Gayne Whitman

{{short description|American actor (1890–1958)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2018}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Gayne Whitman

| image = Gayne Whitman - Feb 1916 FPH.jpg

| caption = Whitman in 1916

| birth_name = Alfred D. Vosburgh

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|03|19|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1958|08|31|1890|03|19|mf=y}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California

| occupation = Actor

| other_names = Alfred Whitman

| yearsactive = 1904-1957

| spouse = Estelle Margaret Allen (1893-1970)

}}

Gayne Whitman (born Alfred D. Vosburgh; March 19, 1890 – August 31, 1958) was an American radio and film actor.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wzi1QjokREkC&q=Gayne+Whitman+actor&pg=PA262|title=The Complete Kay Francis Career Record: All Film, Stage, Radio and Television Appearances|first1=Lynn|last1=Kear|first2=John|last2=Rossman|date=March 30, 2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476602875|access-date=January 13, 2019|via=Google Books}} He appeared in more than 200 films between 1904 and 1957. In some early films, he was credited under his birth name. He was born in Chicago, Illinois.

Whitman's theatrical debut came when he carried a spear behind an actor portraying King Richard III in a production in Indianapolis.

Allen Vosburgh, he was the leading man in the film Princess of the Dark (1917). Soon after that, he changed his screen name to Alfred Whitman because "1917 was not a good time to have a German sounding name."{{cite book |last1=Soister |first1=John T. |last2=Nicolella |first2=Henry |last3=Joyce |first3=Steve |title=American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929 |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786487905 |pages=467–468 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ajXwxJuYd5gC&q=%22Gayne+Whitman%22&pg=PA468 |access-date=6 April 2019 |language=en}}

Beginning in 1921, Whitman acted at the Morosco Theater in Los Angeles. He returned to films in 1925 when he received a contract with Warner Bros.{{cite news |title=Gayne Whitman to Do Pictures |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30339517/gayne_whitman/ |access-date=6 April 2019 |work=The Owensboro Messenger |date=April 16, 1925 |location=Kentucky, Owensboro |page=8|via = Newspapers.com}}

On radio, Whitman played the title role in Chandu the Magician,{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows|date=1999|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.|isbn=978-0-7864-4513-4|page=70}} was the narrator on Lassie{{r|rp|page1=192-193}} and Strange as It Seems,{{r|rp|page1=319}} and was an announcer on Paducah Plantation{{r|rp|page1=264}} and other programs.