James Whitmore Jr.


James Allen Whitmore Jr., is an American actor and television director. He is best known for his roles as Captain Jim Gutterman on the television program Baa Baa Black Sheep, Freddie Beamer in The Rockford Files, and Sgt Bernie Terwilliger in Hunter, and since the 1980s as a prolific television director. He is the son of actor James Whitmore.

Life and career

Born in Manhattan, New York, Whitmore Jr. is the son of Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning actor James Whitmore and Nancy Mygatt. James Whitmore Jr. began his acting career relatively late. He has had recurring guest-starring roles on the TV series The Rockford Files and Hunter. He also appeared in two episodes of Magnum, P.I. and an episode of Battlestar Galactica before directing many episodes of series by Donald P. Bellisario, the creator of Magnum and a writer on Galactica.
Whitmore occasionally acts in the episodes he directs, such as two episodes of Quantum Leap. In that series, as well as several others, he played different characters in each appearance, rather than recurring roles.
In addition to directing episodes of shows for Bellisario, Whitmore directed episodes of more than one series for Joss Whedon. Whitmore directed the final episodes of two different series. After Leap, Whitmore again directed Scott Bakula in episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise, NCIS: New Orleans, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. He also directed David Boreanaz in both Angel and Bones. The Pretender reunited Whitmore with many of the same writing staff as Quantum Leap.

Filmography

Director

  • 21 Jump Street
  • 24
  • Angel
  • Beverly Hills, 90210
  • Blue Bloods
  • Bones
  • Brooklyn South
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • The Cleaner
  • Cold Case
  • The Commish
  • Crowfoot
  • CSI: NY
  • Dark Angel
  • Dawson's Creek
  • Dead Like Me
  • Elsbeth
  • Evil
  • Ferris Bueller
  • Get Real
  • The Good Fight
  • The Good Wife
  • Hawaii Five-0
  • Hunter
  • JAG
  • Jericho
  • Las Vegas
  • Madam Secretary
  • Mr. and Mrs. Smith
  • NCIS
  • NCIS: Hawaii
  • NCIS: Los Angeles
  • NCIS: New Orleans
  • NCIS: Origins
  • Notorious
  • Nowhere Man
  • Person of Interest
  • The Pretender
  • Profiler
  • Providence
  • Quantico
  • Quantum Leap
  • Ray Donovan
  • The Resident
  • Roswell
  • Star Trek: Enterprise
  • Tequila and Bonetti
  • The Unit
  • The X-Files
  • Witchblade
  • ''Young Americans''

    Actor

  • Baa Baa Black Sheep as Capt. James 'Jim' Gutterman
  • The Rockford Files as Freddie Beamer
  • Lou Grant as Nick Boyer / Officer Trask
  • The Boys in Company C as Lt. Archer
  • The Gypsy Warriors as Captain Sheldon Alhern
  • Battlestar Galactica as Robber
  • The Eddie Capra Mysteries as Dr. Timothy Faulkner
  • A Force of One as Moskowitz
  • The Long Riders as Mr. Rixley
  • Magnum, P.I. as Sebastian Nuzo / Billy Joe Bob Little
  • The Greatest American Hero as Norman Fackler / Byron Bigsby / Gordon McCready
  • Simon & Simon as Campaign manager Al Goddard / Bill Freeman / Paul Scully
  • Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder as Major Flaherty
  • Purple Hearts as Bwana
  • Airwolf as Sam Houston / Maj. Sam Roper
  • Highway to Heaven as Richard Gaines
  • Hardcastle and McCormick as Travis Baker / Kenneth Boyer
  • Hunter as Sgt. Bernie Terwilliger
  • The Twilight Zone as Ira Richman / Sheriff Dennis Wells
  • Quantum Leap as Police Captain / Sheriff Clayton Fuller / Bob Crockett
  • Stringer as Gunman