Richard Whorf

Richard Whorf (June 4, 1906 – December 14, 1966) was an American actor, author, director, and designer.

Born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, Whorf began his acting career on the Boston stage as a teenager then moving to Broadway when he was 21. Early on, he was in a production of "Taming of the Shrew" at the Globe Theatre in New York City. He moved to Hollywood and became a contract player in movies of the 1930s and 1940s before becoming a director in 1944.

Whorf appeared in "Christmas Holiday" (1944), "Blues in the Night" (1941), "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), and "Keeper of the Flame" (1942). He directed a number of television programs in the 1950s and 1960s, the best known being the CBS hit comedy "The Beverly Hillbillies".

Whorf directed a 1961 comedy stage play "Julia, Jake and Uncle Joe", the Broadway show closed after only one performance at the Booth Theatre. [ [http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=2288 Internet Broadway Database listing] ]

Whorf's hobby was painting -- he sold his first painting at age 15 for US$100. Many of his small town landscape paintings reflected his American worldview and seemed to be inspired by painters like Grant Wood and Norman Rockwell. In the 17 March 1963 "TV Channels" syndicated rotogravure newspaper magazine, his painting career was profiled and his studio photographed. For the article, he told a reporter, "Who says that a man has to do one thing?"

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