Jon Whiteley

Jon Whiteley ( born February 19, 1945 in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland) is a Scottish art historian and former child actor.

Life

Jon Whiteley was born the son of a primary school principal in Monymusk. Early on, he was at the school theater on stage, and made ​​her so aware of, among others, Julian Wintle 1951, the film producer of a child was a witness.

Although Whiteley's parents were strict, and initially wanted to see her son only once as an actor before the camera, they allowed the boy to participate in another film productions. So it was that Whiteley was allowed in 1953 are vanquished hatred front of the camera, and was founded in 1955 with the Juvenile Award, an award that is equivalent to the Oscar Award. Whiteley stood until 1957 in six films in front of the camera, left acting and then concentrated on his education.

He attended Oxford University, where he studied art history and in 1972 received his doctorate with a thesis " The Revival in Painting of Themes Inspired by Antiquity in Mid- Nineteenth Century France". He worked as a curator at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and is a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.

Filmography

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