Crane Whitley
Acting
Biography
Crane Whitley was born on October 28, 1899 in New York City, New York, USA as Clement Samuel Wilenchick. He was an actor, known for The Tiger Woman (1944), The Pilgrimage Play (1949) and Captain America (1944). He died on February 28, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Born: October 27, 1899
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Spy Smasher Returns
Edited version of the 1942 Republic serial "Spy Smasher," cut down to one hour and sold for TV release in 1966 in a syndication package with other truncated Republic serials.
The Lost Weekend
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
To Have and Have Not
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
The Last Warning
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
The Damned Don't Cry
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Who Done It?
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
Mr. Skeffington
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Lucky Jordan
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
O.S.S.
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives.
Pursued
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
Filmography
as Dr. Hauser
as Barfly
as Ruffian (uncredited)
as Cavalry Major
as Chief Meyers
as Hansmann
as Vigilante in Mob (uncredited)
as Greb
as Eddie Hart - Syndicate Boss (uncredited)
as Longinus
as Caid Osman
as Doctor Kemble / Off-Screen Narrator
as Foreman (Uncredited)
as 1st Policeman (uncredited)
as Levender Falls Husband (uncredited)
as Assassin With Cane
as Charlie Moore, hotel manager
as (uncredited)
as General (uncredited)
as Arnheim
as Waiter at Harry & Joe's Bar (uncredited)
as Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
as Colonel (Uncredited)
as Warden Clark (uncredited)
as Inspector Becker
as Henchman Cooper
as Police Captain
as Gaulist (uncredited)
as Sullivan
as Man with Silver
as Tom Dagget
as Louie (uncredited)
as Lt. Cmdr. Hunter (uncredited)
as American Captain
as Chaplain
as A.T. Atkinson
as Officer (uncredited)
as Giuseppe Ormanti
as Gardener
as Radio Actor (uncredited)
as Doctor
as German Sentry
as Pete Saunders
as Hauser
as Ulrich - Henchman
as Gestapo Agent
as Defense Attorney
as Minor Role (uncredited)
as Henchman Pete
as Dist. Atty. Richard Sutton
as Corporal
as Tamley
as Klee
as Henchman
as Detective Slocumbe
as Tough Guy Funeral Observer (uncredited)