Dan White
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.
137 acting credits
Acting · 137
Lassie
1954
The Rifleman
1958
Maverick
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Virginian
1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Petticoat Junction
1963
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
Rawhide
1959
Green Acres
1965
Gunsmoke
1955
Bat Masterson
1958
The High Chaparral
1967
Sea Hunt
1958
Sugarfoot
1957
The Texan
1958
Highway Patrol
1955
Adventures of Superman
1952
The Rebel
1959
Gone with the Wind
1939
Cavalcade of America
1952
Telephone Time
1956
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
Flipper
1964
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
The Adventures of Kit Carson
1951
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
West Point
1956
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962
General Electric Theater
1953
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949
Touch of Evil
1958
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Duel in the Sun
1946
Red River
1948
The Tall Men
1955
Distant Drums
1951
Lonely are the Brave
1962
Suddenly
1954
The Gunfighter
1950
Silver River
1948
The Sea of Grass
1947
Great Day in the Morning
1956
Destry Rides Again
1939
I Married a Witch
1942
Texas
1941
The Red Badge of Courage
1951
The Sheepman
1958
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1966
The Tall Target
1951
Red Mountain
1951
Rawhide
1951
The Country Girl
1954
The Invisible Man's Revenge
1944
The Lusty Men
1952
Horizons West
1952
San Antonio
1945
The Howards of Virginia
1940
His Kind of Woman
1951
A Lady Without Passport
1950
The Proud Rebel
1958
Inferno
1953
Our Town
1940
Frontier Gun
1958
Apache Uprising
1965
Voodoo Man
1944
Red Tomahawk
1967
Deadwood Dick
1940
The Bounty Killer
1965
The Lonely Man
1957
Unknown Island
1948
Raton Pass
1951
El Paso
1949
Albuquerque
1948
Border Patrol
1943
False Colors
1943
Attack of the Giant Leeches
1959
Forbidden Trails
1941
Beyond Tomorrow
1940
The Last Hunt
1956
Roseanna McCoy
1949
Station West
1948
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
1948
Cover Up
1949
The First Traveling Saleslady
1956
Dynamite
1949
Texas Carnival
1951
Four Faces West
1948
Too Many Girls
1940
Adventures of Red Ryder
1940
The Road to Denver
1955
Taza, Son of Cochise
1954
The Americano
1955
This Earth Is Mine
1959
In Old Monterey
1939
Days of Jesse James
1939
Rough Riders' Round-up
1939
The Cowboy and the Indians
1949
The Walls of Jericho
1948
She Couldn't Say No
1954
Westward Bound
1944
Outlaws of Stampede Pass
1943
The Kansan
1943
Born to Be Wild
1938
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle
1975
They Call It Murder
1971
The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
1941
Crazy Knights
1944
Gunmen from Laredo
1959
Ma Barker's Killer Brood
1960
Tennessee Champ
1954
Boss of Rawhide
1943
The Phantom
1943
Intruder in the Dust
1949
Outlaw Country
1949
Smoke In The Wind
1975
Gunfire at Indian Gap
1957
Born to the Saddle
1953
Blazing Guns
1943
Harmony Trail
1944
The Fighting Renegade
1939
Smart Guy
1943
Sunset Carson Rides Again
1948
The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
1941
The Return of the Durango Kid
1945
Sheriff of Sage Valley
1942
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
1952
The Utah Kid
1944
Arizona Trail
1943
El Diablo Rides
1939
Death Rides the Range
1939
Arizona Whirlwind
1944
Gunning for Justice
1948
Escape from Red Rock
1957
Gun Town
1946
Everybody's Old Man
1936
Shaggy
1948