Overview
- Manager Brian Liebman announced the death on Instagram and told Deadline that Whitlock died peacefully.
- Whitlock was widely recognized for portraying Senator Clay Davis in 25 episodes of HBO’s The Wire.
- He amassed more than 125 film and TV credits and worked repeatedly with Spike Lee on titles including 25th Hour, BlacKkKlansman and Da 5 Bloods.
- Recent credits included Cocaine Bear and the Netflix series The Residence, and an upcoming voice role in Pixar/Disney’s Hoppers was reported.
- Spike Lee called it “a great, great, great loss” and said he would miss Whitlock for the rest of his life, as no further details on the cause have been released.