Ernest Whitman was an actor, in King for a Day, The Prisoner of Shark Island, The Green Pastures, Jesse James, Gone With the Wind, Among the Living, Cabin in the Sky, Stormy Weather, The Lost Weekend, My Brother Talk to Horses, Banjo and The Sun Shines Bright, his last film. He also was on TV's Beulah from 1952 to 1953, as Bill Jackson.