Gayne Whitman
Gayne Whitman | |
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Los Angeles, California | |
| Other names | Alfred Whitman |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1904-1957 |
| Spouse | Estelle Margaret Allen (1893-1970) |
Gayne Whitman (born Alfred D. Vosburgh; March 19, 1890 – August 31, 1958) was an American radio and film actor.
Whitman's theatrical debut came when he carried a spear behind an actor portraying King Richard III in a production in Indianapolis.[2]
Allen Vosburgh, he was the leading man in the film Princess of the Dark (1917). Soon after that, he changed his screen name to Alfred Whitman because "1917 was not a good time to have a German sounding name."[3]
Beginning in 1921, Whitman acted at the Morosco Theater in Los Angeles.[3] He returned to films in 1925 when he received a contract with Warner Bros.[4]
On radio, Whitman played the title role in
Personal life
Whitman was married to Estelle Taylor, an actress with a stock theater company in St. Louis.[2] On August 31, 1958, Whitman died of a heart attack in Los Angeles at age 68.[6]
Selected filmography
- A Natural Man (1915, Short) - Karl Holden
- The Substitute Minister (1915, Short) - John Drummond
- The Bluffers (1915, Short) - Tom Murdock
- The Silver Lining (1915, Short) - Richard Grant
- The Solution to the Mystery (1915, Short) - Franklyn Davis
- The Red Circle (1915, Serial)
- Matching Dreams (1916, Short) - Hugh Clayton
- Time and Tide (1916, Short) - Ned Lang
- A Sanitarium Scramble (1916, Short) - Frank Fellows
- Tangled Skeins (1916, Short) - Randall Wellington
- Her Father's Son (1916) - Lt. Richard Harkness
- The Road to Love (1916) - Karan
- The Serpent's Tooth(1917)
- Princess of the Dark (1917)
- Money Madness (1917)
- The Divorcee (1917)
- Sunlight's Last Raid (1917)
- The Flaming Omen (1917)
- When Men Are Tempted (1917)
- Baree, Son of Kazan(1918)
- The Sea Flower (1918)
- Desert Law (1918)
- The End of the Game (1919)
- His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925)
- The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted (1925)
- Three Weeks in Paris {1925}
- A Woman of the Sea (1926)
- Oh! What a Nurse! (1926)
- Hell-Bent for Heaven (1926)
- Sunshine of Paradise Alley (1926)
- The Love Toy (1926)
- The Night Cry (1926)
- Exclusive Rights(1926)
- A Woman's Heart (1926)
- The Woman on Trial (1927)
- Wolves of the Air (1927)
- Stolen Pleasures (1927)
- Backstage (1927)
- In the First Degree (1927)
- Sailors' Wives (1928)
- Lucky Boy (1929)
- Reno (1930)
- Finger Prints (1931)
- Heroes of the Flames (1931)
- Igloo (1932)
- The Sea (1933)
- Art Trouble (1934) short film
- Born to Die (1934) narrator educational short
- Flight Command (1940)
- The Rookie Bear (1941)
- Barney Bear's Victory Garden (1942)
- War Dogs(1943)
- The Masked Marvel (1943)
- The Sickle or the Cross (1949)
References
- ISBN 9781476602875. Retrieved January 13, 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ Newspapers.com.
- ^ ISBN 9780786487905. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7864-4513-4.
- ISBN 9780786409839. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
External links
- Gayne Whitman at IMDb
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