Chrissie White

For Emmerdale character, see Chrissie White (Emmerdale).

Chrissie White
Born	(1895-05-23)23 May 1895 London, England
Died	18 August 1989(1989-08-18) (aged 94) Hollywood, California, United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1908–1933
Spouse	Henry Edwards

Chrissie White (23 May 1895 – 18 August 1989) was a British film actress of the silent era. She appeared in over 180 films between 1908 and 1933. White was married to actor and film director Henry Edwards, and in the 1920s the two were regarded as one of Britain's most famous and newsworthy celebrity couples. The couple had two children, a son who died when he was a baby, and a daughter. She starred in the 1920 film The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss, which as of August 2010 is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.

Selected filmography

• The Vicar of Wakefield (1913)
• The Man Who Stayed at Home (1915)
• The Nightbirds of London (1915)
• Sweet Lavender (1915)
• Her Boy (1915)
• A Bunch of Violets (1916)
• Molly Bawn (1916)
• The White Boys (1916)
• Sowing the Wind (1916)
• The Failure (1917)
• Her Marriage Lines (1917)
• The Man Behind 'The Times' (1917)
• The Poet's Windfall (1918)
• Possession (1919)
• City of Beautiful Nonsense (1919)
• The Kinsman (1919)
• Broken in the Wars (1919)
• The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss (1920)
• John Forrest Finds Himself (1920)
• Wild Heather (1921)
• Tit for Tat (1921)
• The Bargain (1921)
• The Lunatic at Large (1921)
• Simple Simon (1922)
• Boden's Boy (1923)
• The Naked Man (1923)
• The World of Wonderful Reality (1924)
• Lily of the Alley (1924)
• Call of the Sea (1930)
• General John Regan (1933)

External links

• Chrissie White at IMDb
• Chrissie White at Find a Grave