Al White Was Also a Very Serious Theater Actor
White was, as you’ve probably gathered, very committed to his craft. He was a member of San Francisco’s prestigious American Conservatory Theater company for several years, appearing in more than 17 plays, from Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams, who was the playwright in residence at the time. He also traveled to the Soviet Union with the group in 1975 as part of the U.S.’s bicentennial cultural exchange program.
His roles after Airplane included performing in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean. (Barbara Billingsley came to see him perform, and sent him a card praising his performance.)
Norman Alexander Gibbs, meanwhile, has TV credits including The Bionic Woman, Colombo, Roots: The Next Generations and Hill Street Blues, and film credits including Runaway Train and Blue Thunder.
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