James Westerfield

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1913-03-22 (58 years old)

Deathday

1971-09-20

Place of Birth

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

James Westerfield

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 C...

Acting

1962

Birdman of Alcatraz

as Jess Younger

1954

1968

Hang 'em High

as Prisoner

1955

Man with the Gun

as Mr. Zender

1946

The Chase

as Job the Butler

1961

Homicidal

as Alfred S. Adrims

1953

The Bachelor Party

as Bookkeeper

1954

The Human Jungle

as Marty Harrison

1946

Undercurrent

as Henry Gilson

1965

1950

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

as Harvey (Zoo Attendant) (uncredited)

1957

Decision at Sundown

as Otis, the Bartender

1969

True Grit

as Judge Parker

1964

1966

Scalplock

as Nehemiah

1941

Highway West

as Swede, Trucker at Cafe

1960

Wild River

as Cal Garth

1955

The Cobweb

as James Petlee

1959

The Gunfight at Dodge City

as Reverend Howard

1958

The Proud Rebel

as Birm Bates

1971

Dead Aim

as John Applebee

1960

The Plunderers

as Mike Baron

1942

The Pride of the Yankees

as Spectator (uncredited)

1957

Jungle Heat

as Harvey Mathews

1955

The Scarlet Coat

as Col. Jameson

1956

Three Brave Men

as Chief O'Reilly

1950

Side Street

as Charlie (policeman)

1955

The Violent Men

as Sheriff Magruder

1968

Blue

as Abe Parker

1957

The Helen Morgan Story

as Frank Piggin

1973

Set This Town on Fire

as Cark Rickter

1959

The Shaggy Dog

as Officer Hanson

1958

Old Man

as Warden

1958

Cowboy

as Mike Adams

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons

as Policeman at Accident (uncredited)

1959

The Hangman

as Herb Loftus

1961

1940

1963

Son of Flubber

as Officer Hanson

1954

1965

That Funny Feeling

as Officer Brokaw

1969

Bartleby

as The Lawyer

1969

Smith!

as Sheriff

1969

The Love God?

as Rev. Wilkerson

1942

About Face

as Soldier with Daisy (uncredited)

1955

Chief Crazy Horse

as Caleb Mantz

1943

Around the World

as Bashful Marine

1970

1955

Lucy Gallant

as Harry Wilson

1964

Bikini Beach

as Cop #2

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