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Known For

Stuart Whitman is known for:

  • The Day the Earth Stood Still
    An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
  • The Longest Day
    The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
  • Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes
    In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?

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Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Stuart Maxwell Whitman (February 1, 1928 – March 16, 2020) was an American actor. Whitman was arguably best-known for playing Marshal Jim Crown in the western television series Cimarron Strip in 1967. Whitman also starred with John Wayne in the Western movie, The Comancheros, in 1961, and received top billing as the romantic lead in the extravagant aerial epic Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines in 1965. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stuart Whitman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.