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American character actor of rather bizarre range, a member of the so-called John Ford Stock Company. Originally a New York stage actor of some repute, Whitehead entered films in the 1930s. He played a wide variety of character parts, often quite different from his own actual age and type. He is probably most familiar as Al Joad in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940). But twenty-two years later, in his fifth film for Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Whitehead at 51 was playing a lollipop-licking schoolboy! He continued to work predominantly on the stage, appearing now and again in films or on television. In his last years, he suffered from cancer and died in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland, where he had lived in semi-retirement for many years.
Hello, Stranger

Philadelphia, Here I Come
as Ben Burton

The Lion in Winter
as Bishop of Durham

Ulysses
as Alexander J. Dowie

Summer Magic
as Mr. Perkins

Panic in Year Zero!
as Hogan

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Herbert Carruthers

Hazel

Two Rode Together
as Lt. Whitehead

The Horse Soldiers
as Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins

The Last Hurrah
as Norman Cass Jr.

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
as Isaac Goodpasture

Perry Mason
as Harry Beacom

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mr. Newton

Gunsmoke
as Hank Blenis
The Body Beautiful
as Oscar Blunt

Cavalcade of America

Beware, My Lovely
as Mr. Franks

The San Francisco Story
as Alfey

For Men Only
as Prof. Bixby

FBI Girl
as Chauncey

Journey Into Light
as Lippy

Comin' Round the Mountain
as Zeke

The Hoodlum
as Breckenridge

The Scarf
as Whoopie

Ma and Pa Kettle
as Mr. Billings

Suspense
as George Vance

Studio One
as Peter Kovalesky

A Song Is Born
as Professor Oddly

Road House
as Arthur

The Romance of Rosy Ridge
as Ninny Nat

My Brother Talks to Horses
as Mr. Puddy

The Grapes of Wrath
as Al Joad

The Scoundrel
as Calhoun