Chrissie White

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. White 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. 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. White died from a heart attack in Liss, Hampshire aged 94 in 1989.

• Name — Chrissie White • Born — 23 May 1895 • Birthplace — London, England • Died — 18 August 1989 • Place of death — Liss, Hampshire, England • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1908–1933 • Children — 2

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1913 — The Vicar of Wakefield — Sophia Primrose • 1915 — The Man Who Stayed at Home — Daphne Kidlington • The Nightbirds of London • Sweet Lavender — Lavender • Her Boy — Isabelle • 1916 — A Bunch of Violets — Violet Marchant • Molly Bawn — Lady Cecil Stafford • The White Boys • Sowing the Wind — Maude Fretwell • 1917 — The Failure — Margaret Gilder • Her Marriage Lines — Jean Neville • The Man Behind 'The Times — Jet Overbury • A Grain of Sand — Doris Kestevan — Short • 1918 — The Poet's Windfall — The Girl — Short • 1919 — Possession — Valerie Sarton • City of Beautiful Nonsense — Jean Dealtry • The Kinsman — Pamela Bois • Broken in the Wars — Mrs. Joe — Short • 1920 — The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss — Frances Clayton — Lost • John Forrest Finds Himself — Joan Grey • 1921 — Wild Heather — Wild Heather Boyd • Tit for Tat — Peggy Smith • The Bargain — Mary • The Lunatic at Large — Lady Irene • 1922 — Simple Simon — Rosemary Ruth • 1923 — Boden's Boy — Barbara Pligrim • The Naked Man — Ninette Monday • 1924 — The World of Wonderful Reality — Jean Dealtry — Lost • Lily of the Alley — Lily — Lost • 1930 — Call of the Sea — Iris Tares • 1933 — General John Regan — Moya Kent — Final film