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In the News (Mon 4 Jun 12)

  
  HERE'S JOHNNY...
Johnny was the only 6 year-old who screen tested for the role of Jody Davis, which originally was supposed to be for a 10 year old boy, but when the producers saw the chemistry between Johnny and Anissa Jones (Buffy), they promptly rewrote the parts for 6 year old twins...and a television legend was born!
Johnny portrayed Stevie, the young son that becomes possessed by the spirit that inhabits the house the family lives in.
Johnny also was able to show his own musical prowess as he got to do his own singing throughout the film.
www.johnnywhitaker.com /bio.html   (931 words)

  
  The Winchester Star-Memories Bloom For Ex-Child Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Whitaker was easily recognizable as he rode through the Firefighters’ Parade, with people calling out “Hey, it’s Jody,” something he said has followed him for much of his life.
Keith told Whitaker’s mother to bring her son to the casting of a new TV series he was about to begin shooting.
Whitaker said the character he was auditioning for, Jody, was originally written as a 10-year-old boy, while the character “Buffy” was supposed to be 6.
www.winchesterstar.com /thewinchesterstar/000508/Area_johnny.asp   (651 words)

  
 Johnny Whitaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johnny Whitaker was a American film and TV child actor of the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1965, Johnny landed the role of Scotty Baldwin in the soap opera General Hospital (1963).
Johnny landed the role of Jody Davis in Family Affair, a young boy living in a high-rise apartment in New York, New York.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnny_Whitaker   (257 words)

  
 tvdvdreviews.com -- Sigmund and the Sea Monsters: The Complete First Season DVD Review
As for Johnny and Scott Stuart (Family Affair's Johnny Whitaker and Me and the Chimp's Scott Kolden), they're stuck with Sigmund (Billy Barty in a full-body costume), a naïve, childlike sea monster who looks like a cross between an octopus and a pile of seaweed.
Yes, welcome back to the world of Sid and Marty Krofft, where dragon-like creatures are mayors of magical islands, hats have personalities of their own, and families get sucked into time vortexes that take them to lands filled with dinosaurs and creepy lizard men.
The only problem is that Johnny and Scott's parents are out of town for an extended period of time, leaving the brothers in the care of housekeeper Zelda Marshall (Sister Act's Mary Wickes).
www.tvdvdreviews.com /sigmund1.html   (1474 words)

  
 TV Single Dads:Johnny Whitaker Interview
Johnny - When they introduced me - I was kinda feeling - definitely, the crowd that knows who I am are 27-to-45 - you know, that's the people who know who I am.
Johnny - Oh definitely, yeah - and the funny thing is with Sigmund is people either absolutely loved it - it was one of their favorite shows growing up, or else they had absolutely no idea that it ever existed.
Johnny had to go - - with just ONE question from me! He was kind enough to record an elaborate ID, which you can hear by clicking here.
www.tvdads.com /tvdwhit.shtml   (1068 words)

  
 Johnny Info
Johnny's first lauded performance was with a then little-known director, along with the late Sandy Dennis and Darrin McGavin in Steven Speilburg's "Something Evil" wherein Johnny gave an Emmy-nominated, honorable-mentioned performance as a boy possessed.
Johnny enjoyed Jodie's company so much that he was once again happy to play opposite her as Tom Sawyer in the Musical version of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" wherein Johnny gave Jodie that first on-screen kiss.
During this successful summer run, Johnny, along with the rest of the "Family Affair" Family and their fans were shocked to hear of the tragic death of his co-star Anissa Jones, "Buffy".
drzodandjohnny.com /Johnny_info.htm   (1366 words)

  
 Johnny Depp | Ados.fr
Johnny Depp le rebelle, depuis qu’il est avec Vanessa, s’est assagi.
Johnny Depp se retrouve donc sous les projecteurs de la télé.
Johnny Depp, qui ne vieillit jamais, devait aussi jouer les Peter Pan.
cine.ados.fr /Johnny-Depp.html   (784 words)

  
 Johnny Whitaker Chats at Towne Square 2000!
Johnny was lauded for his role in 'Napoleon and Samantha' with Jodie Foster.
Johnny Whitaker: Well, the writers began it to be ALASKA but now it was changed to Alaska, Louisiana for some reason.
Johnny Whitaker: Then to stay in the business it would be 80% talent and 20% who you know or 70% who you know 20% luck and 10% talent.
members.aol.com /palacechat/JWlog.html   (2367 words)

  
 Whitaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is also a Whitaker, Pennsylvania and an unincorporated village in Washtenaw County, Michigan called Whitaker.
The Whitaker Foundation is an organization that supports biomedical engineering research and education.
Whitaker's Almanack is a reference book published in the U.K. This human name article is a disambiguation page – a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whitaker   (168 words)

  
 Johnny Depp - Fluctuat.net
Fils d’un ingénieur et d’une femme de ménage, Johnny Depp est un adolescent difficile et perturbé.
Sweeney Todd : Johnny Depp tue en chanson
Johnny Depp, l'espion qui venait du froid ?
cinema.fluctuat.net /johnny-depp.html   (1018 words)

  
 dOc treehouse: Napoleon and Samantha (1972)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Although she made her TV debut at the age of three in a Coppertone commercial, this was the first of many Disney films featuring Foster, and one of two also featuring costar Johnny Whitaker, who would play the lead opposite her in Tom Sawyer and would later star in TV's Sigmund and the Seamonsters series.
Napoleon (Whitaker) is an 11 year old who lives with his grandfather (Will Gere), and takes a former circus lion named Major as a pet.
Whitaker also delivers a decent performance, and it was very nice to see the late Will Gere and Ellen Corby (both of The Waltons fame) sharing the screen again.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /treereview.php3?ID=252   (665 words)

  
 Snowball Express DVD Review
Johnny Baxter (Jones) is an employee of a dry Indemnity and Casualty firm in New York.
So, Johnny and the Baxters head west, a family of four complete with wife (Nancy Olson, Sunset Boulevard, The Absent-Minded Professor), son (Johnny Whitaker, who appeared in The Biscuit Eater and Napoleon and Samantha for Disney the same year), and daughter (Kathleen Cody, Charley and the Angel, Superdad).
Rather than giving up on what appears to be a lost cause, Johnny decides the family ought to try and restore things and open it as a great ski lodge which will draw people from all over the country.
www.ultimatedisney.com /snowball.html   (1087 words)

  
 Biographies: Latter-day Saint and/or Utah Film Personalities: W
Along with his brother Wetzel O. Whitaker, Scott Whitaker ran the BYU Motion Picture department during the 1960s and early 70s, writing or serving as a story editor for a large proportion of the Church videos of that era.
Two of Whitaker's films ("Johnny Lingo" and "Cipher in the Snow") are available on video as part of the "BYU Classics" series, and on DVD as part of the "LDS Film Classics" series.
Wetzel Orson Whitaker was a pioneering producer and director of educational and religious films at Brigham Young University, where he is credited with establishing a motion picture studio.
www.ldsfilm.com /bio/bioW2.html   (3184 words)

  
 USAFA Today
I have secured Johnny Whitaker's permission to publish our exchange of e-mails in USAFA today.
The e-mail exchanges must be published verbatim (do not even correct the grammar or the diction!) and in the context for which they were written (.i.e., in direct response to my e-mail).
Johnny Whitaker is to be congratulated for engaging in a productive dialogue.
www.usafatoday.com /?story=35   (2096 words)

  
 Johnny Whitaker Sigmund and the Sea Monster Family Affair Pop Culture Convention TV movie and music Memorabilia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Johnny Whitaker has been a kid and family favorite for a couple of generations now.
Johnny Whitaker began his acting career at the tender age of three.
Johnny Whitaker returned to the small screens in our living rooms in the fall of 1973 in Sid and Marty Krofft's Sigmund And The Sea Monsters starring and singing (in the first season) as Johnny Stuart.
www.spookyempire.com /pop_culture_convention/johnny_whitaker_sigmund.html   (677 words)

  
 Napoleon and Samantha: Nostalgia
Johnny Whitaker was the face everyone recognized as little red-headed, freckle-faced Jody from the long-running television hit, Family Affair.
Whitaker stars as Napoleon Wilson, an orphaned boy who lives with his Grandpa on an Oregon farm.
Johnny Whitaker made four more films for Disney (reuniting with Foster in 1973 for Tom Sawyer) before returning to television in Sid and Marty Krofft’s Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.
www.skooldays.com /categories/movies/mv1285.htm   (403 words)

  
 Shameful Brushes With Fame
My only shameful brush is the faint recollection of my brother John getting into a brawl with Rocky Burnette, son of the rocker Johnny Burnette who died tragically in 64'.
Whitaker is the father of Johnny Whitaker who played "Jody" in the popular television series "Family Affair".
Well into the series, the Whitaker's lived in a neighborhood that would not be considered a good neighborhood by any stretch.
www.eisenbergagency.com /chuck_brush.html   (1156 words)

  
 Johnny Whitaker - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He was the only 6-year-old who screen tested for the role of Jody Davis, which originally was supposed to be for a 10-year-old boy, but when the producers saw the chemistry between Johnny and Anissa Jones (Buffy), they promptly rewrote the parts for 6-year-old twins...and a television legend was born!.
For 13 years, Johnny worked closely with the joint SAG/AFTRA Young Performer's Committee helping current young performers receive the benefits and prepare them for the detriments that a career in show business is likely to produce.
At one point he and two of his sisters and a brother were in a variety act called The Johnny Whitaker Show where they performed at fairs and Mormon church get-togethers.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0924278/bio   (775 words)

  
 Johnny Whitaker Photos - Johnny Whitaker News - Johnny Whitaker Information
Tell the world what you think of Johnny Whitaker, write a review for this person.
General Hospital, the Emmy Award-Winning drama series hailed by critics as the 'The Greatest Soap Opera of All Time', recently celebrated 40 years of broadcasting.
Two boys, Johnny and Scott, were playing on the beach one day when they "meet" Sigmund, a green sea monster with tentacles who looks like moving seaweed.
www.tv.com /johnny-whitaker/person/149502/summary.html   (240 words)

  
 Errata: Johnny Whitaker not great-grandfather of Forest Whitaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Errata: Johnny Whitaker not great-grandfather of Forest Whitaker
We were extraordinarily lax in our recent essay about Hollywood nepotism when we implied that Johnny Whitaker, child star of A Family Affair and Snowball Express, is the great-grandfather of actor Forest Whitaker.
Although only a third of the essay hinged on this assertion, we feel we must point out that Johnny is probably not old enough to be Forest's great-grandfather.
www.erratamag.com /archives/2003/08/johnny_whitaker.html   (131 words)

  
 Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
At the beach, he met Johnny and Scott who took him home and hid him in their club house.
The show continued the Krofft tradition of using a known child actor for the lead, Sigmund's star, Johnny Whitaker, was best known as playing Jody on the long running series, Family Affair.
Extras on the set include episode commentary and interviews from creators/producers Sid and Marty Krofft and actors Johnny Whitaker and Scott Kolden, as well as an interview with Krofft writer/producer Si Rose.
www.70slivekidvid.com /satsm.htm   (425 words)

  
 Napoleon and Samantha movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
Johnny Depp made his co-stars in the movie Chocolat, Judi Dench and Juliette Binoche, sick to their stomachs.
Disney adventure about Napoleon, an orphan (Whitaker), who is befriended by Danny, a college student (Douglas).
After the death of his grandfather, Napoleon decides to take Major, his elderly pet lion, and follow Danny, who is herding goats for the summer, across the American northwest mountains and they are joined by Samantha (Foster in her film debut).
www.moviegoods.com /movie_product.asp?master_movie_id=4256   (269 words)

  
 DVD Pacific   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When Johnny and Scott come home, they find a suspicious piece of seaweed.
When Aunt Zelda's annoying nephew, Leroy, comes to visit, Johnny and Scott must be doubly careful to keep Sigmund out of sight.
After getting Johnny and Scott in trouble with Zelda, Sigmund thinks it best that he run away.
www.dvdpacific.com /item.asp?ID=10510   (209 words)

  
 Johnny Depp, tous les films avec Johnny Depp
Avec : Judi Dench, Carrie-Anne Moss, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin
Avec : Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Emily Watson
Avec : Alain Chabat, Emmanuelle Seigner, Johnny Depp, Claude Berri, Yvan Attal
www.locafilm.com /acteur/1208/johnny-depp.html   (794 words)

  
 ETT NETWORK
Master Acting Class and be with Jeff East (Huck Finn) over the 4th of July Holiday in Arrow Rock Missouri
Johnny was on the 2007 TV LAND AWARDS - Check out the Interview
John O. Whitaker, Jr., C.A.T.C. is available for Family Drug and Alcohol Interventions
drzodandjohnny.com /joinusC.html   (55 words)

  
 Napoleon & Samantha (English/French DVD)
There's magic in the memories as great Disney moments are captured right here for you and your family to enjoy.
Two young children (Johnny Whitaker and Jodie Foster) suddenly find themselves in charge of a gentle, aging circus lion.
However, when they are threatened with being split up by stern authorities, the trio embarks on a perilous journey across the wilds of the American Northwest.
disneyvideos.disney.go.com /moviefinder/products/3365803.html   (116 words)

  
 Johnny Whitaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Johnnie Whitaker / John Whitaker / Johnny Whittaker
Discuss this name with other users on IMDb message board for Johnny Whitaker
Find where Johnny Whitaker is credited alongside another name
www.imdb.com /name/nm0924278   (338 words)

  
 The Biscuit Eater (DVD)
In the classic tradition of Disney's OLD YELLER, THE BISCUIT EATER proves that nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog.
Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (George Spell) are two friends determined, against all odds, to turn a misfit hound into a hero.
Tennessee farmer and dog trainer Harve McNeil (Earl Holliman) tells his son Lonnie that his dog, Moreover, is a good-for-nothing "biscuit eater." But Lonnie and Text won't give up on this untrainable outcast...
disneyvideos.disney.go.com /moviefinder/products/2572603.html   (118 words)

  
 Welcome To the Official Johnny Whitaker Website!
Here you will find all aspects of Johnny's life and his career, starting from his days as a child actor and up until his life today!
John has grown up on both the small screen and the large screen and for a lot of us he has been a large part of our childhood.
If you'd like to keep in touch with other friends and fans of Johnny Whitaker, join JohnnyWhitakerFriends and keep in the know about Johnny and what he's doing and where he'll be.
www.johnnywhitaker.com   (133 words)

  
 BCSD - Johnny Whitaker
Johnny began his acting career at the age of three.
He was six when he won the part of Jody Davis on Family Affair, which was supposed to be for a ten-year-old.
Video of Johnny singing at the Hollywood Bowl
www.boysoloist.com /artist.asp?vid=837   (130 words)

  
 Forest Whitaker, tous les films avec Forest Whitaker
Avec : Jodie Foster, Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker, Kristen Stewart, Dwight Yoakam
Avec : Forest Whitaker, Gabrielle Anwar, Justin Louis
Avec : Kevin Spacey, Kevin Kline, Forest Whitaker, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, E.G. Marshall
www.locafilm.com /acteur/3262/forest-whitaker.html   (691 words)

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