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Anne Whitfield Dies: ‘White Christmas’, Prolific TV Actor Was 85
Anne Whitfield was 15 when she was cast in the 1954 Hollywood Christmas classic White Christmas.
The actor, whose TV credits stretch from I Married Joan and Father Knows Best through The Six Million Dollar Man and Adam-12, suffered what her family describes as an “unexpected accident” during a walk in her neighborhood. At 15 she was cast by director Michael Curtiz in the movie musical White Christmas starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen. She later worked as a steward for clean water at the Department of Ecology for the State of Washington, and served as an activist and community organizer to fight climate change, transparency in political campaign financing, fair electoral systems, voter registration in swing states, and caring for the un-housed, among other causes.
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