James Warren

James Warren (February 24, 1913 – March 28, 2001) was an American film actor and artist. After a film career in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s, mainly in Westerns, he moved to Hawaii and painted local subjects.

Early life Born James Pringle Wittlig in Marietta, Ohio, he was the son of Walter Wittlig, a watchmaker, and Florence Ione Pringle. He had two brothers, Laurence and David. The Wittligs had emigrated from Langenthal, Switzerland in the 1860s.

However, James did not follow in the family watchmaking tradition. His first love was art, which took him to the Pratt Art Institute of New York where he became a watercolorist and an illustrator for various magazines. Warren specialized in whimsical interpretations of the Hawaiian tutus (grandmothers) as well as paintings of Maui onions. Warren was a well-respected member of the Lahaina Art Society. He was usually a willing and gracious participant in all art shows. He continued his one-man shows well into his later life, only stopping in his seventies.

Warren died in 2001, aged 88, in Kihei, Hawaii, leaving four children and several grandchildren.

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