Gayne Whitman
American actor (1890–1958)
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Gayne Whitman (born Alfred D. Vosburgh; March 19, 1890 – August 31, 1958) was an American radio and film actor.[1] He appeared in more than 200 films between 1904 and 1957. In some early films, he was credited under his birth name.
March 19, 1890
Gayne Whitman | |
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Whitman in 1916 | |
| Born | Alfred D. Vosburgh March 19, 1890 |
| Died | August 31, 1958 (aged 68) |
| Other names | Alfred Whitman |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1904-1957 |
| Spouse | Estelle Margaret Allen (1893-1970) |
Whitman was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 19, 1890.[2]
Whitman's theatrical debut came when he carried a spear behind an actor portraying King Richard III in a production in Indianapolis.[3] He acted around the midwestern United States as a member of stock theater companies before going to Hollywood in 1913, shifting his focus to films.[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."[4]
Beginning in 1921, Whitman acted at the Morosco Theater in Los Angeles.[4] He returned to films in 1925 when he received a contract with Warner Bros.[5]
On radio, Whitman played the title role in Chandu the Magician,[6] was the narrator on Lassie[6]: 192-193 and Strange as It Seems,[6]: 319 and was an announcer on Paducah Plantation[6]: 264 and other programs.
Personal life
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[8]
- 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)