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. 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. 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

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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

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for the development of

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. 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) ''

'', 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

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. White died at

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in 1984.

Films

1925 Jerry the Troublesome Tyke (short) - animator 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 1933 Colonel Capers - animator 1934 Treasure Island - Director, writer and animator (the first part of the aborted Barnacle Bill Series)Gifford, Denis British Animated Films 1895-1985 A Filmography

Cartoon characters

''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

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)

References

External links

* British Cartoonists Album (1962) Anthony Gibbs & Phillips, Ltd. page 110 Double Trouble strip #206

original cartoon strips from independent art gallery

Brian White Archive - Cartoons and Animation
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