J. Fisher White
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J. Fisher White | |
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| Born | 1 May 1865 |
| Died | 14 January 1945 (age 79) |
| Occupation | Film actor Stage actor |
| Years active | 1905–1940 (film) |
Joseph John Fisher White (1 May 1865 – 14 January 1945) was a British stage and film actor.[1][2] The eldest of four sons of Rev. John White, of Ampfield, of that family formerly of Hursley, by his wife Martha, daughter of Rev. John Fisher, he took a B.A. from the University of Oxford.
White developed a reputation for playing character roles in the theatre and began to appear in a significant number of British films from the early 1920s onwards. He was the uncle of the actor Wilfrid Hyde-White, and was survived by a son, Hilary Fisher White (b. 1902) and a daughter, Thalia Fisher White (b. 1906), from his marriage to Edith Rhoda Blackwood.
Selected filmography[]
- Damaged Goods (1919)
- Diana of the Crossways (1922)
- A Tale of Two Cities (1922)
- Owd Bob (1924)
- One Colombo Night (1926)
- The Island of Despair (1926)
- The Only Way (1927)
- Balaclava (1928)
- The City of Youth (1928)
- The Last Post (1929)
- Lily of Killarney (1929)
- Loose Ends (1930)
- Kissing Cup's Race (1930)
- Madame Guillotine (1931)
- A Man of Mayfair (1931)
- The Good Companions (1933)
- The Great Defender (1934)
- What Happened Then? (1934)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (1934)
- Turn of the Tide (1935)
- City of Beautiful Nonsense (1935)
- Hearts of Humanity (1936)
- (1937)
- Dreaming Lips (1937)
- The Man Who Made Diamonds (1937)
- Under the Red Robe (1937)
- Pastor Hall (1940)
Bibliography[]
- Kruger, Loren. The National Stage: Theatre and Cultural Legitimation in England, France, and America. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
- Richards, Jeffrey (ed.). The Unknown 1930s: An Alternative History of the British Cinema, 1929-1939. I.B Tauris, 2001.
- Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles. Armorial families: a directory of gentlemen of coat armour (seventh edition), vol. 2. Hurst and Blackett, 1929
References[]
- ^ "J. Fisher White".
- ^ "J Fisher White - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
External links[]
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