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Jon James Lamont Whiteley (19 February 1945 – 16 May 2020) Jon Whiteley, Fifties child star who afterwards became an eminent curator at the Ashmolean Museum – obituary was a Scottish child film actor and in adult life a distinguished art historian.
Whiteley was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, whereafter he became a respected art historian at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He wrote his doctorate on the revival in painting of themes inspired by antiquity in mid-nineteenth-century France. He catalogued all the French Drawings in the Ashmolean, and authored and co-authored several books on artists including Ingres, Puvis de Chavannes and Claude Lorrain. He published a book on the Ashmolean's Stringed Instruments in 2009, and was working on a catalogue of the later French paintings in the Museum.
His wife was art historian Linda Whiteley; the couple had two children. He was made a chevalier (knight) of the French Order of Arts and Letters in May 2009. The cause of his death was Glioblastoma (also known as glioblastoma multiforme or GBM). This is the most aggressive type of cancerous brain tumour in adults. The date or location of his funeral is not known. He is buried in Botley cemetery, Oxford.
| 1952 | Hunted | Robbie | aka The Stranger in Between (USA) |
| 1953 | The Kidnappers (US: The Little Kidnappers) | Harry | Academy Juvenile Award |
| 1955 | Moonfleet | John Mohune | |
| 1956 | The Spanish Gardener | Nicholas Brande | |
| The Weapon | Erik Jenner | ||
| 1957 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Davey | Episode - The Christmas Goose |
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