Jules White

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Biography

Hungarian-born American film director and producer

  • Primary profession
  • Producer·director·actor
  • Country
  • Hungary
  • Nationality
  • Hungarian
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 17 September 1900
  • Place of birth
  • Budapest
  • Death date
  • 1985-04-30
  • Death age
  • 85
  • Place of death
  • Van Nuys

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Trivia

He was a brother of Sam White and Jack White. He also had a sister, Ruth.

He had two sons: Harold White and Richard.

Is portrayed by Lewis Fitz-Gerald in The Three Stooges

Father-in-law of Ruth Godfrey.

On November 19, 1967, he married Judith Pivar, a former wife of Ben Pivar.

Born in Budapest and educated in America. Began as a child actor for Path Films at the age of ten, then worked as a comedy editor for Educational Pictures Studio in the early 1920s. Began directing in 1925, and, after stints at MGM and Paramount, was appointed head of Columbias short subjects department in 1933. He eventually turned out more than 500 short features. White is best remembered as the main director of Three Stooges comedies, from 1945 to 1957.

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