Stuart Whitman, the rugged actor who starred on TV's Cimarron
Strip and received an Oscar nomination for playing a convicted child
molester trying to rid himself of psychological demons in The Mark, died
at his Montecito, California home on March 16, 2020. He was 92. Born Stuart
Maxwell Whitman on February 1, 1928 in San
Francisco, California,
he made his movie debut in When Worlds Collide (1951), then appeared on
TV shows like Boston Blackie and Lux Video Theatre and made an
impression opposite Ethel Barrymore and Carolyn Jones as the wild title
character in Johnny Trouble (1957). When Charlton Heston bowed out of
the high-profile Warner Bros. war movie Darby’s Rangers (1958), James
Garner replaced him and Whitman took on Garner's role, playing the soldier Hank
Bishop. He starred twice opposite John Wayne, first as the New Orleans gambler
Paul Regret in The Comancheros (1961), Michael Curtiz's final feature,
and then as an army lieutenant in the all-star World War II epic The Longest
Day (1962). Though CBS' Cimarron Strip lasted just one season
(1967-68) and 23 original episodes, Whitman remains known for his turn as Marshal
Jim Crown on the ambitious series, one of the first on television to run for 90
minutes. He produced and had a financial interest in the period Western as well.
He stated that he was offered the role of “The Man With No Name” but turned it
down because it was a terrible script. He did appear in one Euro-western as Griffin in 1971’s “Captain
Apache”.
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