Smoki Whitfield (born Robert Whitfield, and sometimes credited as Jordan Whitfield) was an African American actor, comedian, and musician.[1][2][3]
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Born | Robert Jordan Whitfield August 3, 1918 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Died | November 11, 1967 (aged 49) Los Angeles, California, USA |
Education | University of Oregon |
Occupation | Actor |
Spouse | Eileen Jackson |
Smoki was born in Pittsburgh to John Whitfield and Effie Walker. He attended the University of Oregon, where he was a star athlete and made appearances in school plays.[4][5][6][7]
In the 1940s he began a career as a character actor in Hollywood. He appeared in a third of the 12 Bomba, the Jungle Boy films. Over the next few decades, he amassed more than 50 on-screen credits. In the 1950s, he worked as a manager and MC at a number of Hawaiian nightclubs.[8][9] He later worked at the Top Banana Club in North Hollywood.[10]
Whitfield died in 1967 of a heart attack in North Hollywood after a lengthy illness.[11] He was survived by his wife Eileen Jackson and two sons.[11]
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