Jesse White (January 4, 1917 – January 9, 1997) was an American television, film, and stage character actor. He is best remembered for portraying the Maytag repairman in television commercials, a role he played from 1967 to 1988.
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Jesse White Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jesse White |
| Also Know | Cagey Calhoun, Jessie White, Jess White |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Buffalo, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1917-01-03 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 80 |
| Deathday | 1997-01-09 |
Jesse White Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Three Blondes In His Life | Ed Kelly | 1961-12-31 | Tough insurance investigator Mahoney goes to LA to look into the murder of a fellow investigator. It’s found that the murdered man knew three differen… |
| Dad… Can I Borrow the Car? | 1970-09-30 | A live-action short, using many avant-garde film techniques, that looks at American car culture in the late 1960s. The main section deals with the man… | |
| Tomboy and the Champ | Windy Skiles | 1961-04-01 | A young Texas cowgirl raises a prize-winning calf, whose presence helps her recover from polio…. |
| The Reluctant Astronaut | Donelli | 1967-09-05 | Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for th… |
| The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond | Leo ‘Butcher’ Bremer | 1960-02-03 | Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the… |
| Witness to Murder | Police Sgt. Eddie Vincent | 1954-04-15 | A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window…. |
| The Come On | J.J. McGonigle | 1956-04-16 | A con woman tries to swindle her partner-in-crime husband with the help of one of her former marks. But is she to be trusted?… |
| Callaway Went Thataway | Georgie Markham | 1951-11-15 | Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star is… |
| Katie Did It | Jim Dilloway | 1950-11-26 | Katherine Standish, who has been brought up in a strict manner in a prudish New England town, falls in love with a city slicker commercial artist, Pet… |
| The Big Night | Wegg | 1960-02-17 | Big money means big crime in this noir drama following the exploits of Frankie (Randy Sparks), a young man who stumbles on a stash of cash and finds h… |
| God Is My Partner | Louis ‘The Lump’ Lumpkin | 1957-07-01 | A retired surgeon starts giving away money to religious causes and his family tries to file suit, claiming that he’s incompetent…. |
| Togetherness | Henry | 1970-09-13 | Nina, a gorgeous blonde communist, attracts the attention of two wealthy bon vivants. Prince Solomon and Jack attempt to impress the young woman and w… |
| Francis Goes to the Races | Frank Damer | 1951-05-01 | In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter get a job working on a horse-breeder’s ranch. They … |
| It’s Only Money | Pete Flint | 1962-11-20 | Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a m… |
| Bedtime for Bonzo | Babcock | 1951-04-05 | College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in be… |
| Nashville Girl | C.Y. Ordell | 1976-03-01 | A Kentucky-born maiden realizes her dream of becoming a country music star. However, she discovers that her single-minded determination has caused her… |
| Pajama Party | J. Sinister Hulk | 1964-11-11 | A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl…. |
| The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini | J. Sinister Hulk | 1966-04-06 | A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go “up there” and have his youth restored…. |
| Johnny Trouble | Parsons | 1957-09-24 | An elderly woman becomes convinced that a trouble-making college student is her grandson she’s never met…. |
| The Yellow Canary | Ed Thornburg | 1963-05-15 | Andy is an arrogant pop singer about to be divorced by his wife who treats his staff badly. On the same night he starts a job at a theater in Los Ange… |
| Harvey | Marvin Wilson – orderly | 1950-12-04 | The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileg… |
| He Laughed Last | Max Lassiter | 1956-08-12 | A 1920s chorus girl inherits a slain gangster’s empire…. |
| The Girl in White | Alec | 1952-05-23 | The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they… |
| The Right Approach | Brian Freer | 1961-05-17 | An opportunistic young Hollywood singer, loyal only to himself, steps on everyone he meets in order to achieve success and fame…. |
| Death of a Salesman | Stanley | 1951-12-20 | Willy Loman is an aging salesman who was recently fired from his job. Dealing with feelings of failure, Willy begins to relive events from the past th… |
| The Cat from Outer Space | Earnest Ernie | 1978-06-09 | A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to c… |
| Million Dollar Mermaid | Doc Cronnol | 1952-12-04 | After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent…. |
| Harvey | Duane Wilson | 1972-03-20 | Elwood P. Dowd’s constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in her plan… |
| Designing Woman | Charlie Arneg | 1957-05-16 | A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the othe… |
| Hell’s Half Acre | Tubby Otis | 1954-06-01 | A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband…. |
| Bless the Beasts & Children | Sid Shecker | 1971-10-18 | Six children at a summer camp embark on a mission to save a buffalo herd from slaughter…. |
| Gunsmoke | Professor | 1953-05-04 | Kittridge is hired by the villans but turns to defend the rancher Saxon after learning the true situation. Kittrige wins Saxon’s ranch with a cut of t… |
| On the Double | Corporal Joseph Praeger | 1961-05-19 | American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and d… |
| The Spirit Is Willing | Fess Dorple | 1967-07-07 | When Ben and Kate Powell (Sid Caesar and Vera Miles) rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve (Barry Gordon) gets blamed for the d… |
| The Bad Seed | Emory Wages | 1956-09-12 | Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, dote on their daughter, Rhoda — as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove. But self-… |
| Brothers O’Toole | Mayor | 1973-05-16 | The O’Toole Brothers are Eastern con men, exceptionally good at talking their way out of tight situations. When they ride into Molybdenum, Colorado, n… |
| Forever Female | Willie | 1953-11-28 | An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore…. |
| Champ for a Day | Willie Foltis | 1953-08-15 | An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favor… |
| Not as a Stranger | Ben Cosgrove | 1955-07-01 | Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out … |
| A Fever in the Blood | Sgt. Michael Beers | 1961-01-28 | A judge, a district attorney and a U. S. senator–each hoping to be elected the next governor–attempt to manipulate a murder trial to advance their o… |
| Marjorie Morningstar | Lou Michaelson | 1958-04-24 | While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at… |
| Back from Eternity | Pete Boswick | 1956-09-07 | A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then disco… |
| A House Is Not a Home | Rafferty | 1964-08-12 | Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York’s most successful bordello madams of the 1920s…. |
| Matinee | Mr. Spector | 1993-01-29 | A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalises on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extr… |
| The Girl Rush | Ludwig – Pit Boss | 1955-09-16 | When her compulsive-gambler father dies, leaving her with an inheritance that amounts to zip, single gal Kim Halliday jumps at a caller’s claim that s… |
| Return to Campus | Sports announcer | 1975-10-01 | A 55-year-old former high school football player finally gets to fulfill his life-long dream and play in the big game in this autobiographical fantasy… |
| Looking for Love | Tiger Shay | 1964-08-05 | An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack…. |
| Sail A Crooked Ship | McDonald | 1961-12-01 | A bungling burglar, determined to go down in the annals of crime as a genius, steals a ship in New York in order to rob a bank in Boston…. |
| Guilty Bystander | Masher | 1950-04-20 | A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up…. |
| Of Thee I Sing | Matthew Fulton | 1972-10-24 | CBS’ updated version of the classic Gershwin musical, cast largely with stars who were all appearing in then-current CBS television series…. |
| Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven | Customer (uncredited) | 1948-07-16 | Eddie Tayloe’s grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and … |
| Las Vegas Lady | Big Jake | 1975-06-01 | In Las Vegas, Lucky and two of her girlfriends, Carol and Lisa, plan to steal half a million dollars from the sadistic manager of the Circus Circus Ca… |
| It’s Showtime | Self (archive footage) | 1976-03-31 | A collection of film clips profiling animal actors…. |
| It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Air Traffic Controller | 1963-11-07 | A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is t… |
| Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood | Rudy’s Agent | 1976-07-26 | A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s…. |
| Kiss of Death | Taxi Driver (uncredited) | 1947-08-27 | An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge…. |
| Stage Door Canteen | Jesse White (uncredited) | 1943-06-24 | A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreati… |
| Night Of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 | A celebrity benefit for The Actors’ Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy…. |
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