Acting credits
10
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Jim Whittaker
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 10Series: 0
TMDB ID: 1641750
IMDb ID: nm5135491
Known for: Acting
Born: February 10, 1929
Died: April 7, 2026
Age: 97
Place of birth: Seattle, WA, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1965 - 2018
Years active: 54
Wikidata: Q1383689
Also known as
James Warren Whittaker • James Whittaker
Biography
James Warren Whittaker was an American climber and mountain guide. On May 1, 1963, he became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest as a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, alongside the Sherpa Nawang Gombu, a nephew of Tenzing Norgay. They ran out of oxygen, but managed to reach the summit.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Jim Whittaker.
as Self
Return to Mount Kennedy
2018 • Movie
as Self
Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey
2017 • Movie
as Self
High and Hallowed: Everest 1963
2013 • Movie
as Self
High Tension
2013 • Movie
as self
Nawang Gombu - Heart of a Tiger
2013 • Movie
as Self
Sherpa: The Proving Grounds
2002 • Movie
as related character
Everest - Blood, Sweat and Tears
1993 • Movie
as Narrator
This Is Self Arrest
1967 • Movie
as Self
Americans on Everest
1965 • Movie
as Self
Pilgrimage to a Mountain Peak
1965 • Movie