James White

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(1957-2006). Actor.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Performed in Black Comedy, Charley's Aunt (1973), Best of Birds and Beasts, Hay Fever, Elizabeth I, Enemy!, Luv and The Great Waltz.

He starred in Feydeau’s farce A Flea in Her Ear at the Alexander Theatre in 1967; in the JODS production of South Pacific which was staged at the Civic Theatre by Brickhill-Burke in 1969; together with Brian Brooke he appeared in Kauffman and Hart’s You Can't Take it With You in 1972; in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (as "Paris") for PACT in 1974; in Murray Schisgal’s Broadway comedy Luv at the Market Theatre in 1977; in Geoffrey Sutherland’s production of Joan Littlewood’s Oh What a Lovely War! for PACT in 1980.

James also starred in Leslie Darbon’s Murder by Proxy at the Intimate Theatre in 1981; the PACT production of The State Theatre Overflow Show (1981); PACT’s production of The Rivals at the State Theatre in March 1983 and The Little Foxes (PACT 1989).

He played in the 1964 film Seven Against the Sun.

Sources

SACD 1973; 1974; 1975/76; 1977/78.

Tucker, 1997.

Martin, Bob, 2008.

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