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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
Certificate: 
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: James Whitmore, Penelope Ann Miller, Linda Hunt
Director: Peter Hyams
Certificate: 
Biologist Margo Green (Penelope Ann Miller) teams up with police Lieutenant D'Agosta (Tom Sizemore) to investigate a series of grisly murders at her place of work - the Natural History museum. Can there be a link with the recently-arrived crates belonging to a missing anthropologist from Brazil? ..read more »
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Hail Columbia
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: James Whitmore
Director: Graeme Ferguson
Certificate: 
Originally filmed in the IMAX format and viewed in IMAX cinemas, this version has been digitally mastered from the original 70mm film. James Whitmore narrates this behind the scenes look at the launch of the world's first operational shuttle with astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen. The film ..read more »
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The Shawshank Redemption
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: James Whitmore, Morgan Freeman, Mark Rolston
Director: Frank Darabont
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In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis Red Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most ..read more »
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The Adventures Of Mark Twain
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Gary Krug, James Whitmore, Billy Scream
Director: Will Vinton
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Stop-motion animated feature following Mark Twain (voice of James Whitmore) as he boards an airship and goes searching for Halley's Comet. Born in November, 1835, just after the comet's perihelion, Twain is determined to 'go out' with it when it next reaches its nearest distance to the sun. He ..read more »
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from 28 members
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The Harrad Experiment
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Victoria Thompson, Robert Middleton, James Whitmore
Director: Ted Post
Certificate:
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Tippi Hedren and James Whitmore head the faculty at Harrad College, an unorthodox educational establishment, where not only is freedom of sexuality encouraged, it is mandatory in order to graduate. Centring around four students and their relationships, the film shows how, despite the absence of any ..read more »
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Chato's Land
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Simon Oakland, James Whitmore, Charles Bronson
Director: Michael Winner
Certificate: 
Michael Winner directs this Western frontier thriller starring Charles Bronson as Chato, a half-breed Apache Indian whose life is spent treading the precarious line between two cultures as he tries to balance allegiance to his tribe with his attraction to the white man's world. When he kills a ..read more »
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from 540 members
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Planet of the Apes
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: James Whitmore, James Daly, Charlton Heston
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Certificate: 
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A group of astronauts, led by George Taylor (Charlton Heston), crash land on a strange planet where mute humans are treated as slaves by intelligent apes. Taylor is hunted down and captured by horse-riding gorillas, and then taken for experimentation by sympathetic chimpanzee Dr Zira (Kim Hunter). ..read more »
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from 6,865 members
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Madigan
(1968)
Starring: James Whitmore, 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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from 117 members
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Who Was That Lady?
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Tony Curtis, John McIntire, Simon Oakland
Director: George Sidney
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Classic comedy starring real-life husband and wife, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh as David and Ann Wilson. David is a university professor who is kissing one of his students when Ann walks in on them. She demands a divorce. David turns to his old friend, a television writer, Michael Haney (Dean ..read more »
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Battle Cry
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: James Whitmore, Van Heflin, Van Heflin
Director: Raoul Walsh
Certificate: 
A group of US Marines get fit, find love and go to war in WWII, Van Heflin plays their commander, trying to get his men the tough combat action they yearn for.
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Them
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Joan Weldon, James Whitmore, James Arness
Director: Gordon Douglas
Certificate:
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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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from 2,556 members
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The Asphalt Jungle
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Marc Lawrence, James Whitmore, 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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from 1,555 member
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Battleground
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Jerome Courtland, James Whitmore, Douglas Fowley
Director: William A. Wellman
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In the winter of 1944, a group of American soldiers find themselves surrounded and outnumbered by Nazis at the strategic crossroads of Bastogne. Required to surrender by the Germans, the Americans reply in the negative. As the snow continues to fall, the men in the squad react to the situation in ..read more »
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James Whitmore facts
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