Jesse White Overview:

Actor, Jesse White, was born Jesse Marc Weidenfeld on Jan 3, 1917 in Buffalo, NY. White died at the age of 80 on Jan 9, 1997 in Los Angeles, CA .

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Emory Wages: Well, I'll be a middle-aged mongoloid from Memphis.


Georgie Markham: Don't worry, I'll bring him back dead or alive. Either way, he ought to look great.


Wilson: [reading from an encyclopedia] "P O O K A - Pooka - from old Celtic mythology - a fairy spirit in animal form - always very large. The pooka appears here and there - now and then - to this one and that one - a benign but mischievous creature - very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and how are you, Mr. Wilson?" "How are you, Mr. Wilson?" Who in the encyclopedia wants to know?


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Jesse White Facts
Known for playing the sanitarium orderly Wilson in the story "Harvey" about the invisible rabbit on the stage in New York, in the movie with James Stewart and in the 1972 television production, also with Stewart.

Jesse played the ever-idle Maytag repairman from 1968 until 1989, when he went on to become a consultant for the Maytag Company.

His widow Celia (Simmy) Cohn White died August 5, 2003.

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