Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James A. Westerfield (22 March 1913 – 20 September 1971) was an American actor of stage, film, and television. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, to candy-maker Brasher Omier Westerfield and his wife Dora Elizabeth Bailey, he was raised in Detroit, Michigan. (A news story in the June 12, 1949, issue of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle calls the information in the preceding sentence into question. It describes Westerfield as "the son of a famous producer-director" and s...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Set This Town on Fire
1973
as Cark Rickter
After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the eyewitness whose testimony convicted him has seco...

Dead Aim
1971
as John Applebee
A traveling gravedigger during an (unspecified) war adopts a orphan he finds alone in the desert. After the war with the orphan grown and business slo...

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
1970
as Sheriff Berry
A frontier huckster, Colonel Ryder, and a young orphan, Davey, operate a travelling tent show. They are loaned an elephant by an old friend, Molly, wh...

Bartleby
1969
as The Lawyer
Bartleby, an enigmatic man who calmly refuses to carry out his duties, is introduced in this period dramatization of Melville’s haunting story as a sc...

The Love God?
1969
as Rev. Wilkerson
Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive fi...

True Grit
1969
as Judge Parker
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marsha...

Smith!
1969
as Sheriff
When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who's well known for his tolerance for Indians, since ...

Now You See It, Now You Don't
1968
as Capt. Boyle
A bumbling art expert, hired by an insurance company to protect a Rembrandt on loan from the Louvre, schemes to steal it.

Blue
1968
as Abe Parker
A young man is torn between the woman he loves and his loyalty to his father, the leader of a Mexican gang.

Hang 'em High
1968
as Prisoner
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his...

A Man Called Gannon
1968
as Amos
A seasoned cowboy takes a young tender-foot under his wing. They become embroiled in a range war, and end up on opposite sides.

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966
as Jack Balter
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.

Scalplock
1966
as Nehemiah
This Western is a pilot for the series "The Iron Horse," in which a dapper frontier gambler wins a railroad line in a poker game and has his hands ful...

The Further Adventures of Gallegher
1965
as Charley Mardis
The young copyboy helps the town’s first female newspaper reporter, who is writing a series on confidence men. The swindlers are caught up in a sting,...

That Funny Feeling
1965
as Officer Brokaw
Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him b...

The Sons of Katie Elder
1965
as Mr. Vennar
The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for her funeral and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of ...

Bikini Beach
1964
as Cop #2
A millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is int...

Man's Favorite Sport?
1964
as Policeman
Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he cr...

Son of Flubber
1963
as Officer Hanson
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hope...

Birdman of Alcatraz
1962
as Jess Younger
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stro...

Homicidal
1961
as Alfred S. Adrims
A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a wheelchair...

The Absent-Minded Professor
1961
as Officer Hanson
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a har...

The Plunderers
1960
as Mike Baron
Four young toughs have ridden into Trail City and claimed it as easy pickings for their bullying and gunplay. The whole town will be overrun by lawles...

Wild River
1960
as Cal Garth
A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the loca...

The Hangman
1959
as Herb Loftus
A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town....

The Gunfight at Dodge City
1959
as Reverend Howard
Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is ki...

The Shaggy Dog
1959
as Officer Hanson
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an...

Old Man
1958
as Warden
In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.

The Proud Rebel
1958
as Birm Bates
Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned ...

Cowboy
1958
as Mike Adams
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Ree...

Decision at Sundown
1957
as Otis, the Bartender
A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.

Jungle Heat
1957
as Harvey Mathews
Japanese communists attempt to take over Hawaii and only Dr. Jim Ransom can stop them.

The Helen Morgan Story
1957
as Frank Piggin
Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her ...

Three Brave Men
1956
as Chief O'Reilly
A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he's fired for suspected Communist beliefs.

Away All Boats
1956
The story of USS 'Belinda', a U.S. naval ship, and its crew during the battle of the Pacific 1943-1945, as it prepares for action and landing troops o...

Man with the Gun
1955
as Mr. Zender
A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also finds a town and sheriff afraid of their own sh...

Lucy Gallant
1955
as Harry Wilson
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.

The Scarlet Coat
1955
as Col. Jameson
An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.

The Cobweb
1955
as James Petlee
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.

Chief Crazy Horse
1955
as Caleb Mantz
When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in ...

The Violent Men
1955
as Sheriff Magruder
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and...

Three Hours to Kill
1954
as Sam Minor
After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a flashback, we learn how he was framed for murder but ...

The Human Jungle
1954
as Marty Harrison
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a...

On the Waterfront
1954
as Big Mac
Terry Malloy is a kindhearted dockworker, and former boxer, who is tricked by his corrupt bosses into leading his friend to death. After falling in lo...
The Bachelor Party
1953
as Bookkeeper
Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts t...

The Whistle at Eaton Falls
1951
as Joe London
A newly promoted plant supervisor finds himself in the position of having to announce a layoff of his fellow workers.

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950
as Harvey (Zoo Attendant) (uncredited)
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money whic...

Side Street
1950
as Charlie (policeman)
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a...

The Chase
1946
as Job the Butler
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

Undercurrent
1946
as Henry Gilson
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant...

Around the World
1943
as Bashful Marine
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops d...

The Pride of the Yankees
1942
as Spectator (uncredited)
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

The Magnificent Ambersons
1942
as Policeman at Accident (uncredited)
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

About Face
1942
as Soldier with Daisy (uncredited)
Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.

Highway West
1941
as Swede, Trucker at Cafe
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

The Howards of Virginia
1940
as Backwoodsman
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the ...