James Westerfield
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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.
Fotos
Películas (57)
Dead Aim
1975 · John Applebee
Set This Town on Fire
1973 · Cark Rickter
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
1970 · Sheriff Berry
Bartleby
1969 · The Lawyer
The Love God?
1969 · Rev. Wilkerson
True Grit
1969 · Judge Parker
Smith!
1969 · Sheriff
Now You See It, Now You Don't
1968 · Capt. Boyle
Blue
1968 · Abe Parker
Hang 'em High
1968 · Prisoner
A Man Called Gannon
1968 · Amos
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966 · Jack Balter
Scalplock
1966 · Nehemiah
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
1965 · Charley Mardis
That Funny Feeling
1965 · Officer Brokaw
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965 · Mr. Vennar
Bikini Beach
1964 · Cop #2
Man's Favorite Sport?
1964 · Policeman
Son of Flubber
1963 · Officer Hanson
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962 · Jess Younger
Homicidal
1961 · Alfred S. Adrims
The Absent-Minded Professor
1961 · Officer Hanson
Alcatraz Express
1961
The Plunderers
1960 · Mike Baron
Wild River
1960 · Cal Garth
The Hangman
1959 · Herb Loftus
The Gunfight at Dodge City
1959 · Reverend Howard
The Shaggy Dog
1959 · Officer Hanson
Old Man
1958 · Warden
The Proud Rebel
1958 · Birm Bates
Cowboy
1958 · Mike Adams
Decision at Sundown
1957 · Otis, the Bartender
Jungle Heat
1957 · Harvey Mathews
The Helen Morgan Story
1957 · Frank Piggin
Three Brave Men
1956 · Chief O'Reilly
Away All Boats
1956
Lucy Gallant
1955 · Harry Wilson
Man with the Gun
1955 · Mr. Zender
The Scarlet Coat
1955 · Col. Jameson
The Cobweb
1955 · James Petlee
Chief Crazy Horse
1955 · Caleb Mantz
The Violent Men
1955 · Sheriff Magruder
Three Hours to Kill
1954 · Sam Minor
The Human Jungle
1954 · Marty Harrison
On the Waterfront
1954 · Big Mac
The Bachelor Party
1953 · Bookkeeper
The Whistle at Eaton Falls
1951 · Joe London
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950 · Harvey (Zoo Attendant) (uncredited)
Side Street
1950 · Charlie (policeman)
The Chase
1946 · Job the Butler
Undercurrent
1946 · Henry Gilson
Around the World
1943 · Bashful Marine
The Pride of the Yankees
1942 · Spectator (uncredited)
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 · Policeman at Accident (uncredited)
About Face
1942 · Soldier with Daisy (uncredited)
Highway West
1941 · Swede, Trucker at Cafe
The Howards of Virginia
1940 · Backwoodsman
Series (54)
The Outcasts
1968
Mayberry R.F.D.
1968 · Sheriff Matson
Mannix
1967
Judd, for the Defense
1967
The Time Tunnel
1966 · Sheriff
The Wild Wild West
1965 · McAvity
Green Acres
1965
Lost in Space
1965 · Dr. Marvello
The Big Valley
1965 · Jeb Lassiter
Profiles in Courage
1964 · Sen. Samuel Pomeroy
Daniel Boone
1964 · Hand, Simon Girty
Bewitched
1964
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1963 · John Murrel
The Great Adventure
1963 · Attorney Thomas Green
The Dakotas
1963
Going My Way
1962
The Lucy Show
1962 · Weitzman
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Straightaway
1961
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
The Andy Griffith Show
1960 · Uncle Ollie
My Three Sons
1960
Thriller
1960 · Al Matthews
The Tall Man
1960
The Alaskans
1959
The Rebel
1959 · Suee
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Anthony O'Toole
Johnny Ringo
1959 · Aben Burke
Law of the Plainsman
1959 · Joshua Jones
Bonanza
1959 · Arthur Blackwell
Tightrope
1959
Rawhide
1959 · Matt Lucas, Mort Henry
Bat Masterson
1958 · Shapley Howell
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
The Rifleman
1958
The Texan
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · Dr. Langland
Trackdown
1957
The Walter Winchell File
1957
Maverick
1957
Perry Mason
1957 · Sheriff Elmore, Roger Quigley
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957 · McAllister
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Bert Farrow
State Trooper
1956
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · Mapes
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Commissioner Cummings, Pops Lafferty
Gunsmoke
1955 · Rance Bradley, Harry Duggan, Cleed, Franks
Lassie
1954
Inner Sanctum
1954
General Electric Theater
1953 · Bartender, The General
Casey, Crime Photographer
1951
Studio One
1948 · Captain James Reagan, Bilgeboy / Jimmy Scaggs
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · H.T. Carmichael