Richard Whorf
| Richard Whorf | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 4, 1906 Winthrop, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
| Occupation | Film and television actor, director, and author |
Richard Whorf (June 4, 1906 – December 14, 1966) was an American actor, author, director, and designer.
Richard was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts to Harry and Sarah (née Lee) Whorf. Richard's older brother was linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf.[1] Whorf began his acting career on the Boston stage as a teenager then moved to Broadway at age 21. He had a role in a production of Taming of the Shrew at the Globe Theatre in New York City. He moved to Hollywood and became a contract player in films of the 1930s and 1940s, before becoming a director in 1944.
Whorf played a famous painter who had resorted to drinking in the 1960 episode "The Illustrator" of ABC's The Rifleman, starring Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford. He directed a number of television programs in the 1950s and 1960s, the best known being the CBS hit comedy The Beverly Hillbillies, starring Buddy Ebsen. He directed the short-lived 1959 syndicated adventure series, Border Patrol, and the 1964-1965 ABC sitcom, Mickey, starring Mickey Rooney. In the summer of 1960, he guest starred in one episode and directed other segments of the short-lived David McLean western series, Tate.
Whorf directed the unsuccessful 1961 stage comedy Julia, Jake and Uncle Joe.[2]
Whorf's hobby was painting - he sold his first painting at the age of fifteen for US$100. Many of his small town landscape paintings reflected his American worldview and seemed to be inspired by painters like Grant Wood and Norman Rockwell.
He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.[3]
Contents
Partial filmography
As director
- Blonde Fever (1944)
- The Hidden Eye (1945)
- The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945)
- Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
- It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)
- Love from a Stranger (1947)
- Luxury Liner (1948)
- Champagne for Caesar (1950)
- The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)
- Gunsmoke (1958)
As actor
- Blues in the Night (1941)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- Juke Girl (1942)
- Keeper of the Flame (1942)
- The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
- The Impostor (1944), aka Strange Confession
- Christmas Holiday (1944)
- Chain Lightning (1950)
As producer
- The Burning Hills (1956)
- Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)
- Bombers B-52 (1957)
References
- ↑ Carrol, John B. (1956) "Introduction" in "Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf". MIT Press. pp. 2-3
- ↑ Internet Broadway Database listing
- ↑ Richard Whorf at Find a Grave
External links
- Richard Whorf at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Richard Whorf at the Internet Movie Database
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- 1906 births
- 1966 deaths
- Male actors from Massachusetts
- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- American television directors
- Donaldson Award winners
- Tony Award winners
- Male actors from Los Angeles, California
- People from Winthrop, Massachusetts
- American costume designers
- Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
- 20th-century American male actors
