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Jon Whiteley, who received an honorary juvenile Oscar for his performance in the 1953 British drama The Kidnappers, has died. He was 75.

His death was announced by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, where he served as a teacher and art historian for 38 years.

Whiteley was 8 when he and fellow Scotlander Vincent Winter starred as boys being raised by their grandparents (Duncan Macrae and Jean Anderson) in 1900s Nova Scotia following their father's death. The children then find an abandoned baby and decide to raise her on their own. (The film was known as The Little Kidnappers ...

Jon Whiteley, who received an honorary juvenile Oscar for his performance in the 1953 British drama The Kidnappers, has died. He was 75.

His death was announced by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, where he served as a teacher and art historian for 38 years.

Whiteley was 8 when he and fellow Scotlander Vincent Winter starred as boys being raised by their grandparents (Duncan Macrae and Jean Anderson) in 1900s Nova Scotia following their father's death. The children then find an abandoned baby and decide to raise her on their own. (The film was known as The Little Kidnappers ...

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