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Gayne Whitman (born Alfred D. Vosburgh; March 19, 1890 – August 31, 1958) was an American radio and film actor. He appeared in 213 films between 1904 and 1957. In some early films he was credited under his birth name. He was born in Chicago, Illinois.
As Alfred Vosburgh, he was the leading man in the film Princess of the Dark (1917). Soon after that, he changed his screen name to Alfred Whitman because “1917 was not a good time to have a German sounding name.”
Beginning in 1921, Whitman acted at the Morosco Theater in Los Angeles. He returned to films in 1925 when he received a contract with Warner Bros.
On radio, Whitman played the title role in Chandu the Magician, was the narrator on Lassie and Strange as It Seems, and was an announcer on Paducah Plantation and other programs.
Gayne Whitman Biography / Wiki
| Name | Gayne Whitman |
| Also Know | Alfred D. Vosburgh, Alfred Vosburgh, Alfred Vosburg, Al Vosburgh, Fred Vosburgh, Mr. Vosburg, Albert Vosburgh, Alfred Whitman, Al Whitman |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1890-03-19 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 68 |
| Deathday | 1958-08-31 |
Gayne Whitman Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Popular Science J8-1 | Narrator | 1938-09-02 | A variety of scientific subjects, including the laboratory of a plastic surgeon in London, and his method for applying permanent makeup; a new school… |
| City of Wax | Narrator | 1934-02-09 | City of Wax is a 1934 American short documentary film produced by Horace and Stacy Woodard about the life of a bee. It won the Oscar at the 7th Academ… |
| Sea Spiders | Narrator (voice) | 1932-05-05 | A look at the everyday life of Tahitian natives…. |
| Popular Science J-7-1 | Narrator | 1937-01-01 | Raising angora rabbits for wool; new marine navigation and safety technology; kitchen gadgets; developing new rose varieties…. |
| Moon Rockets | Narrator | 1947-06-06 | This short is one of Paramount’s “Popular Science” series (number L6-5, or the fifth one of the 1946-47 production season) and begins by showing moon … |
| The Rookie Bear | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1941-11-01 | In a humorous report, “Strife” magazine follows a bear who gets drafted and goes through the rigors of Army basic training…. |
| Exclusive Rights | 1926-12-15 | … | |
| Tomorrow’s Airplane Today: The Story of the Stratocruiser | Narrator (voice) | 1946-07-25 | Promotional film for Boeing’s new commercial transport, the 4-engine double-decker Model 377 Stratocruiser…. |
| Popular Science J6-2 | 1936-01-01 | Considers marvels of modern science: Fingerprints, cosmetics, radio, microbiological research, airplanes…. | |
| Igloo | Narrator (voice) | 1932-07-14 | Documentary detailing the hardships of life among Alaskan Natives…. |
| Fleischer Studios Behind The Scenes | Narrator | 1938-12-01 | This fascinating and informative 1938 film, part of Paramount’s Popular Science series, offers a tour through Fleischer Studios’ newly-built Miami s… |
| A Gentleman’s Agreement | Allen Spargo | 1918-07-29 | Allen Spargo, a mining engineer who is betrothed to Theresa Kane, goes West to make his fortune and is seriously injured in an accident. Kate Leonard,… |
| Land of Liberty | Narrator | 1939-06-15 | This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939…. |
| The Sea Flower | Truxton Darnley | 1918-12-23 | A secret service agent disguises himself as a sailor…. |
| Her Father’s Son | Lt. Richard Harkness | 1916-10-12 | A Union officer exposes the several deceptions his sweetheart has been engaging in. These include , spying for the Confederacy, and posing as a boy in… |
| Baree, Son of Kazan | Jim Carvel (as Alfred Whitman) | 1918-05-27 | From James Oliver Curwood’s novel about a wolfdog…. |
| The Wild Strain | Harold Burton | 1918-01-14 | Although the prominent Hollywood family prides itself on its illustrious family tree, young Winifred Hollywood exhibits a fondness for wild adventures… |
| Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers | Ross Cavanaugh | 1918-02-25 | Ed Wetherford becomes an outlaw and, to escape imprisonment, abandons his wife Eliza and daughter Virginia. After attending college in the East, Virgi… |
| The Home Trail | Tom Evans | 1918-03-25 | Tom Evans, the fearless range boss of the Double X Ranch, falls in love with a romantic schoolteacher from the East named Clara. They marry and for a … |
| The Girl from Beyond | Geoffrey Hampden / George Hammond | 1918-04-15 | Geoffrey Hampden, a Texas oil millionaire living in New York, seeks revenge against Philip Armond, the man who caused his sister to commit suicide…. |
| The Last Wilderness | Narrator | 1935-05-14 | Archery expert Howard Hill and a cameraman go to Wyoming to film this wild-animal three-reel short. Besides the scenery, the scenes include a buffalo … |
| The End of the Game | Frank Miller | 1919-03-24 | A love story that takes place at the time of the gold rush. Prospector Allister Burke is in love with Mary, but he believe the slanderous lies that ar… |
| Princess of the Dark | Jack Rockwell (as Alfred Vosburgh) | 1917-02-18 | James Herron, a consumptive, has built a shack in the hope that the mountain air may prolong his life. With him dwells his daughter, Fay, whom he idol… |
| The Pleasure Buyers | Genne Cassenas | 1925-12-19 | Joan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all for good reasons of their own, murdered a high-so… |
| Music in the Sky | Narrator | 1945-12-10 | A film recreating a broadcast of the Westinghouse Radio Program starring John Charles Thomas and John Nesbitt. Program narrator was Gayne Whitman and … |
| The Best Man | Jefferson Hathaway (as Alfred Whitman) | 1919-05-04 | The Library of Congress lists this as a ‘lost’ film, however a copy exists in the UK. Gordon, disguised as Hayne, meets with the criminals and man… |
| Life’s Harmony | Gordon Howard | 1916-02-22 | Josiah Pringle, a benevolent old musician, who ekes out his livelihood by giving music lessons, after playing the organ for twenty years in the church… |
| Hell-Bent for Heaven | 1926-05-01 | Sid Hunt and Jude Lowery are Carolina sweethearts but hired-hand Rufe Pryer also has his eyes on her. Rufe lies to Andy, Jude’s brother, and a family-… | |
| Faith of Jairus | Narrator | 1947-07-10 | This is the Loyola Films version of Cathedral Films original version of “The Story of Jairus’ Daughter.”… |
| His Jazz Bride | 1926-01-15 | Young lawyer Dick Gregory, is hard pressed to pay the bills of his wife, Gloria, and equally hard pressed to keep up with the frantic pace of her life… | |
| The Night Cry | Miguel Hernández | 1926-02-27 | A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is accused of having turned killer…. |
| Little Hiawatha | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1937-05-15 | The “fearless warrior” of the poem is a very small child whose pants keep falling down. He tries to shoot a grasshopper with his arrow, but the grassh… |
| Lucky Boy | 1929-02-02 | A young Jewish man works in his father’s jewelry business, but he doesn’t like it at all–he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his f… | |
| The Love Toy | Prime Minister | 1926-02-13 | The Love Toy is a lost 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Lowell Sherman, Jane Winton, and Willard Louis. The fi… |
| If Women Only Knew | Professor Storey | 1921-05-24 | Remotely derived from Balzac, the plot centers on Maurice Travers, who, through the self-sacrificing efforts of his mother, is able to attend college,… |
| The Road to Love | Karan (as Alfred Vosburgh) | 1916-12-07 | Hafsa, a beautiful Arab girl (Lenore Ulrich), wants the right to choose her own mate, instead of the husband picked out by her father, Malik (Herschel… |
| Sunshine of Paradise Alley | Glen Wathershoon | 1926-12-15 | A wealthy banker wants to tear down a tenement slum to build a factory, but a charming girl who lives there begins to persuade him otherwise…. |
| The Adventurer | The Tornado | 1928-07-14 | American mining engineer Jim McClellan is in love with Dolores de Silva, daughter of the deposed president of a Latin American country. He becomes inv… |
| The Sign of the Snake | Secondary Role | 1913-11-28 | Colonel Crewe, in charge of a fort near the Mexican border, receives word that some Chinese are about to be smuggled across the line. He details Lieut… |
| Backstage | Frank Carroll | 1927-04-01 | Julia, Myrtle, Fanny, and Jane – all chorus girls, after weeks of rehearsing for a show, find themselves stranded when the manager is broke. Evicted f… |
| Phantom Killer | District Attorney John W. Rogers | 1942-10-02 | Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there… |
| Money Madness | Tom Williams (as Alfred Vosburgh) | 1917-05-28 | When a bank is on the verge of collapse, its president, George Fuller, uses his own fortune to cover its losses. Unknown to Fuller, however, Monroe Si… |
| Big Jim McLain | Dr. Gelster | 1952-08-30 | House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though… |
| Hollywood on Parade No. A-8 | 1933-03-10 | In the Hollywood Hall of Fame – a wax museum – the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the … | |
| Art Trouble | Richard Burton | 1934-06-23 | Harry Gribbon and Shemp Howard enter the world of fine art in Paris…. |
| The Serpent’s Tooth | Sid Lennox | 1917-05-28 | Four lifelong friends share one very special summer. They develop an enduring bond despite their distinctly different emerging personalities…. |
| The Woman on Trial | Julie’s Lawyer | 1927-10-28 | A story of a woman who committed a murder…. |
| Too Many Crooks | Marshall Stone | 1927-04-02 | Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Dav… |
| My Gal Loves Music | Announcer | 1944-12-01 | A sister act finds itself stranded and broke, and teams up with a medicine man who is promoting a child talent contest…. |
| Sailors’ Wives | Warren Graves | 1928-01-22 | Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Carol Trent tearfully breaks off her engagement with Don Manning, hoping to spare him the stigma of a… |
| His Majesty, Bunker Bean | Bert Hollins | 1925-09-14 | His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty, Bun… |
| One Girl’s Confession | District Attorney | 1953-04-06 | Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the money, then confesses to the crime, secure i… |
| Strange Fascination | Mr. Lowell | 1952-09-01 | A homely middle-aged man falls hard for a much younger woman leading to disaster…. |
| Sakima and the Masked Marvel | Voice of the Masked Man | 1966-01-01 | No overview found…. |
| Adventures of Red Ryder | Harrison | 1940-06-28 | Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy…. |
| The Jazz Singer | Mr. Eskow | 1953-02-14 | As Jerry Golding scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who’d hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowf… |
| The 9th Guest | Voice of the Host (Uncredited) | 1934-01-31 | Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host’s v… |
| Parachute Battalion | Staff Officer | 1941-09-12 | Director Leslie Goodwins’ 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O’Br… |
| The Sickle or the Cross | Tim Matthews | 1949-07-01 | Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Re… |
| Bordertown Trail | Officer | 1944-08-11 | The election to determine if Texas will become a state is near and men opposed are running contraband across the border. Sunset and Frog are Border Pa… |
| The Old Homestead | Radio Station Executive (uncredited) | 1935-10-05 | A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance…. |
| In Old Missouri | Businessman | 1940-04-17 | The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son a… |
| The Lady Eve | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1941-02-25 | It’s no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles’ fortune. Matters complicate when Jean start… |
| Spendthrift | Radio Announcer | 1936-07-22 | A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all t… |
| Rails Into Laramie | 1954-04-14 | A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track…. | |
| The Bands Plays On | Doctor Wilson | 1934-12-21 | A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars…. |
| Flight Command | Doctor | 1940-12-27 | A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn’t make a great first impression … |
| Lucky Partners | Announcer (voice) | 1940-08-02 | Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results…. |
| Blondie Brings Up Baby | Radio Police Officer (uncredited) | 1939-11-08 | Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically co… |
| The Flying Irishman | New York City Announcer | 1939-04-07 | This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas ‘Wrong Way’ Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight… |
| Ziegfeld Girl | Ted (Uncredited) | 1941-04-25 | Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl’s life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on … |
| Trouble Along the Way | Lawyer Grummet | 1953-04-04 | Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at t… |
| Smashing the Rackets | News Broadcaster | 1938-08-08 | Jim ‘Socker’ Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney’s office. Meanwhile… |
| I Take This Woman | Dr. Phelps (uncredited) | 1940-02-02 | On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker’s suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic i… |
| Robin Hood of El Dorado | 1936-03-17 | In the 1840’s Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and… | |
| Woman Wanted | Attorney (uncredited) | 1935-08-02 | Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Bax… |
| Hitchhike to Happiness | 1945-07-16 | In this drama, an aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most… | |
| Page Miss Glory | Radio Show Announcer (uncredited) | 1935-09-07 | A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer…. |
| New Moon | First Mate | 1940-06-28 | A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana…. |
| The Killer That Stalked New York | Doctor (uncredited) | 1950-10-06 | In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the polic… |
| Reunion in France | Maitre d’hotel (uncredited) | 1942-12-25 | 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 hi… |
| James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) | 1988-11-22 | Documentary about James Stewart’s long career as an actor and positive personal life…. |
Gayne Whitman Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Popular Science J-7-1 | Director | 1937-01-01 | Raising angora rabbits for wool; new marine navigation and safety technology; kitchen gadgets; developing new rose varieties…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Fleischer Studios Behind The Scenes | Writer | 1938-12-01 | This fascinating and informative 1938 film, part of Paramount’s Popular Science series, offers a tour through Fleischer Studios’ newly-built Miami s… |
| The Last Wilderness | Writer | 1935-05-14 | Archery expert Howard Hill and a cameraman go to Wyoming to film this wild-animal three-reel short. Besides the scenery, the scenes include a buffalo … |
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