Jesse White

Jesse White

Nascimento : 1917-01-03, Buffalo, New York, USA

Morte : 1997-01-09

História

Jesse White (January 4, 1917 – January 9, 1997) was an American television, film, and stage character actor. He is best remembered for portraying the Maytag repairman in television commercials, a role he played from 1967 to 1988. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Perfil

Jesse White

Filmes

Matinee: Uma Sessão Muito Louca
Mr. Spector
Em Key West, uma pequena cidade do estado da Flórida, em plena Crise dos Mísseis de 1962, quando a população americana entrou em pânico com a possibilidade de um bombardeio nuclear vindo de Cuba, o produtor Lawrence Woosley tenta tirar proveito da situação, convencendo um grande exibidor de filmes a lançar em grande circuito sua mais recente criação sobre um homem que sofreu uma incrível mutação genética se transformando em uma gigantesca formiga.
Night Of 100 Stars III
Self
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
O Gato Que Veio do Espaço
Earnest Ernie
Espaçonave com um alienígena semelhante a um gato sofre acidente, o que o obriga a descer na Terra e encontrar alguém que conserte sua engenhoca. Usando um colar especial, ele consegue se comunicar com humanos e acaba se unindo ao Dr. Frank (Ken Berry).
Won Ton Ton, o Cachorro que Salvou Hollywood
Rudy's Agent
Em 1924, Estie Del Ruth vem para Hollywood para se tornar uma atriz, mas o cão, que acompanha, se torna a estrela. Mas Hollywood tem suas próprias regras de sucesso.
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
Nashville Girl
C.Y. Ordell
A Kentucky-born maiden realizes her dream of becoming a country music star. However, she discovers that her single-minded determination has caused her to lose things far more precious than fame or money when she gets involved with a group of corrupt music executives.
Return to Campus
Sports announcer
A 55-year-old former high school football player finally gets to fulfill his life-long dream and play in the big game in this autobiographical fantasy.
Las Vegas Lady
Big Jake
In Las Vegas, Lucky and two of her girlfriends, Carol and Lisa, plan to steal half a million dollars from the sadistic manager of the Circus Circus Casino. A shadowy man is their contact and organizer. Each of the women could be a weak link in a scheme that has to be flawless: Lucky's boyfriend is a security officer at the casino, Lisa is a trapeze artist who's now plagued with vertigo, and Carol is in debt to a nasty thug - plus, as a Black woman, she's subject to additional harassment. Can the gals pull off the heist, or is the plan, with it's mysterious organizer, too complicated to succeed?
Brothers O'Toole
Mayor
The O'Toole Brothers are Eastern con men, exceptionally good at talking their way out of tight situations. When they ride into Molybdenum, Colorado, not suspecting the riches beneath the streets, they turn the sleepy mining town upside-down for their search for the gold. High-spirited hijinks ensue, with the brothers involved in everything from stolen gambling equipment to a "belchin', cussin' and spittin' " contest.
Of Thee I Sing
Matthew Fulton
CBS' updated version of the classic Gershwin musical, cast largely with stars who were all appearing in then-current CBS television series.
Harvey
Duane Wilson
Elwood P. Dowd's constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in her plans to marry off her daughter. However, when she decides to put Elwood in a mental institution, a mix-up occurs, and she finds herself committed instead. It's now up to Elwood and "Harvey" to straighten out the mess.
Bless the Beasts & Children
Sid Shecker
A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.
Dad... Can I Borrow the Car?
A live-action short, using many avant-garde film techniques, that looks at American car culture in the late 1960s. The main section deals with the many trials and obstacles a teenager must face on the path to being able to drive. Surviving the driver's education class is only the first step, as the teenager must then pass his driving test, and then finally get permission to borrow the family car.
Togetherness
Henry
Nina, a gorgeous blonde communist, attracts the attention of two wealthy bon vivants. Prince Solomon and Jack attempt to impress the young woman and win out over their rival, surrounded by the stunning scenery of Greece.
The Reluctant Astronaut
Donelli
Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a lay person into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.
The Spirit Is Willing
Fess Dorple
When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.
Fantasma de Biquíni
J. Sinister Hulk
A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.
Ele, Ela e o Pijama
J. Sinister Hulk
A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl.
A House Is Not a Home
Rafferty
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
Em Busca do Amor
Tiger Shay
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
Deu a Louca no Mundo
Air Traffic Controller
Após um longo tempo na prisão, homem cai de carro num precipício. Antes de morrer, ele conta às pessoas que tentam socorrê-lo onde escondera uma grande fortuna. Inicia-se então uma louca corrida ao tesouro. Oscar de Efeitos Sonoros.
The Yellow Canary
Ed Thornburg
Andy is an arrogant pop singer about to be divorced by his wife who treats his staff badly. On the same night he starts a job at a theater in Los Angeles his infant son is kidnapped. Despite requests from the lead police officer on the case, Lieutenant Bonner, Paxton plays along with the kidnappers as they string him along even though they are willing to kill.
Detetive Mixuruca
Pete Flint
Lester March (Jerry Lewis) é um órfão de 25 anos que ganha a vida consertando aparelhos eletrônicos. Sua verdadeira paixão são as histórias de detetive e seu sonho é um dia se tornar um. Ele e seu melhor amigo, Pete Flint (Jesse White), ficam sabendo do caso de uma família que está procurando seu sobrinho desaparecido e como recompensa estão oferecendo Us$ 100.000,00. Na tentativa de conseguir o dinheiro e de viver uma aventura de detetive, Lester invade a casa da família em busca de provas e pistas. Porém, ao observar as fotos do sobrinho desaparecido, ele percebe que se parece muito com o rapaz.
Three Blondes In His Life
Ed Kelly
Tough insurance investigator Mahoney goes to LA to look into the murder of a fellow investigator. It's found that the murdered man knew three different women — all blondes — and with each he had had a love affair. What is their connection to the crime? And will Mahoney bed all of them as well?
Sail A Crooked Ship
McDonald
A bungling burglar, determined to go down in the annals of crime as a genius, steals a ship in New York in order to rob a bank in Boston.
O Homem de Duas Cabeças
Corporal Joseph Praeger
Na época da Invasão da Normandia, um soldado americano é chamado a representar um coronel britânico para confundir os espiões e assassinos nazistas em Londres. O soldado americano Ernie Williams, reconhecidamente um molenga, tem uma estranha semelhança com o coronel britânico MacKenzie. Williams, também um mestre de imitação e disfarce, é convocado para representar o Coronel, aparentemente para permitir que o Coronel faça uma viagem secreta para o Oriente. O que não é contado para Williams é que o coronel recentemente foi alvo de assassinos. Depois que o avião do Coronel pousa no oriente, o plano muda e Williams mantém o disfarce para confundir os nazistas até o dia D.
The Right Approach
Brian Freer
An opportunistic young Hollywood singer, loyal only to himself, steps on everyone he meets in order to achieve success and fame.
Tomboy and the Champ
Windy Skiles
A young Texas cowgirl raises a prize-winning calf, whose presence helps her recover from polio.
A Fever in the Blood
Sgt. Michael Beers
A judge, a district attorney and a U. S. senator--each hoping to be elected the next governor--attempt to manipulate a murder trial to advance their own political ambitions. Director Vincent Sherman's 1961 drama stars Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Don Ameche, Jack Kelly, Angie Dickinson, Herbert Marshall, Jesse White, Parley Baer, Carroll O'Connor, Ray Danton, Andra Martin, Rhodes Reason and Louise Lorimer.
The Big Night
Wegg
Big money means big crime in this noir drama following the exploits of Frankie (Randy Sparks), a young man who stumbles on a stash of cash and finds himself way in over his head during the course of one sordid evening filled with greed, lust and violence. The stolen money creates friction between Frankie and his girlfriend, Ellie (Venetia Stevenson), while Frankie must deal with school, his job and the true crooks on his tail.
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Leo 'Butcher' Bremer
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
Até o Último Alento
Lou Michaelson
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.
Johnny Trouble
Parsons
An elderly woman becomes convinced that a trouble-making college student is her grandson she's never met. This was Ethel Barrymore's final film.
God Is My Partner
Louis 'The Lump' Lumpkin
A retired surgeon starts giving away money to religious causes and his family tries to file suit, claiming that he's incompetent.
Designing Woman
Charlie Arneg
A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
A Semente Maldita
Emory Wages
Garota de oito anos é a maldade em pessoa, além de egoísta e mentirosa. Somente a mãe sabe a verdade sobre essa terrível criança. Rhoda, de rosto angelical, é capaz de elaborar planos diabólicos para conseguir tudo que deseja, uma sociopata mirim em potencial. Primeiro filme, onde temos uma criança como vilã, que influenciou uma leva de filmes do gênero: A Profecia, Aldeia dos Amaldiçoados, Anjo Malvado, A Órfã, etc.
De Volta da Eternidade
Pete Boswick
A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found. A remake of Five Came Back (1939).
He Laughed Last
Max Lassiter
A 1920s chorus girl inherits a slain gangster's empire.
The Come On
J.J. McGonigle
A con woman tries to swindle her partner-in-crime husband with the help of one of her former marks. But is she to be trusted?
The Girl Rush
Ludwig - Pit Boss
When her compulsive-gambler father dies, leaving her with an inheritance that amounts to zip, single gal Kim Halliday jumps at a caller's claim that she's part-owner of a Las Vegas "hotel." But hilarity ensues when she flies to Sin City to see it. While a wealthy casino owner eyes her dilapidated property, she takes a chance and tries to sell it to an hotelier's wealthy son.
Não Serás um Estranho
Ben Cosgrove
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.
Hell's Half Acre
Tubby Otis
A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.
Testemunha do Crime
Police Sgt. Eddie Vincent
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
Entardecer da Vida
Willie
An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.
Champ for a Day
Willie Foltis
An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be found. But Ma and Pa Karlsen, owners of Karlsen's Kozy Kottages motel and restaurant take him under their wing. He meets Miss Gormley who is also there to meet the no-show manager who is blackmailing her brother. Dolan still hasn't arrived by the date of the fight but, to the surprise of sports-promoters Tom Healy and Dominic Guido, George shows up and wins the fight. This wins him the friendship of trainer Al Muntz and the enmity of Willie Foltis, a punchy ex-fighter and a Healy henchman. This leads George to a fight with "Soldier" Freeman, whose manager Scotty Cameron has made arrangements for the favored-Freeman to take a dive, so he and Healy and Guido can clean up betting on the underdog. But Honest George has other plans.
A Morte Tem Seu Preço
Professor
Kittridge is hired by the villans but turns to defend the rancher Saxon after learning the true situation. Kittrige wins Saxon's ranch with a cut of the cards but Saxon has other reasons for loosing the gamble. Telford and Lake try everything from bushwacking to setting a wildfire to stop the Saxon/Kittridge herd of cattle from reaching the railhead.
A Rainha do Mar
Doc Cronnol
Filme biográfico da campeã australiana de natação e artista Annette Kellerman. Depois de superar a pólio Kellerman alcança a fama e cria um escândalo quando seu maiô de uma peça é considerado indecente. Conta a história da sensação da natação australiana Annette Kellerman, que superou a pólio infantil para continuar e conquistar a fama como nadadora profissional e estrela de cinema nas primeiras décadas do século XX. Ao mesmo tempo, ela escandalizou o mundo vestindo uma roupa de banho de uma peça só, em praias públicas, muito antes desse modelo ser aceito pela sociedade educada, e causou outras polêmicas também. A história foi um veículo perfeito, décadas depois, para mostrar o talento da estrela Esther Williams na década de 1950, e o apelido de Kellerman foi usado pela revista Life para a Sra. Williams quando a chamou de "Sereia de Milhões de Dólares". (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
The Girl in White
Alec
The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.
Death of a Salesman
Stanley
Willy Loman is an aging salesman who was recently fired from his job. Dealing with feelings of failure, Willy begins to relive events from the past that involve his older son, Biff, and his wife, Linda. Willy tries to learn from past mistakes and works to make amends with his family, but his biggest struggle is to make peace with himself over a failed dream of financial success.
Esperto Contra Esperto
Georgie Markham
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star is in demand. Unfortunately no one can find him. When a lookalike sends in a photo, the marketing team hires him to impersonate Callaway. Things get sticky when the real Callaway eventually shows up.
Francis Goes to the Races
Frank Damer
In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter get a job working on a horse-breeder's ranch. They end up saving it from financial ruin when Francis, who has the inside track with the racehorses, provides Peter with names of the winners before the races are run. Sure enough Peter finds himself with a fistful of cash and uses it to buy a racehorse for the farm. Unfortunately, the horse he chooses is suffering from a debilitating lack of confidence. When not dealing with the mare, Peter finds time to court the horse breeder's niece and trying to avoid the gangsters who want in on the winnings.
Bedtime for Bonzo
Babcock
College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.
Meu Amigo Harvey
Wilson
Devido à sua insistência de que ele tem um coelho invisível de 1,80 m de altura como seu melhor amigo, um homem de meia-idade lunático é considerado por sua família como insano. Mas ele pode ser mais sábio do que se pensa. O clássico sucesso dos palcos recebe o tratamento de Hollywood na história de Elwood P. Dowd, que torna-se amigo de um fantasma na forma de um coelho de tamanho humano chamado Harvey que só ele vê (e alguns outros privilegiados na ocasião também.) Depois que sua irmã tenta interná-lo numa instituição mental, uma comédia de erros se segue. Elwood e Harvey se tornam os catalisadores para que uma família possa remendar suas feridas e para o romance florescer em lugares inesperados.
Katie Did It
Jim Dilloway
Katherine Standish, who has been brought up in a strict manner in a prudish New England town, falls in love with a city slicker commercial artist, Peter Van Arden. The romance blossoms until Katie falls victim of some false information, and becomes convinced that Peter is already married and the father of two children.
Guilty Bystander
Masher
O ex-policial Max Thursday se embebeda em um hotel barato quando sua ex-mulher aparece com más notícias e o manda numa corrida desesperada contra o tempo e a bebida. Uma relíquia noir independente do diretor Joseph Lerner, filmada inteiramente em Nova York. Um filme independente repleto de bebida e paranoia, filmado inteiramente em lugares reais nas ruas de Nova Iorque.
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Customer (uncredited)
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
O Beijo da Morte
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Noivas do Tio Sam
Jesse White (uncredited)
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance