James Westerfield
Biografia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James A. Westerfield (22 March 1913 – 20 September 1971) was an American actor of stage, film, and television. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, to candy-maker Brasher Omier Westerfield and his wife Dora Elizabeth Bailey, he was raised in Detroit, Michigan. (A news story in the June 12, 1949, issue of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle calls the information in the preceding sentence into question. It describes Westerfield as "the son of a famous producer-director" and says that he was "a youngster in Denver, Col.") He became interested in theatre as a young man and in the 1930s joined Gilmor Brown's famed Pasadena Community Playhouse, appearing in dozens of plays. He played in numerous films following his debut in 1940, then went to New York City and appeared on Broadway, winning two New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for his supporting roles in The Madwoman of Chaillot and Detective Story. He then returned to Hollywood and made more than 40 more films. Westerfield maintained an interest in the theatre. He directed more than 50 musicals in a summer-musical tent he owned in Danbury, Connecticut, and was the original stage director and producer for the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. He directed three seasons of "Theatre Under the Stars" in Vancouver, British Columbia, and appeared in musical roles with the Detroit Civic Light Opera, the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, and the San Francisco Civic Light Opera. On film, Westerfield had roles in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), On The Waterfront (1954), Lucy Gallant (1955), the 1957 Budd Boetticher-directed Western Decision at Sundown starring Randolph Scott, Cowboy (1958), a repeating role in The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) and its sequel Son of Flubber (1963), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Man's Favorite Sport (1964), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Hang 'Em High (1968) and True Grit (1969). Westerfield had many roles on television, including seven episodes as John Murrel from 1963 to 1964 on ABC's The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, starring child actor Kurt Russell in the title role. He made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of Sheriff Bert Elmore in the 1957 episode, "The Case of the Angry Mourner." He also appeared in an episode of The Lone Ranger in 1954 entitled "Texas Draw." Westerfield's other appearances were on such series as The Rifleman, The Californians, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, The Alaskans, The Rebel, Straightaway, Going My Way, The Asphalt Jungle, Hazel, The Andy Griffith Show, Daniel Boone, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Gunsmoke. He played the circus leader, Dr. Marvello, in an episode of Lost in Space "Space Circus" (1966). Westerfield as a young man was a roommate of fellow Pasadena Playhouse actor George Reeves. The two remained close friends until Reeves's death in 1959. Westerfield was married to Alice G. Fay (an actress under the name Fay Tracey), who, along with his mother, survived him. Westerfield died from a heart attack in Woodlands Hills, California, at the age of fifty-eight.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Arde Baby, Arde
Film • 1975
jako John Applebee
Set This Town on Fire
Film • 1973
jako Cark Rickter
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
Film • 1970
jako Sheriff Berry
Bartleby
Film • 1969
jako The Lawyer
The Love God?
Film • 1969
jako Rev. Wilkerson
Prawdziwe męstwo
Film • 1969
jako Judge Parker
Smith!
Film • 1969
jako Sheriff
Now You See It, Now You Don't
Film • 1968
jako Capt. Boyle
The Outcasts
Serial • 1968
Mayberry R.F.D.
Serial • 1968
jako Sheriff Matson
Blue
Film • 1968
jako Abe Parker
Powieście go wysoko
Film • 1968
jako Prisoner
A Man Called Gannon
Film • 1968
jako Amos
Mannix
Serial • 1967
Judd, for the Defense
Serial • 1967
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Film • 1966
jako Jack Balter
The Time Tunnel
Serial • 1966
jako Sheriff
Scalplock
Film • 1966
jako Nehemiah
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
Film • 1965
jako Charley Mardis
The Wild Wild West
Serial • 1965
jako McAvity
Green Acres
Serial • 1965
Lost in Space
Serial • 1965
jako Dr. Marvello
The Big Valley
Serial • 1965
jako Jeb Lassiter
That Funny Feeling
Film • 1965
jako Officer Brokaw
Synowie Katie Elder
Film • 1965
jako Mr. Vennar
Profiles in Courage
Serial • 1964
jako Sen. Samuel Pomeroy
Daniel Boone
Serial • 1964
jako Hand
Ożeniłem się z czarownicą
Serial • 1964
Bikini Beach
Film • 1964
jako Cop #2
Ulubiony sport mężczyzn?
Film • 1964
jako Policeman
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Serial • 1963
jako John Murrel
The Great Adventure
Serial • 1963
jako Attorney Thomas Green
Son of Flubber
Film • 1963
jako Officer Hanson
The Dakotas
Serial • 1963
Going My Way
Serial • 1962
The Lucy Show
Serial • 1962
jako Weitzman
The Beverly Hillbillies
Serial • 1962
Ptasznik z Alcatraz
Film • 1962
jako Jess Younger
Straightaway
Serial • 1961
Homicidal
Film • 1961
jako Alfred S. Adrims
The Asphalt Jungle
Serial • 1961
Latający profesor
Film • 1961
jako Officer Hanson
Alcatraz Express
Film • 1961
The Plunderers
Film • 1960
jako Mike Baron
The Andy Griffith Show
Serial • 1960
jako Uncle Ollie
My Three Sons
Serial • 1960
Thriller
Serial • 1960
jako Al Matthews
The Tall Man
Serial • 1960
Dzika rzeka
Film • 1960
jako Cal Garth
The Alaskans
Serial • 1959
The Rebel
Serial • 1959
jako Suee
The Twilight Zone
Serial • 1959
jako Anthony O'Toole
Johnny Ringo
Serial • 1959
jako Aben Burke
Law of the Plainsman
Serial • 1959
jako Joshua Jones
Bonanza
Serial • 1959
jako Arthur Blackwell
Tightrope
Serial • 1959
Człowiek, którego zwano katem
Film • 1959
jako Herb Loftus
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Film • 1959
jako Reverend Howard
Na psa urok
Film • 1959
jako Officer Hanson
Rawhide
Serial • 1959
jako Matt Lucas
Old Man
Film • 1958
jako Warden
Bat Masterson
Serial • 1958
jako Shapley Howell
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Serial • 1958
The Rifleman
Serial • 1958
The Texan
Serial • 1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Serial • 1958
jako Dr. Langland
The Proud Rebel
Film • 1958
jako Birm Bates
Kowboj
Film • 1958
jako Mike Adams
Jeden dzień w Sundown
Film • 1957
jako Otis, the Bartender
Trackdown
Serial • 1957
The Walter Winchell File
Serial • 1957
Maverick
Serial • 1957
Perry Mason
Serial • 1957
jako Sheriff Elmore
Jungle Heat
Film • 1957
jako Harvey Mathews
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Serial • 1957
jako McAllister
The Helen Morgan Story
Film • 1957
jako Frank Piggin
Three Brave Men
Film • 1956
jako Chief O'Reilly
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Serial • 1956
jako Bert Farrow
State Trooper
Serial • 1956
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Serial • 1956
Away All Boats
Film • 1956
Lucy Gallant
Film • 1955
jako Harry Wilson
Man with the Gun
Film • 1955
jako Mr. Zender
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Serial • 1955
jako Mapes
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Serial • 1955
jako Commissioner Cummings
Gunsmoke
Serial • 1955
jako Rance Bradley
Szkarłatny mundur
Film • 1955
jako Col. Jameson
The Cobweb
Film • 1955
jako James Petlee
Wódz Szalony Koń
Film • 1955
jako Caleb Mantz
The Violent Men
Film • 1955
jako Sheriff Magruder
Three Hours to Kill
Film • 1954
jako Sam Minor
The Human Jungle
Film • 1954
jako Marty Harrison
Lassie
Serial • 1954
Na nabrzeżach
Film • 1954
jako Big Mac
Inner Sanctum
Serial • 1954
The Bachelor Party
Film • 1953
jako Bookkeeper
General Electric Theater
Serial • 1953
jako Bartender
The Whistle at Eaton Falls
Film • 1951
jako Joe London
Casey, Crime Photographer
Serial • 1951
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Film • 1950
jako Harvey (Zoo Attendant) (uncredited)
Side Street
Film • 1950
jako Charlie (policeman)
Studio One
Serial • 1948
jako Captain James Reagan
The Philco Television Playhouse
Serial • 1948
Pościg
Film • 1946
jako Job the Butler
W kręgu zła
Film • 1946
jako Henry Gilson
Around the World
Film • 1943
jako Bashful Marine
The Pride of the Yankees
Film • 1942
jako Spectator (uncredited)
Wspaniałość Ambersonów
Film • 1942
jako Policeman at Accident (uncredited)
About Face
Film • 1942
jako Soldier with Daisy (uncredited)
Highway West
Film • 1941
jako Swede, Trucker at Cafe
The Howards of Virginia
Film • 1940
jako Backwoodsman