James H. White

Biography

James Henry White was a Canadian film pioneer, who worked as a director, producer, and cinematographer. He also appeared as an actor in several films. He was employed by the Edison Manufacturing Company, and directed over 500 short films, both fictional and documentary.

Birthday

Mar 1, 1872

Place of birth

Nova Scotia, Canada

Deathday

Jan 1, 1944

Credited in

As cast

Life of an American Fireman
As The Fire Chief
Jack and the Beanstalk
As Farmer

As crew

Giant Coal Dumper
Role: Director
Feeding the Doves
Role: Director
Seminary Girls
Role: Director
Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory
Role: Director
Ella Lola, a la Trilby
Role: Director
Turkish Dance, Ella Lola
No picture available
Role: Director
The Astor Tramp
Role: Director
Feeding Sea Gulls
No picture available
Role: Director
A Morning Bath
Role: Director
Arrest in Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal.
No picture available
Role: Director
Black Diamond Express
No picture available
Role: Director
Herald Square
Role: Director
Watermelon Contest
No picture available
Role: Director
Shooting the Chutes
Role: Director
Mess Call
Role: Director
Edison Drawn by 'World' Artist
Role: Director
Down the Old Potomac
Role: Director
Lone Fisherman
Role: Director
Police Patrol Wagon
Role: Director
Buffalo Stockyards
Role: Director
Loading baggage for Klondike, no. 6
Role: Director
Horses loading for Klondike, no. 9
Role: Director
First Avenue, Seattle, Washington, No. 8
No picture available
Role: Director
S.S. 'Queen' Leaving Dock
Role: Director
S.S. 'Coptic' at Dock
Role: Director
Fishing Smacks
Role: Director
Fisherman's Wharf
Role: Director
S.S. 'Williamette' Leaving for Klondike
Role: Director
Stanford University, California
Role: Director
Launch of Life Boat
Role: Director
S.S. 'Coptic' Sailing Away
No picture available
Role: Director
S.S. 'Coptic' in the Harbor
Role: Director
Buffalo Fire Department in Action
Role: Director
Corner Madison and State Streets, Chicago
Role: Director
Hotel Del Monte
Role: Director
Lurline Baths
Role: Director
Southern Pacific Overland Mail
Role: Director
Hotel Vendome, San Jose, Cal.
Role: Director
Sutro Baths, No. 2
No picture available
Role: Director
Sutro Baths, No. 1
Role: Director
Cattle Driven to Slaughter
No picture available
Role: Director
Buffalo Police on Parade
Role: Director
Armour's Electric Trolley
Role: Director
Falls of Minnehaha
Role: Director
Sheep Run, Chicago Stockyards
Role: Director
Philadelphia Express, Jersey Central Railway
Role: Director
Capsize of Lifeboat
Role: Director
Cupid and Psyche
No picture available
Role: Director
Leander Sisters
Role: Director
Free-for-All race at Charter Oak Park
Role: Director
Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, Cal.
No picture available
Role: Director
Surf at Monterey
Role: Director
Fast mail, Northern Pacific Railroad
Role: Director
Wash Day in Mexico
Role: Director
Mount Taw R.R., No. 3
No picture available
Role: Director
Mount Tamalpais R.R., No. 1
No picture available
Role: Director
Union Iron Works
No picture available
Role: Director
Statue of Liberty
No picture available
Role: Director
Troops Embarking at San Francisco
No picture available
Role: Director
Cuban Ambush
No picture available
Role: Director
Close View of the 'Brooklyn,' Naval Parade
Role: Director
Parade of Chinese
Role: Director
South Spring Street, Los Angeles, Cal.
No picture available
Role: Director
Native Daughters
No picture available
Role: Director
Procession of Floats
No picture available
Role: Director
After Launching
Role: Director
Launch of Japanese Man-of-War 'Chitosa'
No picture available
Role: Director
Launching, No. 2
No picture available
Role: Director
Freight Train
No picture available
Role: Director
Sunset Limited, Southern Pacific Ry.
No picture available
Role: Director
Reviewing the 'Texas' at Grant's Tomb
No picture available
Role: Director
The Fleet Steaming Up North River
No picture available
Role: Director
Observation Train Following Parade
No picture available
Role: Director
Going Through the Tunnel
Role: Director
Mount Tamalpais R.R., No. 2
No picture available
Role: Director
Love and War
Role: Director
Admiral Dewey Taking Leave of Washington Committee on the U.S. Cruiser 'Olympia'
Role: Director
Fun in Camp
No picture available
Role: Director
U.S. Cruiser 'Olympia' Leading Naval Parade
No picture available
Role: Director
Trick Bears
No picture available
Role: Director
Tourists Going Round Yellowstone Park
Role: Director
Admiral Dewey Receiving the Washington and New York Committees
Role: Director
104th Street Curve, New York, Elevated Railway
Role: Director
Three Acrobats
Role: Director
Admiral Dewey Leading Land Parade
No picture available
Role: Director
Lower Falls, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park
Role: Director
Pilot Boats in New York Harbor
No picture available
Role: Director
Admiral Dewey Landing at Gibraltar
Role: Director
Capture of Trenches at Candaba
Role: Director
Coaches Arriving at Mammoth Hot Springs
Role: Director
Morning Colors on U.S. Cruiser 'Raleigh'
No picture available
Role: Director
2nd Special Service Battalion, Canadian Infantry, Parade and Embarkation
Role: Director
U.S. Cruiser 'Raleigh'
Role: Director
U.S. Infantry Supported by Rough Riders at El Caney
No picture available
Role: Director
Advance of Kansas Volunteers at Caloocan
Role: Director
Filipinos Retreat from Trenches
Role: Director
Skirmish of Rough Riders
Role: Director
Black Diamond Express, No. 1
Role: Director
Admiral Dewey Leading Land Parade, No. 2
Role: Director
Tenderloin at Night
No picture available
Role: Director
American Falls from Above, American Side
Role: Director
Mounted Police Charge
Role: Director
The Burning Stable
Role: Director
The Morning Alarm
Role: Director
Troop Ships for the Philippines
Role: Director
The First Sleigh-Ride
Role: Director
Return of Lifeboat
Role: Director
Fifth Avenue, New York
Role: Director
Red Cross Ambulance on Battlefield
No picture available
Role: Director
Breaking of the Crowd at Military Review at Longchamps
No picture available
Role: Director
Panorama of the Moving Boardwalk
Role: Director
Charge of Boer Cavalry
No picture available
Role: Director
Panoramic View of the Champs Elysees
Role: Director
Champs Elysees
Role: Director
Naval Sham Battle at Newport
No picture available
Role: Director
Panorama of Eiffel Tower
Role: Director
Scene in the Swiss Village at Paris Exposition
Role: Director
Boers Bringing in British Prisoners
No picture available
Role: Director
Torpedo Boat 'Morris' Running
No picture available
Role: Director
Palace of Electricity
No picture available
Role: Director
Panoramic View of Newport
Role: Director
Gun Drill by Naval Cadets at Newport Training School
No picture available
Role: Director
Esplanade des Invalides
No picture available
Role: Director
Swiss Village, No. 2
Role: Director
Panorama of Place de l'Opéra
Role: Director
Panoramic View of the Place de la Concorde
Role: Director
Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace
Role: Director
Exploding a Whitehead Torpedo
Role: Director
Panorama of Gorge Railway
No picture available
Role: Director
Naval Apprentices at Sail Drill on Historic Ship 'Constellation'
No picture available
Role: Director
Battle of Mafeking
Role: Director
Gymnasium Exercises and Drill at Newport Training School
No picture available
Role: Director
Discharging a Whitehead Torpedo
No picture available
Role: Director
English Lancers Charging
No picture available
Role: Director
Why Jones Discharged His Clerks
Role: Director
Champs de Mars
Role: Director
Why Mrs. Jones Got a Divorce
No picture available
Role: Director
Scene from the Elevator Ascending Eiffel Tower
No picture available
Role: Director
Panorama of the Paris Exposition, from the Seine
Role: Director
Grandma and the Bad Boys
Role: Director
President McKinley Reviewing the Troops at the Pan-American Exposition
Role: Director
Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession
Role: Director
A Wringing Good Joke
Role: Director
Fatima's Coochee-Coochee Dance
Role: Director
Capture of Boer Battery by British
Role: Director
Watermelon Contest
Role: Director
New Black Diamond Express
Role: Director
A Storm at Sea
Role: Director
The Bad Boy and the Gardener
Role: Director
Passaic Falls, New Jersey
Role: Director
Calf Branding
No picture available
Role: Director
Cattle Leaving the Corral
No picture available
Role: Director
S.S. 'Queen' Loading
Role: Director
Indian Day School
Role: Director
Panoramic View Near Mt. Golden on the Canadian Pacific R. R.
No picture available
Role: Director
Kanakas Diving for Money (Honolulu), No. 2
No picture available
Role: Director
Dewey Arch: Troops Passing Under Arch
No picture available
Role: Director
The Diving Horse
Role: Director
Japanese Sampans
No picture available
Role: Director
Chicken Thieves
No picture available
Role: Director
Sunday Morning in Mexico
No picture available
Role: Director
New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, No. 1
Role: Director
New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, No. 2
No picture available
Role: Director
Interrupted Lovers
Role: Producer
Interrupted Lovers
Role: Director
Shooting Captured Insurgents
Role: Director
Arabian Gun Twirler
Role: Producer
Poker at Dawson City
Role: Director
Colonel Funston Swimming the Bagbag River
No picture available
Role: Director
Street Scene, San Diego
No picture available
Role: Director
Eagle Dance, Pueblo Indians
Role: Director
McKinley and Hobart Parade at Canton, O.
No picture available
Role: Director
Frankenstein
Role: Director of Photography
Bull Fight, no. 3
No picture available
Role: Director
Ostriches Running, No. 1
No picture available
Role: Director
Lone Fisherman
Role: Producer
Life of an American Fireman
Role: Assistant Director
Strange Adventure of New York Drummer
Role: Director
Serpentine Dance - Annabelle
Role: Director
His Mother's Thanksgiving
Role: Director
The Police Force of New York City
Role: Director
Shoot the Chutes Series
No picture available
Role: Director
Arabian Gun Twirler
Role: Director
Boxing for Points
No picture available
Role: Director
A Morning Alarm
Role: Director
Love in a Hammock
No picture available
Role: Director
Going to the Fire
Role: Director
Las Viga Canal, Mexico City
No picture available
Role: Director
The Sea Lions' Home
Role: Director
S.S. "Coptic" Lying To
No picture available
Role: Director
Dogs Playing in the Surf
No picture available
Role: Director
Train Hour in Durango, Mexico
No picture available
Role: Director
Exploding a Whitehead Torpedo
Role: Producer
Cripple Creek Bar-Room Scene
Role: Director
Irish Way of Discussing Politics
No picture available
Role: Director
Launch of Surf Boat
Role: Producer
Battery K Siege Guns
No picture available
Role: Director
S.S. "Coptic" Running Against the Storm
Role: Producer
Panorama of the Moving Boardwalk
Role: Producer
Husking Bee
No picture available
Role: Director
Boat Wagon and Beach Cart
Role: Director
Mexican Rurales Charge
No picture available
Role: Director
Dewey Parade, 10th Pennsylvania Volunteers
No picture available
Role: Director
Farmer Kissing the Lean Girl
No picture available
Role: Director
The Bad Boy and the Gardener
Role: Producer
Black Diamond Express
No picture available
Role: Director of Photography
Feeding the Doves
Role: Director of Photography
Lone Fisherman
Role: Director of Photography
Butterfly Dances
No picture available
Role: Director
U.S. Troops and Red Cross in the Trenches Before Caloocan
Role: Director
Victorious Squadron Firing Salute
No picture available
Role: Director
Scene on Surf Ave., Coney Island
No picture available
Role: Director
Sea Beach Scene
Role: Director
Lassoing a Steer
No picture available
Role: Director
California Limited, A.T. & S.F.R.R.
No picture available
Role: Director
Fighting the Fire
No picture available
Role: Director
Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison
Role: Production Assistant
Little Egypt
Role: Director
S.S. "Coptic" Running Against the Storm
Role: Director
Parade of Marines, U.S. Cruiser, 'Brooklyn'
Role: Director
Casey at the Bat
Role: Director
Overland Express Arriving at Helena, Mont.
Role: Producer
Canton River Scene
No picture available
Role: Director
Hong Kong Wharf Scene
No picture available
Role: Director
Landing Wharf at Canton
No picture available
Role: Director
Shanghai Street Scene No. 2
Role: Director
Tourists Starting for Canton
No picture available
Role: Director
Troops at Evacuation of Havana
No picture available
Role: Director
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Role: Director
Paris exposition films
Role: Director
Paris exposition films
Role: Camera Operator
Paris exposition films
Role: Producer
East Side Drive, No. 1
No picture available
Role: Director
Starting for the Fire
No picture available
Role: Director
American Falls, from Incline R.R.
No picture available
Role: Director
Cock Fight
Role: Director
Rescue - Resuscitation
No picture available
Role: Director
Bicycle Trick Riding, No. 2
Role: Director
Bicycle Trick Riding, No. 2
Role: Producer
Wand Dance, Pueblo Indians
No picture available
Role: Director
Rout of the Filipinos
No picture available
Role: Director