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Stuart Whitman

1928–2020 · Actor

Biography

Stuart Maxwell Whitman (February 1, 1928 – March 16, 2020) was an American actor. He was best-known for playing Marshal Jim Crown in the western television series Cimarron Strip in 1967. Whitman also starred with John Wayne in the western movie, The Comancheros, in 1961, and received top billing as the romantic lead in the extravagant aerial epic Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines in 1965.

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Notable Noir Roles

Appointment in Honduras

1953Dir. Jacques Tourneur · Telegrapher (uncredited)

On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied perm…

Crime of Passion

1956Dir. Gerd Oswald · Laboratory Technician

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes h…

The Decks Ran Red

1958Dir. Andrew L. Stone · Leroy Martin

A band of dishonest seamen plans a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.

Full Noir Filmography

3 films · 1953–1958