Best known in New Zealand for playing the Senile Grandfather Ted West
on Outrageous Fortune. This role won him a best supporting actor award
at the Air NZ Screen Awards in 2007. He also appeared in Vigil and many
other New Zealand and Australian Productions. He died of Cancer on
Febuary 13th 2011
Other than his role in "Outrageous Fortune", Whitten was best known in New Zealand for his appearance as one of two "southern men" in a long-running series of television and billboard advertisements for Speight's Breweries.