HOLLYWOOD star Stuart Whitman has died aged 92 following a battle with skin cancer. The actor was a household name in the 60s and 70s thanks credits that included The Mark (1961), for which he was nominated for best actor at the Academy Awards, the Western film The Comancheros (1961), and the aviation comedy Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965) On television, Whitman, who was born in San Francisco, stood out in the Highway Patrol (1955–1957), Cimarron Strip (1967), and Superboy (1988–1992).
Whitman was raised in New York until the age of twelve when his family relocated in Los Angeles. The budding star was honorably discharged from the United States Army in the Corps of Engineers in 1948.
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