James Westerfield

Acting · Born 1913-03-22 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Biography

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…

Filmography

• Birdman of Alcatraz as Jess Younger
• On the Waterfront as Big Mac
• The Sons of Katie Elder as Mr. Vennar
• True Grit as Judge Parker
• The Magnificent Ambersons as Policeman at Accident (uncredited)
• Hang 'em High as Prisoner
• Man with the Gun as Mr. Zender
• The Chase as Job the Butler
• Homicidal as Alfred S. Adrims
• The Human Jungle as Marty Harrison

TV

• The Time Tunnel as Sheriff
• The Andy Griffith Show as Uncle Ollie
• Perry Mason as Sheriff Elmore
• Bewitched
• The Twilight Zone as Anthony O'Toole
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Commissioner Cummings
• Perry Mason as Roger Quigley
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Pops Lafferty
• Trackdown
• Green Acres