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Dan White
Falmouth, Florida, USA
Dan White (March 25, 1908 - July 7, 1980) was born to George & Orpha White about one mile from the Suwannee River in Falmouth, Florida. Falmouth was a small sleepy town then, as i…
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Dan White (March 25, 1908 - July 7, 1980) was born to George & Orpha White about one mile from the Suwannee River in Falmouth, Florida. Falmouth was a small sleepy town then, as it is still today. He was one of 12 siblings who were moved to Lakeland sometime around WW I. Lakeland is where Dan was introduced into show business in 1922 at the age of 14. He ran away from home when the show moved on and traveled thousands of miles throughout the South in tent, minstrel, vaudeville and theater shows. Dan performed on stage with his brother Willard for nine years with a stock company in Tampa's old Rialto Theater. Frances Langford worked with him during this time and it was Dan who told her to go to Hollywood. During this period he met Matilda "Tilda" Mae Spivey on the stage, and married her on February 25, 1933. Tilda had a two-year-old child from a previous marriage by the name of Arthur "Art" Grant Gifford. Times were tough, so Dan had to get out of show business for a while to make some real money. In 1934 he found work with the Conservation Corps in Homestead, Florida, but show business was always in his heart. Dan knew he had what it took to "make it" in Hollywood, so he decided to make the move to California in 1935. They packed all their possessions into their Ford and started the long, arduous trek across the country. This was during the Great Depression, and money was very tight. They had to stop frequently in various cities across the country to make extra money to continue their journey. Dan was a very good auto mechanic and never had a problem finding this type of work wherever he went. This skill paid off once during the filming of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). During the "mob" scene, one of the cars they were to drive away in would not start. Dan opened the hood, stepped onto the front bumper, and had the car running in no time flat.
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1975
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle
Movie Caldas
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1975
Smoke In The Wind
Movie Col. Joab Cullen (as Daniel White)
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1971
They Call It Murder
Movie Judge Farraday
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1970
The Cheyenne Social Club
Movie Barfly Getting Up from Table (uncredited)
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1967
The High Chaparral
TV show Sheriff Prentiss
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1967
Red Tomahawk
Movie 1st prospector, Ned Crone
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1966
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Movie Pete Ketchum
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1965
Apache Uprising
Movie Townsman
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1965
Green Acres
TV show
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1965
The Bounty Killer
Movie Marshal Davis (as Daniel M. White)
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1964
Flipper
TV show
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1963
Petticoat Junction
TV show 1st Juror
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1962
To Kill a Mockingbird
Movie Mob Leader (uncredited)
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1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV show
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1962
The Virginian
TV show Fox
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1962
Lonely are the Brave
Movie Convict (uncredited)
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1960
Ma Barker's Killer Brood
Movie Sheriff #2
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1959
The Rebel
TV show Corby
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1959
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Movie Porky Reed
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1959
This Earth Is Mine
Movie Judge Gruber
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1959
Gunmen from Laredo
Movie
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1959
Rawhide
TV show Sheriff of Elkville
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1958
Frontier Gun
Movie Sam Kilgore
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1958
Bat Masterson
TV show Ben Taylor
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1958
The Rifleman
TV show
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1958
The Texan
TV show
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1958
The Proud Rebel
Movie Court Clerk (uncredited)
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1958
The Sheepman
Movie Rancher (uncredited)
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1958
Touch of Evil
Movie Customs Officer (uncredited)
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1958
Sea Hunt
TV show
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1957
Gunfire at Indian Gap
Movie Fred Moran
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1957
Escape from Red Rock
Movie Al Farris (as Daniel White)
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1957
Maverick
TV show
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1957
Sugarfoot
TV show Kennedy
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1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV show
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1957
The Lonely Man
Movie
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1956
West Point
TV show
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1956
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV show Settler
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1956
The First Traveling Saleslady
Movie Sheriff
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1956
Great Day in the Morning
Movie Rogers (uncredited)
