
Ernest Whitman
Actor · 1893 – 1954 · 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.
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Movie7.9DramaWarThe spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Gone with the Wind
1939 · 4.5K votes
Movie7.6DramaLongtime 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.
The Lost Weekend
1945 · 684 votes
Movie6.6WesternAfter railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
Jesse James
1939 · 115 votes
Movie6.4WesternFarmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
The Return of Frank James
1940 · 146 votes
Movie5.8WesternAs a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Santa Fe Trail
1940 · 66 votes
Movie6.9DramaHistoryAfter healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936 · 62 votes
Movie6.7WarCrimeWith no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
They Gave Him a Gun
1937 · 6 votes
Movie6.5MusicFantasyWhen compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.
Cabin in the Sky
1943 · 51 votes
Movie7.0CrimeDramaA hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Castle on the Hudson
1940 · 14 votes
Movie6.6ComedyDramaWith the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
The Sun Shines Bright
1953 · 53 votes
Movie6.3DramaFantasyGod, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
The Green Pastures
1936 · 16 votes
Movie6.8ComedyDramaThe relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Stormy Weather
1943 · 52 votes
Movie5.0ComedyWesternRadio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940 · 2 votes
Movie6.4AdventureComedyStranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
Road to Zanzibar
1941 · 36 votes
Movie4.7ActionAdventureAn expedition into the deep jungle discovers a native tribe led by a tall Caucasian blonde woman.
Blonde Savage
1947 · 10 votes
Movie6.0CrimeA jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
The Get-Away
1941 · 8 votes
Movie5.9DramaActionThe life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
Dillinger
1945 · 36 votes
Movie5.4CrimeDramaA Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
Daughter of Shanghai
1937 · 16 votes
Movie7.6TV MovieDramaA biopic of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt, Sr., documenting the driver's career from his earliest days onward and also looking at the family he built along the way. Earnhardt's death in 2001 rocked the sport, but his seven championships and 76 wins made an impact on NASCAR forever.
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story
2004 · 20 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMagazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940 · 13 votes
Movie7.5ComedyLiving with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
My Brother Talks to Horses
1947 · 2 votes
Movie7.7FamilyDramaFamily drama about a young farm girl, suddenly orphaned, who must give up her beloved dog when she's sent to live with her aunt in Boston.
Banjo
1947 · 3 votes
Movie5.4CrimeMysteryA newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
Tell No Tales
1939 · 7 votes
Movie6.5DramaMysteryA woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Maryland
1940 · 3 votes
Series1
- TV7.3Comedy
The Beulah Show
1950 · 3 votes