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Jon James Lamont Whiteley (19 February 1945 – 16 May 2020) [1] was a Scottish child film actor and in adult life a distinguished art historian. Life and career.
Jun 3, 2020 · Jon Whiteley was a child actor who starred with Dirk Bogarde twice and won an honorary Oscar at 11. He later became a distinguished curator of Western art at the Ashmolean Museum, specializing in 19th-century French painting and Stradivarius instruments.
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Jun 5, 2020 · Jon Whiteley was a renowned curator of French art at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, who started his career as a child actor in Hollywood films in the 1950s. He won an Academy Award for his role in The Kidnappers and later studied and wrote about French painters and drawings.
May 20, 2020 · Jon Whiteley, who received an honorary juvenile Oscar for his performance in the 1953 British drama The Kidnappers, has died. He was 75. His death was announced by the Ashmolean...
Jon Whiteley. Actor: The Little Kidnappers. Amazingly talented child star Jon Whiteley was born Jon James Lamont Whiteley on February 19, 1945 in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and put together an enviable, albeit brief, career in 1950s film drama.
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May 28, 2020 · Jon Whiteley, who died at 75, was a former assistant keeper of the Ashmolean and a distinguished scholar of French art. He won an honorary Oscar at six for his role in The Kidnappers, but gave up acting to focus on his studies.
May 20, 2020 · Winning an Oscar was a feat child actor Jon Whitely had never dreamt of achieving. In fact, at that stage of his life, the Monymusk youngster was not even remotely aware of the prize or the ...
