Ernest Whitman
Acting • Born 1893-02-21 – Died 1954-08-05
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.
Filmography
37 credits
The Get-Away
Movie • 1941
Moose Jones
Third Finger, Left Hand
Movie • 1940
Sam
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Movie • 1936
Buck
King for a Day
Movie • 1934
Mr. Brown
Among the Living
Movie • 1941
Pompey
Banjo
Movie • 1947
Uncle Jasper
6,000 Enemies
Movie • 1939
Willie (uncredited)
White Hunter
Movie • 1936
Abdi
They Gave Him a Gun
Movie • 1937
Roustabout (uncredited)
Tell No Tales
Movie • 1939
Slab Griffin (uncredited)
Pacific Liner
Movie • 1939
Professor - Black Stoker (uncredited)
Jesse James
Movie • 1939
Pinkie
Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1939
Carpetbagger's Friend (uncredited)
Blonde Savage
Movie • 1947
Tonga
The Lost Weekend
Movie • 1945
Black Man Talking to Himself (uncredited)
The Sun Shines Bright
Movie • 1953
Pleasant 'Uncle Plez' Woodford
The Green Pastures
Movie • 1936
Pharaoh
Stormy Weather
Movie • 1943
Jim Europe (uncredited)
The Pittsburgh Kid
Movie • 1941
Feets Johnson
Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears
Movie • 1944
The Return of Frank James
Movie • 1940
Pinky
Santa Fe Trail
Movie • 1940
Black Man in Barn (uncredited)
Buck Benny Rides Again
Movie • 1940
Colored Gentleman
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story
Movie • 2004
Pit Crowd
Castle on the Hudson
Movie • 1940
Alexander '8 Ball' Hamilton (uncredited)
Mystery Sea Raider
Movie • 1940
First Fisherman
Maryland
Movie • 1940
Clarence "Dogface" Reems
Safari
Movie • 1940
Witch doctor
Congo Maisie
Movie • 1940
Varnai
Half-Pint Pygmy
Movie • 1948
Pygmy (voice) (uncredited)
Cabin in the Sky
Movie • 1943
Jim Henry
Road to Zanzibar
Movie • 1941
Whiteface
My Brother Talks to Horses
Movie • 1947
Mr. Mordecai
Daughter of Shanghai
Movie • 1937
Sam Blike
Daughter of Shanghai
Movie • 1937
Sam Blike (uncredited)
Dillinger
Movie • 1945
Jack - Black Prisoner (uncredited)
The Beulah Show
TV • 1950
Bill Jackson