Chrissie White

Chrissie White (23 May 1895 – 18 August 1989) was a British film actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 180 films between 1908 and 1933.

The peak of her popularity came with Alma Taylor in the "Tilly the Tomboy" series between 1910-1915. White married actor and film director Henry Edwards in 1922, and in the 1920s the two were regarded as one of Britain's most newsworthy celebrity couples. Edwards directed more than 20 of his wife's films. White married Edwards in 1924, the couple had two children, a son and a daughter, actress Henryetta Edwards.

After 1924, she was absent from the screen until 1930, when she returned to make two talking pictures, Call of the Sea (1930) and General John Regan (1933), both directed by Edwards, after the latter film's release she retired from films.

Following the death of her husband in 1952, she withdrew from publicity. White died from a heart attack in Liss, Hampshire aged 94 in 1989.

Selected filmography