James Whitmore, charactor actor, 87

I remember his commercials for miracle gro, I liked them and also thought he was a good actor.

James Whitmore had that rare gift of subsuming himself into his roles, so that when you saw him work (despite his distinctive appearance and style) you quickly forgot you were watching an actor reading lines from a script, and believed you had just stumbled upon some guy living out his life. He was utterly, completely believable in every role I saw him play. That is a difficult feat to pull off, and he did it with effortless grace.

His one-man performance, "Give 'Em Hell, Harry" is well worth the effort to track down.(I never saw "Bully!" or "Will Rogers Tonight," but I have no doubt they are equally superb.

The entertainment industry has suffered a genuine loss.

Great actor. He was wonderful in the film version of "Black Like Me".

I first saw James Whitmore as Andrew Carnes, Ado Annie's pa, in "Oklahoma". I saw "Oklahoma" through the windshield of our 1951 Chevrolet at the local drive-in theater along with my parents and three siblings. I'll never forget watching James Whitmore peering out from under those bushy eyebrows and pointing his shotgun at Ali Hakim (Eddie Albert)and convincing Ali that he should marry Ado Annie...that was more than fifty years ago. What great memories.