Acting

Crane Whitley

Born October 27, 1899 · New York City, New York, USA

Died February 28, 1958 · aged 58

Crane Whitley was born on October 28, 1899 in New York City, New York, USA as Clement Samuel Wilenchick. He was an actor, known for The Tiger Woman (1944), The Pilgrimage Play (1949) and Captain America (1944). He died on February 28, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Known For

To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not · 1945

To Have and Have Not

MovieAdventureRomance

A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend · 1945

The Lost Weekend

Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

Mr. Skeffington

Mr. Skeffington · 1944

Mr. Skeffington

MovieDramaRomance

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Framed

MovieCrimeDrama

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.

The Flying Deuces

The Flying Deuces · 1939

The Flying Deuces

Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. When they’re arrested for soon trying to desert the Legion—they escape a firing squad by stealing an aircraft.

Spy Smasher

Spy Smasher · 1942

Prior to the United States' involvement in World War II, the masked vigilante Spy Smasher fights Nazi agents operating within the US, led by the treacherous sabotage leader codenamed The Mask.

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns · 1940

The Invisible Man Returns

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Secret Beyond the Door

Secret Beyond the Door · 1947

Secret Beyond the Door

MovieMysteryThriller

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

Filmography

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To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not · 1945

To Have and Have Not

MovieAdventureRomance

A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

Gaulist (uncredited)

The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend · 1945

The Lost Weekend

Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

Waiter at Harry & Joe's Bar (uncredited)

Mr. Skeffington

Mr. Skeffington · 1944

Mr. Skeffington

MovieDramaRomance

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Louie (uncredited)

Framed

MovieCrimeDrama

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.

(uncredited)

The Flying Deuces

The Flying Deuces · 1939

The Flying Deuces

Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. When they’re arrested for soon trying to desert the Legion—they escape a firing squad by stealing an aircraft.

Corporal

Spy Smasher

Spy Smasher · 1942

Prior to the United States' involvement in World War II, the masked vigilante Spy Smasher fights Nazi agents operating within the US, led by the treacherous sabotage leader codenamed The Mask.

Hauser

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns · 1940

The Invisible Man Returns

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Minor Role (uncredited)

Secret Beyond the Door

Secret Beyond the Door · 1947

Secret Beyond the Door

MovieMysteryThriller

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

Levender Falls Husband (uncredited)

Reunion in France

Reunion in France · 1942

Reunion in France

MovieDramaRomance

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.

Officer (uncredited)

The Tiger Woman

The Tiger Woman · 1944

The Tiger Woman

MovieThrillerAdventure

Greedy oil speculators, led by Morgan, are trying to force Tiger Woman and her band of warriors from their jungle home. Allen Saunders of Inter-Ocean Oil wants to develop the oil, too, but fights with Tiger Woman to stop the bad guys.

Tom Dagget

The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry · 1950

The Damned Don't Cry

MovieCrimeDrama

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

Eddie Hart - Syndicate Boss (uncredited)

Commandos Strike at Dawn

Commandos Strike at Dawn · 1942

Commandos Strike at Dawn

A gentle widower with a small daughter finds his peaceful small rural village suddenly invaded by Nazis and, enraged in short order by their atrocities, becomes the leader of an aggressive underground movement.

German Soldier Taking Blankets (uncredited)

Treasure of the Golden Condor

Treasure of the Golden Condor · 1953

Treasure of the Golden Condor

A nobleman searches for a hidden treasure in Guatemala.

Ruffian (uncredited)

Pursued

Pursued · 1947

MovieWesternDrama

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

General (uncredited)

The Affairs of Susan

The Affairs of Susan · 1945

The Affairs of Susan

MovieComedyDrama

Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.

Colonel (uncredited)

Shockproof

Shockproof · 1949

MovieRomanceCrime

Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.

Foreman (Uncredited)

Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines

Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines · 1943

Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines

MovieDocumentaryWar

A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines.

A.T. Atkinson

The Fighting Seabees

The Fighting Seabees · 1944

The Fighting Seabees

MovieDramaAction

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

Lt. Cmdr. Hunter (uncredited)

Red Mountain

Red Mountain · 1951

Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold prospecting couple into trouble when the husband is accused of a murder he committed.

Cavalry Major

Till We Meet Again

Till We Meet Again · 1944

Till We Meet Again

An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in him and is willing to help him escape to England, but the pilot must continue his mission undercover by posing as the husband of a different woman.

Man with Silver

Walk a Crooked Mile

Walk a Crooked Mile · 1948

Walk a Crooked Mile

MovieCrimeDrama

A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?

For God and Country

For God and Country · 1943

For God and Country

The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father Michael O'Keefe, Arnold Miller, and Tom Manning.

Chaplain

The Crooked Way

The Crooked Way · 1949

The Crooked Way

MovieCrimeDrama

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.

Doctor Kemble / Off-Screen Narrator

Phantoms, Inc.

Phantoms, Inc. · 1945

MovieDramaCrime

This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance that her son is all right. When she can no longer pay, events take a tragic turn.

Inspector Becker