
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James A. Westerfield (22 March 1913 – 20 September 1971) was an American actor of stage, film, and television. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, to candy-maker Brasher Omier Westerfield and his wife Dora Elizabeth Bailey, he was raised in Detroit, Michigan. (A news story in the June 12, 1949, issue of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle calls the information in the preceding sentence into question. It describes Westerfield as "the son of a famous producer-director" and says that he was "a youngster in Denver, Col.") He became interested in theatre as a young man and in the 1930s joined Gilmor Brown's famed Pasadena Community Playhouse, appearing in dozens of plays. He played in numerous films following his debut in 1940, then went to New York City and appeared on Broadway, winning two New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for his supporting roles in The Madwoman of Chaillot and Detective Story. He then returned to Hollywood and made more than 40 more films. Westerfield maintained an interest in the theatre. He directed more than 50 musicals in a summer-musical tent he owned in Danbury, Connecticut, and was the original stage director and producer for the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. He directed three seasons of "Theatre Under the Stars" in Vancouver, British Columbia, and appeared in musical roles with the Detroit Civic Light Opera, the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, and the San Francisco Civic Light Opera. On film, Westerfield had roles in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), On The Waterfront (1954), Lucy Gallant (1955), the 1957 Budd Boetticher-directed Western Decision at Sundown starring Randolph Scott, Cowboy (1958), a repeating role in The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) and its sequel Son of Flubber (1963), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Man's Favorite Sport (1964), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Hang 'Em High (1968) and True Grit (1969). Westerfield had many roles on television, including seven episodes as John Murrel from 1963 to 1964 on ABC's The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, starring child actor Kurt Russell in the title role. He made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of Sheriff Bert Elmore in the 1957 episode, "The Case of the Angry Mourner." He also appeared in an episode of The Lone Ranger in 1954 entitled "Texas Draw." Westerfield's other appearances were on such series as The Rifleman, The Californians, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, The Alaskans, The Rebel, Straightaway, Going My Way, The Asphalt Jungle, Hazel, The Andy Griffith Show, Daniel Boone, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Gunsmoke. He played the circus leader, Dr. Marvello, in an episode of Lost in Space "Space Circus" (1966). Westerfield as a young man was a roommate of fellow Pasadena Playhouse actor George Reeves. The two remained close friends until Reeves's death in 1959. Westerfield was married to Alice G. Fay (an actress under the name Fay Tracey), who, along with his mother, survived him. Westerfield died from a heart attack in Woodlands Hills, California, at the age of fifty-eight.

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波止場

奥さまは魔女

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Perry Mason

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The Wild Wild West

Birdman of Alcatraz

Judd for the Defense

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The Pride of the Yankees

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Green Acres

勇気ある追跡

Wild River

Rawhide

Lost in Space

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The Rifleman

エルダー兄弟

Man's Favorite Sport?

Lucy Gallant

Inner Sanctum

Daniel Boone

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Maverick

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Wanted: Dead or Alive

Mannix

Gunsmoke

The Howards of Virginia

Thriller

The Absent-Minded Professor

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

Scalplock

My Three Sons

Side Street

Homicidal

The Scarlet Coat

The Violent Men

Trackdown

General Electric Theater

The Hangman

Decision at Sundown

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The Tall Man

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Shaggy Dog

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The Plunderers

The Whistle at Eaton Falls

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

The Big Valley

Lassie

That Funny Feeling

Man with the Gun

Bat Masterson

The Proud Rebel

Son of Flubber

About Face

Law of the Plainsman

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Undercurrent

Three Brave Men

The Love God?

Highway West

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Going My Way

The Dakotas

Johnny Ringo

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The Cobweb

The Gunfight at Dodge City

Chief Crazy Horse

Smith!

Bikini Beach

The Alaskans

The Texan

Tightrope

Mayberry R.F.D.

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The 20th Century Fox Hour

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

The Outcasts

Away All Boats

Around the World

Studio One

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

The Walter Winchell File

The Asphalt Jungle

The Human Jungle

Three Hours to Kill

The Rebel

A Man Called Gannon

Jungle Heat

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant

Arde Baby, Arde

The Further Adventures of Gallegher

Now You See It, Now You Don't

The Helen Morgan Story

Set This Town on Fire

Old Man

Bartleby

The Great Adventure

Straightaway