
Acting
Jack Whitaker
Born 1924-05-18 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Born in Philadelphia, Whitaker joined WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, where he broadcast weather and sports. His colleagues included Ed McMahon and John Facenda. Whitaker also did color commentary for the Philadelphia Eagles in the late 50s. He also became a play-by-play broadcaster in 1960, when the Eagles won the NFL Championship. In 1961, Whitaker joined CBS Sports, where he covered the first Super Bowl, Secretariat’s Triple Crown, golf’s majors, and boxing. He also served as a studio host for The NFL Today. Of all the sports Whitaker covered, golf was the sport he enjoyed the most. Whitaker did get in a bit of trouble at the 1966 Masters when he offended the Masters chairman, Clifford Roberts, by referring to the gallery at the 18th hole as a “mob.” Whitaker covered Ruffian’s life-threatening injury and fatal breakdown in 1975. It inspired a passage Whitaker commented on. “A false step here and the years of planning and breeding and training and loving came to an end. A horse with speed, stamina, and heart. A horse, like the Bible says, ‘whose neck is clothed in thunder.’” Whitaker moved to ABC in 1982. Whitaker participated in the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1988. He also covered sports for World News Tonight, 20/20, and Nightline. He provided historical imagery while broadcasting, including what he said during the 1982 British Open in Scotland: “Playing in the British Open is like reading American history at Independence Hall or studying opera at La Scala. It’s golf at its most simple, its most pure, its most magnificent.” Whitaker was also honored with numerous awards, including an Emmy in 1979, induction into the Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in Philadelphia in 2003, and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sports Emmy Awards in 2012. Another accolade was that Whitaker was the only living play-by-play announcer from the first 21 Super Bowls. Jack Whitaker passed away in 2019 at the age of 95.
Acting credits
5.2Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago.
Hot to Trot
1988
NRIn his new film, Spirit of Golf, photographer and documentary filmmaker Christopher Felver traces his personal 20-year odyssey in search of the essence of the “auld Scots game.” Inspired by Michael Murphy’s book, Golf in the Kingdom, he travels to many of golf’s historic, fabled courses: St Andrews, Pebble Beach, Augusta National, among others. He interviews many of the game’s great champions and more than a few colorful characters, who are asked the question, “What is the spirit of golf?” We hear from Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller, the wonderfully unique Moe Norman, Kathy Whitworth and Nancy Lopez, and notable teachers such as David Leadbetter, “Butch” Harmon and commentators Herbert Warren Wind, Jack Whitaker, and Jim Nantz. All the answers are marvelously diverse, funny, and poetic… just like the game itself.
Spirit of Golf
2023
10.0The Kingdom of Heaven is a series of short stories called parables. As Jesus teaches the people each parable, some begin to understand what the “Kingdom of Heaven” is like. Some have “ears that will not hear” and are not willing to become followers of the Savior. At the Second Coming they will not be counted as His own.
The Kingdom of Heaven
1991
4.4Ex-Navy SEAL Brad Cartowski is injured during an attack at Athens airport by terrorists who kidnap his wife and fly her on a hijacked plane to North Africa. Cartowski goes in pursuit, aided by another ex-SEAL, Cody Grant. Cartowski soon finds the terrorists' hide-out but is captured and electro-tortured before he manages to escape. He soon returns with reinforcements to rescue his wife and to wreak vengeance on Carlos, head of the terrorist ring.
Deadly Heroes
1993
8.5Saul of Tarsus is one of the most dramatic stories of repentance found in the Bible. Rabbi Gamaliel is unable to convince his friend Saul, the arch-enemy and persecutor of Christians, to mend his ways. Saul is changed forever when the resurrected Lord miraculously appears to him on the Road to Damascus. Saul becomes reborn as Paul, one of the greatest missionaries and apostles ever for Jesus Christ’s gospel.
Saul of Tarsus
1990
9.5John the Baptist is a story of courage and conviction seen through the life of one of God’s greatest prophets who gave everything to prepare the way for the Lord. It begins with the blessing John’s birth was to his aged parents. John grows in strength and integrity as he stands against political and spiritual adversity to preach the coming of the Lord. Finally, John beholds and baptizes Jesus, the Lamb of God.
John the Baptist
1990
9.0Babylonian forces invade Jerusalem and carry away many of the city’s finest young people, including Daniel and his three young friends, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. In captivity, the youths are in the king’s service and outperform all their rivals— pleasing the king and frustrating their enemies. When Darius, the new king, makes Daniel his first president, Daniel’s enemies plan a trap to have him killed. When Daniel survives being thrown in the lions’ den, he proves that God still rules over the affairs of men.
Daniel
1993
NRThis film, shot by filmmakers from NASA, the U.S. Space Agency, chronicles the events leading up to human spaceflight. It shows the training of pilots, the technical description of inhabited capsule launches, and their guidance its from the ground and from inside the cabin itself. The strictly technical documentary shows the preparation of an actual launch to put a Mercury capsule into orbit. We meet Shepard and Glenn here, and of the latter we see the triple orbital flight with long sequences from inside the cabin studying the cosmonaut's reactions.
The Mastery of Space
1962