Gayne Whitman

Whitman's theatrical debut came when he carried a spear behind an actor portraying King Richard III in a production in Indianapolis. He acted around the midwestern United States as a member of stock theater companies before going to Hollywood in 1913, shifting his focus to films. Allen Vosburgh, he was the leading man in the film Princess of the Dark (1917). Soon after that, he changed his screen name to Alfred Whitman because "1917 was not a good time to have a German sounding name." Beginning in 1921, Whitman acted at the Morosco Theater in Los Angeles. He returned to films in 1925 when he received a contract with Warner Bros. On radio, Whitman played the title role in Chandu the Magician, was the narrator on Lassie and Strange as It Seems, and was an announcer on Paducah Plantation and other programs.

• Name — Gayne Whitman • Birth Name — Alfred D. Vosburgh • Born — 19 March 1890 • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois • Died — 31 August 1958 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California • Occupation — Actor • Other Names — Alfred Whitman • Years Active — 1904-1957 • Spouse — Estelle Margaret Allen (1893-1970)

Whitman was married to Estelle Taylor, an actress with a stock theater company in St. Louis. (Another source gives her name as Estelle Allen.) They had two daughters. On August 31, 1958, Whitman died of a heart attack in Los Angeles at age 68.

• A Natural Man (1915, Short) - Karl Holden • The Substitute Minister (1915, Short) - John Drummond • The Bluffers (1915, Short) - Tom Murdock • The Silver Lining (1915, Short) - Richard Grant • The Solution to the Mystery (1915, Short) - Franklyn Davis • The Red Circle (1915, Serial) • Matching Dreams (1916, Short) - Hugh Clayton • Time and Tide (1916, Short) - Ned Lang • A Sanitarium Scramble (1916, Short) - Frank Fellows • Tangled Skeins (1916, Short) - Randall Wellington • Her Father's Son (1916) - Lt. Richard Harkness • The Road to Love (1916) - Karan • The Serpent's Tooth (1917) • Princess of the Dark (1917) • Money Madness (1917) • The Divorcee (1917) • Sunlight's Last Raid (1917) • The Flaming Omen (1917) • When Men Are Tempted (1917) • Baree, Son of Kazan (1918) • The Sea Flower (1918) • Desert Law (1918) • The End of the Game (1919) • His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925) • The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted (1925) • Three Weeks in Paris {1925} • A Woman of the Sea (1926) • Oh! What a Nurse! (1926) • Hell-Bent for Heaven (1926) • Sunshine of Paradise Alley (1926) • The Love Toy (1926) • The Night Cry (1926) • Exclusive Rights (1926) • A Woman's Heart (1926) • The Woman on Trial (1927) • Wolves of the Air (1927) • Stolen Pleasures (1927) • Backstage (1927) • In the First Degree (1927) • Sailors' Wives (1928) • Lucky Boy (1929) • Reno (1930) • Finger Prints (1931) • Heroes of the Flames (1931) • Igloo (1932) • The Sea (1933) • Art Trouble (1934) short film • Born to Die (1934) narrator educational short • Flight Command (1940) • The Rookie Bear (1941) • Barney Bear's Victory Garden (1942) • War Dogs (1943) • The Masked Marvel (1943) • The Sickle or the Cross (1949)