Johnny Whitaker
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| Johnny Whitaker | |
 Johnny Whitaker was a American film and TV child actor of the 1960s and 1970s. |
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| Birth name | John O. Whitaker, Jr. |
| Born | December 13, 1959 (age 46) Van Nuys, California |
| Official site | JohnnyWhitaker.com |
| Notable roles | Jody Davis in Family Affair Tom Sawyer in Tom Sawyer |
John O. Whitaker, Jr., better known as Johnny, was a child actor and continues to work in show business. He was born on December 13, 1959, in Van Nuys, California, and started his professional acting career at the age of three by appearing in a television commercial for a local used car dealer. In 1965, Johnny landed the role of Scotty Baldwin in the soap opera General Hospital (1963). He then went on to star in a major feature film, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) which also starred Brian Keith, an actor who would later play Johnny's uncle in the television series, Family Affair (1966).
Johnny landed the role of Jody Davis in the American telvision show Family Affair and charmed viewers with his performance as an orphaned boy living in a high-rise apartment in New York, New York, with his sisters, Buffy (Anissa Jones) and Cissy (Kathy Garver), his uncle, Bill, and Bill's butler, Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot). While a regular on the show, he also starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production The Littlest Angel in 1969.
After Family Affair went off the air in 1971, he went on to star in the Sid and Marty Krofft series Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (1973) as well as in other films including The Biscuit Eater (1972), Napoleon and Samantha (1972). Tom Sawyer (1973). and The Magic Pony (1977).
Whitaker is a practicing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints[1]
