Post by teleadm on Jul 17, 2020 17:20:51 GMT
This man, a popular historian of art at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, once won an Oscar, an Honorary Oscar for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Kidnappers aka The Little Kidnappers 1953.
His name was Jon Whitley, and sadly I only knew/though about him, when he passed away on May 16th this year 2020.
His personal favorite of the few movies he was in:
Moonfleet 1955, Working with Stewart Granger "was always a joy and he was helpful through every scene", and working with that old man with a monocle "was the nicest man in the world", lot's of patience doing scenes over and over. That man with a monocle was Fritz Lang, hardly a director anyone would call nice, but maybe he was that time...