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 new ... s 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 Broadway, winning two New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for his supporting roles in The Madwoman of Chaillot and Detective Story. He then returned to Hollywood and made more than 40 more films. Westerfield maintained an interest in the theatre. He directed more than 50 musicals in a summer-musical tent he owned in Danbury, Connecticut, and was the original stage director and producer for the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. He directed three seasons of "Theatre Under the Stars" in Vancouver, British Columbia, and appeared in musical roles with the Detroit Civic Light Opera, the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, and the San Francisco Civic Light Opera. On film, Westerfield had roles in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), On The Waterfront (1954), Lucy Gallant (1955), the 1957 Budd Boetticher-directed Western Decision at Sundown starring Randolph Scott, Cowboy (1958), a repeating role in The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) and its sequel Son of Flubber (1963), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Man's Favorite Sport (1964), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Hang 'Em High (1968) and True Grit (1969). Westerfield had many roles on television, including seven episodes as John Murrel from 1963 to 1964 on ABC's The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, starring child actor Kurt Russell in the title role. He made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of Sheriff Bert Elmore in the 1957 episode, "The Case of the Angry Mourner." He also appeared in an episode of The Lone Ranger in 1954 entitled "Texas Draw." Westerfield's other appearances were on such series as The Rifleman, The Californians, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, The Alaskans, The Rebel, Straightaway, Going My Way, The Asphalt Jungle, Hazel, The Andy Griffith Show, Daniel Boone, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Gunsmoke. He played the circus leader, Dr. Marvello, in an episode of Lost in Space "Space Circus" (1966). Westerfield as a young man was a roommate of fellow Pasadena Playhouse actor George Reeves. The two remained close friends until Reeves's death in 1959. Westerfield was married to Alice G. Fay (an actress under the name Fay Tracey), who, along with his mother, survived him. Westerfield died from a heart attack in Woodlands Hills, California, at the age of fifty-eight.
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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
as John Murrel
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 29, 1963
The Time Tunnel
as Sheriff
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 09, 1966
The Andy Griffith Show
as Uncle Ollie
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 03, 1960
The Great Adventure
as Attorney Thomas Green
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 27, 1963
Lost in Space
as Dr. Marvello
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1965
Gunsmoke
as Rance Bradley
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
Perry Mason
as Sheriff Elmore
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Studio One
as Captain James Reagan
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 07, 1948
General Electric Theater
as Bartender
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 01, 1953
The Twilight Zone
as Anthony O'Toole
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Commissioner Cummings
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1955
Rawhide
as Matt Lucas
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 09, 1959
Daniel Boone
as Hand
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1964
Thriller
as Al Matthews
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 1960
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as McAllister
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 01, 1957
The Big Valley
as Jeb Lassiter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1965
Profiles in Courage
as Sen. Samuel Pomeroy
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 08, 1964
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Dr. Langland
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 06, 1958
The Rebel
as Suee
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1959
Bat Masterson
as Shapley Howell
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 08, 1958
Law of the Plainsman
as Joshua Jones
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1959
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Bert Farrow
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1956
Johnny Ringo
as Aben Burke
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1959
Rawhide
as Mort Henry
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 09, 1959
Gunsmoke
as Harry Duggan
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
Gunsmoke
as Cleed
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
Gunsmoke
as Franks
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
General Electric Theater
as The General
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 01, 1953
The Lucy Show
as Weitzman
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1962
Mayberry R.F.D.
as Sheriff Matson
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1968
Daniel Boone
as Simon Girty
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1964
Perry Mason
as Roger Quigley
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Pops Lafferty
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1955
Studio One
as Bilgeboy / Jimmy Scaggs
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 07, 1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
as H.T. Carmichael
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 03, 1948
The Wild Wild West
as McAvity
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 17, 1965
Bonanza
as Arthur Blackwell
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 12, 1959
The Rifleman
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 30, 1958
Maverick
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 22, 1957
Trackdown
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1957
Green Acres
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1965
My Three Sons
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 29, 1960
The Beverly Hillbillies
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 26, 1962
Mannix
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 16, 1967
Bewitched
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 17, 1964
Lassie
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 12, 1954
The Tall Man
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1960
Straightaway
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 06, 1961
Going My Way
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 03, 1962
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 06, 1958
The Outcasts
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1968
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1955
Judd for the Defense
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 1967
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 07, 1956
The Philco Television Playhouse
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 03, 1948
The Alaskans
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1959
The Dakotas
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 07, 1963
The Texan
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 29, 1958
Inner Sanctum
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 09, 1954
Tightrope
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 1959
The Walter Winchell File
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1957
State Trooper
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 25, 1956
The Asphalt Jungle
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 02, 1961
Casey, Crime Photographer
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 19, 1951
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