Known for:	Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 min
Birth name:	Stuart Maxwell Whitman
Birthday:	1 February 1926, San Francisco, California, USA
Height:	6' (1.83 m)

Brother of actor Kipp Whitman Sons, Anthony Whitman (b. 1953), Michael Whitman (b. 1954) and Scott Whitman (b. 1958) Daughter, Linda Whitman (b. 1956) Alfred Hitchcock considered him, along with Cliff Robertson, Robert Loggia(who played the part in Psycho II) and Tom Tryon, for the "Sam Loomis" role in Psycho, but the part went to John Gavin. Thanks to good financial investing, he had amassed a personal fortune of $100 million as of 1998. He and his French-born second wife Caroline Boubis have a son, James. Was a light-heavyweight boxer while serving the Army. Ironically, it was his role as a prizefighter in the play "Dr. Christian" that brought him his first leading role in a movie, playing Johnny in Johnny Trouble opposite Ethel Barrymore. Initially studied both law and drama at Los Angeles City College after he was discharged from the Army in 1948.

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