Ernest Whitman

Acting

Born February 21, 1893, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Ernest Whitman was born on February 21, 1893, in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was a Negro actor, known for Road to Zanzibar (1941), Cabin in the Sky (1943) and The Return of Frank James (1940). He died on August 5, 1954, in Hollywood, California, of a heart attack.

Filmography

• 20043: The Dale Earnhardt Story — Pit Crowd
• 1953The Sun Shines Bright — Pleasant 'Uncle Plez' Woodford
• The Beulah Show — Bill Jackson
• 1948Half-Pint Pygmy — Pygmy (voice) (uncredited)
• 1947Banjo — Uncle Jasper
• 1947Blonde Savage — Tonga
• 1947My Brother Talks to Horses — Mr. Mordecai
• 1945Dillinger — Jack - Black Prisoner (uncredited)
• 1945The Lost Weekend — Black Man Talking to Himself (uncredited)
• 1944Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears
• 1943Cabin in the Sky — Jim Henry
• 1943Stormy Weather — Jim Europe (uncredited)
• 1941Among the Living — Pompey
• 1941Road to Zanzibar — Whiteface
• 1941The Get-Away — Moose Jones
• 1941The Pittsburgh Kid — Feets Johnson
• 1940Buck Benny Rides Again — Colored Gentleman
• 1940Castle on the Hudson — Alexander '8 Ball' Hamilton (uncredited)
• 1940Congo Maisie — Varnai
• 1940Maryland — Clarence "Dogface" Reems
• 1940Mystery Sea Raider — First Fisherman
• 1940Safari — Witch doctor
• 1940Santa Fe Trail — Black Man in Barn (uncredited)
• 1940The Return of Frank James — Pinky
• 1940Third Finger, Left Hand — Sam
• 19396,000 Enemies — Willie (uncredited)
• 1939Gone with the Wind — Carpetbagger's Friend (uncredited)
• 1939Jesse James — Pinkie
• 1939Pacific Liner — Professor - Black Stoker (uncredited)
• 1939Tell No Tales — Slab Griffin (uncredited)
• 1937Daughter of Shanghai — Sam Blike, Sam Blike (uncredited)
• 1937They Gave Him a Gun — Roustabout (uncredited)
• 1936The Green Pastures — Pharaoh
• 1936The Prisoner of Shark Island — Buck
• 1936White Hunter — Abdi
• 1934King for a Day — Mr. Brown