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Richard Whorf is a Actor, Director and Producer American born on 4 june 1906 at Winthrop (USA)

Richard Whorf

Richard Whorf
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Nationality USA
Birth 4 june 1906 at Winthrop (USA)
Death 14 december 1966 (at 60 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

Richard Whorf (June 4, 1906 – December 14, 1966) was an American actor, author, director, and designer.

Richard was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, to Harry and Sarah (Lee) Whorf. Richard's older brother was the well-known American linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf. Whorf began his acting career on the Boston stage as a teenager then moved to Broadway at age 21. He had a role in a production of Taming of the Shrew at the Globe Theatre in New York City. He moved to Hollywood and became a contract player in films of the 1930s and 1940s, before becoming a director in 1944.

Whorf played a famous painter who had resorted to drinking in the 1960 episode "The Illustrator" of ABC's The Rifleman, starring Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford. He directed a number of television programs in the 1950s and 1960s, the best known being the CBS hit comedy The Beverly Hillbillies, starring Buddy Ebsen. He directed the short-lived 1959 syndicated adventure series, Border Patrol, and the 1964-1965 ABC sitcom, Mickey, starring Mickey Rooney. In the summer of 1960, he guest starred in one episode and directed other segments of the short-lived David McLean western series, Tate.

Whorf directed the unsuccessful 1961 stage comedy Julia, Jake and Uncle Joe.

Whorf's hobby was painting - he sold his first painting at the age of fifteen for US$100. Many of his small town landscape paintings reflected his American worldview and seemed to be inspired by painters like Grant Wood and Norman Rockwell.

He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.

Best films

Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle Dandy
(1942)
(Actor)

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(5 films)
Hume Cronyn
Hume Cronyn
(3 films)
Chester Erskine
Chester Erskine
(2 films)
Gloria Grahame
Gloria Grahame
(3 films)
James Brown
James Brown
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Richard Whorf (23 films)

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Actor

Chain Lightning
Chain Lightning (1950)
, 1h34
Directed by Don Alvarado, Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Eleanor Parker, Raymond Massey, Richard Whorf, James Brown, James Brown
Roles Carl Troxell
Rating60% 3.001213.001213.001213.001213.00121
Lt. Colonel Matt Brennan (Humphrey Bogart), discharged from the military, runs a civilian flying school, where he is reunited with an old US Army Air Force buddy, Major Hinkle (James Brown).
Christmas Holiday
Christmas Holiday (1944)
, 1h33
Directed by Robert Siodmak, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Felix Jackson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf, Gale Sondergaard, Gladys George, Eddie Acuff
Roles Simon Fenimore
Rating64% 3.2471753.2471753.2471753.2471753.247175
Army officer Charlie Mason meets beautiful Maison Lafitte hostess Jackie (her real name is Abigail Manette). She tells him the story of the decline of her marriage with the charming but unbalanced Robert Manette. When her husband kills a bookie his controlling mother tries to cover it up. When he is caught she and her son blame Abigail. Abigail, feeling guilty when her husband receives a life sentence, becomes a bar hostess. Meanwhile, Robert escapes from jail and comes to see Abigail, but he is shot by police and dies in her arms, leaving her to start again with Charlie Mason.
Blonde Fever
Blonde Fever (1944)
, 1h9
Directed by Richard Whorf
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Philip Dorn, Mary Astor, Gloria Grahame, Felix Bressart, Marshall Thompson, Ava Gardner
Roles Chef (uncredited)
Rating54% 2.7074252.7074252.7074252.7074252.707425
Peter Donay (Philip Dorn) is the not so happy owner of the Café Donay, which is a fancy road side establishment somewhere in between Reno and Lake Tahoe in Nevada. His marriage isn’t what it should be and he has a gambling addiction. One day he meets the curvy night club waitress Sally Murfin (Gloria Grahame), who really is a lot more interested in Peter’s money and business than anything else. Peter’s wife, Delilah (Mary Astor), knows about her husband's love affair, and is determined to get rid of Sally by tricking her that there is no money to be had from Peter, by telling Sally about the gambling and lying about the business being poor. Her plan doesn’t work, and instead Delilah tries to split them up by hiring Sally’s beau Freddie Bilson (Marshall Thompson) as a waiter and let him stay above their garage. Her plan goes to waste, when Sally overhears that Peter is the winner of $40,000 in a lottery. Now Sally is more determined to lay her hands on Peter. Sallys’s advances on Peter makes Freddie very jealous and outraged, and eventually Freddie pulls a gun on Peter and threatens to shoot him. Peter confesses that he and Sally are in love and to be married, and Delilah asks Peter for a divorce, asking him for the $40,000 lottery ticket as her lot in the settlement. Peter refuses at first, but eventually he gives in and gives her the money. Full of regret, he then tells Sally’s friend Johnny about his mistake, and that he wants his wife back. Sally is outraged when she hears about the settlement, and is more interested in Freddie, now that Delilah has bought him a new motorcycle. Sally disappears with Freddie, and Peter begs his wife Delilah for forgiveness, and gets it. It turns out she was bluffing about divorcing and leaving him all along, when her suitcase opens up as they kiss and make up, showing that it was empty. At the end of the movie Astor winks to the camera and smiles.
The Impostor
The Impostor (1944)
, 1h30
Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Escroquerie
Actors Jean Gabin, Ellen Drew, Richard Whorf, Dennis Moore, Ralph Morgan, Peter van Eyck
Roles Lt. Varenne
Rating63% 3.187643.187643.187643.187643.18764
Clement (Gabin), a condemned murderer literally minutes away from the guillotine, is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape he steals the uniform and identification papers of a dead French soldier. He then hides from the law by joining the Resistance movement. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reform him. In the end he sacrifices himself in service of his country.
Assignment in Brittany
Assignment in Brittany (1943)
, 1h36
Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Jean-Pierre Aumont, Susan Peters, Margaret Wycherly, Signe Hasso, Richard Whorf, George Coulouris
Roles Jean Kerenor
Rating65% 3.288443.288443.288443.288443.28844
Free French Captain Pierre Matard (Jean-Pierre Aumont) is assigned the task of locating a concealed U-boat pen in occupied France due to his striking resemblance to Bertrand Corlay, a suspected Nazi collaborator being held prisoner by the British.
The Cross of Lorraine
The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
, 1h30
Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Hume Cronyn, Richard Whorf
Roles François
Rating65% 3.292763.292763.292763.292763.29276
At the start of World War II, Frenchmen from all walks of life enlist. Defeated by the invading Germans in 1940, Marshal Philippe Pétain signs a peace agreement and the troops surrender. However, instead of being repatriated to their homes, a group of soldiers find themselves in a brutal prison camp. Most of the men resist as best they can, and some, like Paul (Jean-Pierre Aumont), are willing to spend time in solitary confinement and be subjected to beatings, while others, such as Duval (Hume Cronyn), collaborate with their jailers to get an easier life. The men find solace from Father Sebastian (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), a priest who was also in the army and who counsels them wisely. Eventually Paul helps his fellow prisoners to escape. When they liberate a village, they realise that continued fighting is the only option, so they join the French Resistance.
Keeper of the Flame
Keeper of the Flame (1943)
, 1h40
Directed by George Stevens, George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker, Darryl Hickman
Roles Clive Kerndon
Rating66% 3.3478553.3478553.3478553.3478553.347855
When national hero Robert Forrest is killed in an automobile accident, the entire United States goes into deep mourning. Admirer and renowned journalist Stephen O'Malley (Spencer Tracy) returns from Europe to write a biography of the great man. Among the throngs covering the funeral, he finds his old friends and fellow reporters, Jane Harding (Audrey Christie) and Freddie Ridges (Stephen McNally). They remain after the rest of the press leave.
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
, 2h6
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp
Roles Sam Harris
Rating75% 3.795823.795823.795823.795823.79582
In the early days of World War II, Cohan comes out of retirement to star as President Roosevelt in the Rodgers and Hart musical I'd Rather Be Right. On the first night, he is summoned to meet the President at the White House, who presents him with a Congressional Gold Medal (in fact, this happened several years previously). Cohan is overcome and chats with Roosevelt, recalling his early days on the stage. The film flashes back to his supposed birth on July 4, whilst his father is performing on the vaudeville stage.
Juke Girl
Juke Girl (1942)
, 1h30
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Richard Whorf, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart, Alan Hale
Roles Danny Frazier
Rating62% 3.147433.147433.147433.147433.14743
This script must be run from the command line
Blues in the Night
Blues in the Night (1941)
, 1h28
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Betty Field, Priscilla Lane, Richard Whorf, Rosemary Lane, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Carson
Roles Jigger Pine
Rating66% 3.34263.34263.34263.34263.3426
While playing in a bar in St. Louis, jazz pianist Jigger Pine meets aspiring clarinetist Nickie Haroyen who tries to convince him to put together a jazz band. After a drunk patron starts a fight, Nickie and Jigger are thrown in jail with Jigger's drummer and bassist. They hear a prisoner singing a blues song and are inspired to set out for New Orleans where they hope to learn how to perfect an authentic bluesy sound. There they meet fast-talking trumpet player Leo and his wife Character who is a talented singer. Together, the quintet rides the rails, honing their technique in dive bars across the country.
Midnight
Midnight (1934)
, 1h16
Directed by Chester Erskine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Sidney Fox, Henry Hull, O. P. Heggie, Margaret Wycherly, Humphrey Bogart, Lynne Overman
Roles Arthur Weldon
Rating55% 2.7506152.7506152.7506152.7506152.750615
Une femme accusée de crime passionnel risque d'être envoyée sur la chaise électrique par un jury populaire, mené par l'intransigeant Edward Weldon. Il se retrouve face à un dilemme quand sa propre fille est elle-aussi accusée d'un crime.

Director

Champagne for Caesar
Champagne for Caesar (1950)
, 1h39
Directed by Richard Whorf
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about television
Actors Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, Barbara Britton, Art Linkletter, Mel Blanc
Rating73% 3.689423.689423.689423.689423.68942
Beauregard Bottomley (Ronald Colman) is an unemployed PhD physicist who lives in Los Angeles with his piano-instructor sister Gwenn (Barbara Britton) and the alcohol-guzzling parrot of the film's title, Caesar. Beauregard and Gwenn live in a bungalow court, surrounded by books. Beauregard is an omnivorous reader, and is highly knowledgeable on virtually any subject - except, as he admits, how to hold a job. Beauregard obtains word of a mysterious job opportunity at the Milady Soap Company. He meets the eccentric company owner, Burnbridge Waters (Vincent Price), for the job interview. Waters disapproves of Beauregard's humour and turns him down for the job, humiliating him in the process.