J. Fisher White


Joseph John Fisher White 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 was educated at Monkton Combe School and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1887. He became a solicitor's clerk.
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 Chairman of the Actors' Association. He was the uncle of the actor Wilfrid Hyde-White, and was survived by a son, Hilary Fisher White and a daughter, Thalia Fisher White, from his marriage to Edith Rhoda Blackwood.

Selected filmography

Damaged Goods Diana of the Crossways A Tale of Two Cities Owd Bob One Colombo Night The Island of Despair The Only Way Balaclava The City of Youth The Last Post Lily of Killarney Loose Ends Kissing Cup's Race Madame Guillotine A Man of Mayfair The Good Companions The Great Defender What Happened Then? The Old Curiosity Shop Turn of the Tide City of Beautiful Nonsense Hearts of Humanity Little Miss Somebody Dreaming Lips The Man Who Made Diamonds Under the Red Robe