Brian White (cartoonist)
Brian "H.B." White (born 1902; died 1984) was a British cartoonist, creating 'The Nipper' for the Daily Mail between 1933 and 1947. Both "Keyhole Kate" and "Double Trouble" ran in London's Evening Standard.
Early in his career he forged links with Sid Griffiths, who had developed Jerry the Tyke and brought in White who had been one of the team of animators on the 1924 film of George E. Studdy's character Bonzo the dog.[1][2] They latterly formed the company Griffiths and White in 1929, working from an office in the Charing Cross Road, London, initially producing animated advertisements for Superads where Carl Giles was first employed. Griffiths and White continued throughout the 1930s, eventually working at Anson Dyer's Anglia Films Stroud-based studio which was later taken over by Halas & Batchelor for the development of Animal Farm.
In collaboration with cousin Harold White, B&H Publications produced George Bernard Shaw Through The Camera in 1948.
Brian White worked for a year in 1952/3 on the first feature cartoon (75 minutes) Animal Farm, based on George Orwell's novel of the same name. An associate here was Sid Griffiths, with whom he had first collaborated 30 years earlier.
He is the grandfather of British sculptor Jon Edgar.[3] White died at Rustington, West Sussex in 1984.
Films
[edit]1925 Jerry the Troublesome Tyke (short) - animator[4]
1925 The Joy Provider (short) - animator
1925 In and Out of Wembley (short) - animator
1926 A Flash Affair (short) - animator
1926 All Up a Tree (short) - animator
1926 A Sticky Business (short) - animator
1926 Going West (short) - animator
1926 Golf (short) - animator
1926 He Gets Fired (short) - animator
1926 We Nearly Lose Him (short) - animator
1925 Honesty Is the Best Policy (short) - animator
1930 Tropical Breezes - Director, with Sid Griffiths and A. Goodman[5]
1933 Colonel Capers - animator
1934 Treasure Island - Director, writer and animator (the first part of the aborted Barnacle Bill Series)[6]
Cartoon characters
[edit]The Nipper 1933-1947 Daily Mail
Deed-a-day Danny Knockout (from Hugh McNeill) 1942
Little Tough Guy Knockout (Amalgamated/Fleetway comic)
Keyhole Kate Sparky (1965–74); London Evening Standard
Double Trouble London Evening Standard
Plum Duffy; The Topper comic
Archival material with public access
[edit]Pathefilms web archive of Jerry the Tyke http://www.britishpathe.com/programmes/jerry-the-troublesome-tyke
British Cartoon Archive, Templeman Library, University of Kent, UK http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/brianwhite/biography
Animal Farm (1955) film (DVD) EAN 5050582008982
Daily Mail Nipper Annual 1940 - reprinted White Crescent Press (1995) ISBN 0 900804 31 9
References
[edit]- ^ "Bonzo (New Era Films, LTD.)". Archived from the original on 7 January 2014.
- ^ Gifford, Denis British Animated Films 1895-1985 A Filmography
- ^ The Sculpture Series Heads: Terracotta Portraits of Contributors to British Sculpture (p38-39) The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking/Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2013 ISBN 978 0 9558675 1 4
- ^ "Brian White". IMDb.
- ^ "Tropical Breezes (Comedy Cartoon Sound Films.)". Archived from the original on 17 January 2013.
- ^ Gifford, Denis British Animated Films 1895-1985 A Filmography
External links
[edit]- British Cartoonists Album (1962) Anthony Gibbs & Phillips, Ltd. page 110 Double Trouble strip #2063 [1]
- original cartoon strips from independent art gallery
- Brian White Archive - Cartoons and Animation
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