Ernest Whitman
Acting
Biography
Ernest Whitman was born on February 21, 1893, in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was a Negro actor, known for Road to Zanzibar (1941), Cabin in the Sky (1943) and The Return of Frank James (1940). He died on August 5, 1954, in Hollywood, California, of a heart attack.
Born: February 21, 1893
Place of Birth: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Known For
Gone with the Wind
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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.
Banjo
Family drama about a young farm girl, suddenly orphaned, who must give up her beloved dog when she's sent to live with her aunt in Boston.
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story
A biopic of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt, Sr., documenting the driver's career from his earliest days onward and also looking at the family he built along the way. Earnhardt's death in 2001 rocked the sport, but his seven championships and 76 wins made an impact on NASCAR forever.
Stormy Weather
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Third Finger, Left Hand
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
The Prisoner of Shark Island
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
Castle on the Hudson
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Jesse James
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
Cabin in the Sky
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.
Filmography
as Pit Crowd
as Pleasant 'Uncle Plez' Woodford
as Pygmy (voice) (uncredited)
as Tonga
as Uncle Jasper
as Mr. Mordecai
as Black Man Talking to Himself (uncredited)
as Jim Europe (uncredited)
as Jim Henry
as Pompey
as Feets Johnson
as Moose Jones
as Whiteface
as Black Man in Barn (uncredited)
as First Fisherman
as Sam
as Pinky
as Clarence "Dogface" Reems
as Witch doctor
as Colored Gentleman
as Alexander '8 Ball' Hamilton (uncredited)
as Varnai
as Carpetbagger's Friend (uncredited)
as Slab Griffin (uncredited)
as Willie (uncredited)
as Pinkie
as Professor - Black Stoker (uncredited)
as Sam Blike
as Sam Blike (uncredited)
as Roustabout (uncredited)
as Abdi
as Pharaoh
as Buck