Arthur White
ActingBiography
Arthur B. White is an English stage and screen actor, best known for his occasional role as the collator (police archivist) Ernie Trigg in the crime drama A Touch of Frost, alongside his real-life younger brother David Jason. His parents were Arthur R White and Welsh-born Olwen Jones. He also appeared briefly along with his brother in two episodes of The Darling Buds of May. In 1978, White appeared as part of an underworld gang, playing the role of Freddy in an episode of the 1970s British police drama The Professionals, the episode entitled When the Heat Cools Off. In 2007, White played Albert Fogarty in the Heartbeat episode "The Dreams That You Dream". In 2008, he worked with Jason again on the comic fantasy The Colour of Magic, where he played a character called "Rerpf". In 2010, he featured in 13 Hours That Saved Britain, talking about his experiences of living during World War Two and living in London during the Blitz. White has also made appearances in television series such as Crossroads, The Professionals, London's Burning, As Time Goes By, Wycliffe, Family Affairs and The Prisoner episode "It's Your Funeral".
Movies
(9 total)
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Sergeant in Dugout (uncredited)
The L-Shaped Room
as Milkman
It's a Grand Life
as Pvt. Prendergast
Touched by Frost: Goodbye Jack
as Self/P.C. Ernie Trigg
Detective Waiting
as Laidlaw
The Crunch
as Signal Sergeant
K Is for Killing
as Charley Wilson
Number 27
as Hardcastle
Prisoners in Space
as Kinano
TV Shows
(39 total)
The Prisoner
as Stall Holder
The Colour of Magic
as Rerpf
Space: 1999
as Kinano
A Touch of Frost
as Ernie Trigg
The Professionals
as Freddy
As Time Goes By
as Taxi Driver
Heartbeat
as Albert Fogarty
The Darling Buds of May
as Uncle Perce
The Duchess of Duke Street
as Mr Holdron
Thriller
as Charley Wilson
Secret Army
as Louis Bastiat
Murder in Mind
as Harry
Armchair Theatre
as Laidlaw
The River
as Inspector Snape
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as Larwood