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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 ...
Big, beaming Jim Westerfield was the perfect screen incarnation of the slightly comic, frequently nonplussed New York cop. One can still see him taking off the peaked cap and scratching the balding head. There was a lot of this Tennessee-born actor at 6ft 1in and 200 lbs-plus, and much of the big face seemed to be teeth and eyebrows.
James Westerfield. Highest Rated: 100% Decision at Sundown (1957) Lowest Rated: 33% Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) Birthday: Mar 22, 1913. Birthplace: Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Golden Age ...
Sep 23, 1971 · Mr. Westerfield won the New York Drama Critics awards in 1948 and 1949 as best supporting actor in the Broadway plays “The Madwoman of Chaillot” and “Detective Story.”. His films included ...
Proud Rebel, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) The Dog's Not For Sale Breeder Bates (James Westerfield) appears as Chandler and his mute son (Alan Ladd and son David), with their awesome dog, wrangle the sheep the Burleighs (Thomas Pittman, Dean Jagger, Dean Stanton) stampeded onto their employer’s (Olivia de Havilland) crops, in The Proud Rebel, 1958.
Disney fans will remember Westerfield as the flustered small-town police officer (variously named Hanson and Morrison) in such fanciful farces as The Shaggy Dog (1959), The Absent Minded Professor (1960) and Son of Flubber (1963). James Westerfield was married to actress Fay Tracy.
Westerfield would go on to perform in 55 films over a career that spanned 35 years, appearing opposite some of Hollywood's brightest stars. In the Oscar-winning drama "On the Waterfront," he shared screen time with onscreen heavyweight Marlon Brando, and later sparred with John Wayne's Oscar-winning Rooster Cogburn in the 1969 Western adventure ...
