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.

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J. Fisher White
Born	1 May 1865 Bristol United Kingdom
Died	14 January 1945 (age 79) London United Kingdom
Occupation	Film actor Stage actor
Years active	1905–1940 (film)

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)
• 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

References

External links

• J. Fisher White at IMDb

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