Jon Whiteley
Jon Whiteley (born 19 February 1945 in Monymusk, Scotland) was a child actor in films.
Whiteley appeared in five films during his brief career, and it was for the second of these, The Little Kidnappers (1953) that he, along with co-star Vincent Winter, was awarded an Academy Juvenile Award for this film. He only appeared in three films after this, including The Spanish Gardener (1956), before his acting career ended when his mother insisted on his passing the Eleven Plus exams.
Whiteley is now a respected art historian at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. He wrote his Doctorate on Paul Delaroche. He has catalogued all the French Drawings in the museum, and authored and co-authored several books on artists including Ingres, Puvis de Chavannes and Claude Lorrain. He published a book on the Ashmolean's Stringed Instruments in 2009, and is working on a catalogue of the later French paintings in the Museum.
His wife is art historian Dr Linda Whiteley. They have two children.
He was made a chevalier (knight) of the French Order of Arts and Letters in May 2009
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Hunted | Robbie | aka The Stranger in Between (USA) |
| 1953 | The Little Kidnappers (USA title) | Harry | Academy Juvenile Award |
| 1955 | Moonfleet | John Mohune | |
| 1956 | The Spanish Gardener | Nicholas Brande | |
| 1957 | The Weapon | Erik Jenner | |
| The Adventures of Robin Hood | Davey | Episode - The Christmas Goose | |
External links
References
Jon Whiteley (1 Mar 2004), The Ashmolean Museum: Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings, Ashmolean Museum, ISBN 978-1854441874
Jon Whiteley (1 Jan 1989), Oxford and the Pre-Raphaelites, Ashmolean Handbooks (second ed.), Ashmolean Museum, ISBN 978-0907849940
Jon Whiteley (Jul 1979), 19th Century European Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Ashmolean Museum, ISBN 978-0900090622
Jon Whiteley (31 Jan 2011), Lucien Pisarro in England: The Eragny Press 1895-1914, Ashmolean Museum, ISBN 978-1854442536
Jon Whiteley (28 Dec 2011), Claude Lorrain and the Poetry of Landscape, Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Jon Whiteley (June 1977), Ingres, Hippocrene Books, ISBN 978-0846702498
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