American character actor of rather bizarre range, a member of the so-called John Ford Stock Company. Originally a New York stage actor of some repute, Whitehead entered films in the 1930s. He played a wide variety of character parts, often quite different from his own actual age and type. He is probably most familiar as Al Joad in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940). But twenty-two years later, in his fifth film for Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Whitehead at 51 was playing a lollipop-licking schoolboy! He continued to work predominantly on the stage, appearing now and again in films or on television. In his last years, he suffered from cancer and died in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland, where he had lived in semi-retirement for many years. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 1975년 Philadelphia, Here I Come에서 Ben Burton 역을 맡았다. 1968년 겨울의 라이온에서 Bishop of Durham 역을 맡았다. 1967년 Ulysses에서 Alexander J. Dowie 역을 맡았다.