J. Fisher White

Joseph John Fisher White (1 May 1865 – 14 January 1945) was a British stage and film actor. 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 Oxford University.

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 Last Post (1929)
• Lily of Killarney (1929)
• Madame Guillotine (1931)
• The Good Companions (1933)
• The Great Defender (1934)
• The Old Curiosity Shop (1934)
• Turn of the Tide (1935)
• City of Beautiful Nonsense (1935)
• Hearts of Humanity (1936)
• Little Miss Somebody (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

External links

• J. Fisher White at the Internet Movie Database