- Jeffrey Hunter, The True Story of Jesse James, 1957. Early casting for Frank James - but he would have buried the lightweight Robert Wagner’s Jesse. The following year, they co-starred for In Love and War, 1958.
- Ricky Nelson, Rio Bravo, 1958.
- John Gavin, Psycho, 1960. Alfred Hitchcock’s first choice proved too pricey for the November 30, 1959, start of the low budget, “TV-style” Paramount movie #9401. (Hitch soon dubbed Gavin... “The stiff”)
- Pat Boone, Goodbye Charlie, 1964. Marilyn Monroe-Frank Sinatra-Whitman became Debbie Reynolds-Tony Curtis-Boone. Whitman’s career quickly dissipated into z-schlock and TV guest over the next 40 (quiet) years.
- Charlton Heston, Planet of the Apes, 1967.
- Doug McClure, The Land That Time Forgot, 1974. The US co-producers, AIP refused finance a film with Whitman. So Amicus, the UK end, deep-sixed him from Movie That You Should Forget... Or, The Effects That Time Has Not Been Kind To...
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Alex Cord, Inn of the Damned, 1974. Family issues caused Whitman to pass on being Sheriff Kincaid, investigating why the guests at a local hotel checked in, but never checked out. Writer-producer-director Terry Bourke called his Australian film: Hitchcock on horseback.
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