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Stuart Whitman: Mark Mccain
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-- Stuart Whitman and Chuck Connors set the bad men straight on Encore Westerns in 2006. The channel will present the entire run of "Cimarron Strip" and "The Rifleman" beginning July and December, respectively. Both shows will each feature hosted segments, with Stuart Whitman handling "Cimarron Strip," while Johnny Crawford ("Mark McCain") talks about "The Rifleman." Each will reminisce about their show, talk about the actors they worked with, and about their life and experiences in Hollywood at that time.
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Whitman has a great supporting role as a slimy gambler in the western-horror epic The White Buffalo (1977), which pits a troubled Wild Bill Hickok (Charles Bronson) against a quasi-mythical beast terrorizing the American Northwest. The White Buffalo is enjoying a belated critical reappraisal and is now considered a triumph of magic realism. The build-up to the final confrontation with the supernatural creature is a white-knuckler. Another film from 1977, Maniac, was marketed as a horror film but really told a ho-hum tale of an Indian killing rich people and demanding extortion money.
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In 1961, Whitman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a child molester in The Mark. He has since appeared in starring and supporting roles in many films, including Francis of Assisi, The Fiercest Heart, The Longest Day, The Comancheros (sharing leading man status with John Wayne), Convicts 4, The Day and the Hour, Signpost to Murder, Shock Treatment, Rio Conchos, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Sands of the Kalahari,"The City Beneath the Sea", An American Dream, The Last Escape, The Decks Ran Red, The Invincible Six, Night of the Lepus, Shatter, Tony Saitta, and Guyana: Crime of the Century.
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Guy Green's social drama stars Stuart Whitman as the title character, a man whose unhealthy childhood has left him bewildered by sex. After an affair with a woman his own age ends badly, Mark finds himself increasingly drawn to young girls, who he feels do not pose the same threat of emasculation that adult women do.
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In what turned out to be the high point of his career, Whitman was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his portrayal of a child molester in The Mark (1961), a role that Richard Burton turned down. Could it be that this gutsy acting choice jinxed Whitman’s career?
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In 1961, Whitman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a child molester in The Mark. He has since appeared in starring and supporting roles in many genres of film.
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