Jon Whiteley

Amazingly talented child star Jon Whiteley was born on February 19, 1945 in Monymusk, Scotland, and put together an enviable, albeit brief, career in 1950s film drama. This precocious talent started things off winningly by earning first prize for verse-speaking at the Aberdeen Music Festival when he was only 6. This led to his indoctrination into films, making a highly auspicious debut but a year later with the suspenser Hunted (1952), co-starring as a young runaway abducted and subsequently befriended by fugitive Dirk Bogarde.