He Will Fight No More Forever
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Whit-less
Veteran character actor James Whitmore can replace the Miracle-Gro he hawked for years, having succumbed to lung cancer at the age of 87. His career spanned getting killed by giant ants in Them! In 1954 to getting killed by a giant mutant hellbeast in The Relic in 1997. With that kind of success with his co-stars, it’s no wonder some of his greatest successes were in three-long running one-man stage shows, first in Will Rogers, USA, then as Harry Truman in Give ‘Em Hell, Harry, and then as Teddy Roosevelt in Bully. Give ‘Em Hell, Harry was so well received it was filmed in 1975, and Whitmore received his second Oscar nomination, after playing a hard-bitten GI in Battleground, his second screen appearance (1949). He won a Tony in 1947 as a wise-cracking sergeant in Command Decision. In Tora, Tora, Tora, he played Admiral Halsey aboard one of the aircraft carriers so conveniently not located in Pearl Harbor. He played prison librarian and graffiti artist Brooks Hatlen in The Shawshank Redemption, played Josh Brolin’s father, a former governor, in The West Wing wannabe Mister Sterling, and Captain Benteen, leader of a stranded interplanetary expedition who can’t give up his absolute rule when rescue comes in The Twilight Zone classic On Thursday We Leave for Home.
Whit-less
Veteran character actor James Whitmore can replace the Miracle-Gro he hawked for years, having succumbed to lung cancer at the age of 87. His career spanned getting killed by giant ants in Them! In 1954 to getting killed by a giant mutant hellbeast in The Relic in 1997. With that kind of success with his co-stars, it’s no wonder some of his greatest successes were in three-long running one-man stage shows, first in Will Rogers, USA, then as Harry Truman in Give ‘Em Hell, Harry, and then as Teddy Roosevelt in Bully. Give ‘Em Hell, Harry was so well received it was filmed in 1975, and Whitmore received his second Oscar nomination, after playing a hard-bitten GI in Battleground, his second screen appearance (1949). He won a Tony in 1947 as a wise-cracking sergeant in Command Decision. In Tora, Tora, Tora, he played Admiral Halsey aboard one of the aircraft carriers so conveniently not located in Pearl Harbor. He played prison librarian and graffiti artist Brooks Hatlen in The Shawshank Redemption, played Josh Brolin’s father, a former governor, in The West Wing wannabe Mister Sterling, and Captain Benteen, leader of a stranded interplanetary expedition who can’t give up his absolute rule when rescue comes in The Twilight Zone classic On Thursday We Leave for Home.
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