more »
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Planet of the Apes
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
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Originally intended as a project for Blake Edwards, the film version of Pierre Boule's semisatiric sci-fi novel came to the screen in 1968 under the directorial guidance of Franklin J. Schaffner. Charlton Heston is George Taylor, one of several astronauts on a long, long space mission whose ..read more »
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Madigan
(1968)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino
Director: Don Siegel
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It's a seemingly peaceful spring morning in New York City -- graduation day at the Police Academy -- and Police Commissioner Anthony X. Russell (Henry Fonda) is looking forward to giving a speech to the new officers. But all isn't well: Russell's been given apparently incontrovertible evidence that ..read more »
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Who Was That Lady?
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Dean Martin
Director: George Sidney
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After he is caught by his wife kissing one of his students, a university professor cooks up a cover story that he is a spy. This leads to a number difficult situations. Stars Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, who were married in real life.
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Battle Cry
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Dorothy Malone, William Campbell, Anne Francis
Director: Raoul Walsh
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Non-stop action characterises this World War II epic with an all-star cast. The heroic exploits of a Marine battalion are followed from basic training through the bloody invasion of Aaipan. Newsreel and 'Speedy Gonzales' cartoon are a part of this Leon Uris novel brought to the big screen. Academy ..read more »
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Them
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon
Director: Gordon Douglas
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A little girl is found wandering in the desert, in a state of complete shock. When she finally revives, she can scream out only one word: Them! Any aficionado of 1950s horror films can readily tell you that Them are giant ants, a byproduct of the radiation attending the atomic bomb tests of the era...read more »
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The Asphalt Jungle
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern
Director: John Huston
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The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, a left-handed form of human endeavor. Recently paroled master criminal Erwin Doc Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), with funding from crooked attorney Emmerich (..read more »
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Battleground
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy
Director: William A. Wellman
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"Dedicated to the battered bastards of Bastogne," this dramatic historic film directed by William Wellman tells the story of a U.S. Army division in the European theatre near the end of World War II. In a last-ditch effort to turn the tide of the war, the Germans launch a final attack that became ..read more »
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