Dan White
Acting
Born 1908-03-25
Died 1980-07-07
Falmouth, Florida, USA
139 credits
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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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Filmography
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Acting
42 credits
Lassie
The Virginian
Petticoat Junction
Cheyenne
Rawhide
Gunsmoke
The High Chaparral
Bat Masterson
Gone with the Wind
Sugarfoot
The Rebel
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Cavalcade of America
Touch of Evil
Red River
The Grapes of Wrath
Distant Drums
Duel in the Sun
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Tall Men
The Country Girl
Lonely are the Brave
The Gunfighter
His Kind of Woman
The Cheyenne Social Club
Suddenly
Destry Rides Again
The Sheepman
The Invisible Man's Revenge
The Proud Rebel
Texas
General Electric Theater
Rawhide
Gun Town
Horizons West
Forbidden Trails
Great Day in the Morning
Silver River
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Red Mountain
Four Faces West
Other credits
18 credits
The Rifleman
Maverick
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Beverly Hillbillies
Green Acres
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Highway Patrol
Adventures of Superman
Telephone Time
Sea Hunt
The Texan
Flipper
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
The Adventures of Kit Carson
West Point
Hopalong Cassidy
I Married a Witch
The Lusty Men
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