Brian "H.B." White was a British cartoonist, creating 'The Nipper' for the Daily Mail between 1933 and 1947. Both "Keyhole Kate" and "Double Trouble" ran in London's Evening Standard. Early in his career he forged links with Sid Griffiths, who had developed Jerry the Tyke and brought in White who had been one of the team of animators on the 1924 film of George E. Studdy's character Bonzo the dog. They latterly formed the company Griffiths and White in 1929, working from an office in the Charing Cross Road, London, initially producing animated advertisements for Superads where Carl Giles was first employed. Griffiths and White continued throughout the 1930s, eventually working at Anson Dyer's Anglia Films Stroud-based studio which was later taken over by Halas & Batchelor for the development of Animal Farm. In collaboration with cousin Harold White, B&H Publications produced George Bernard Shaw Through The Camera in 1948. Brian White worked for a year in 1952/3 on the first feature cartoon Animal Farm, based on George Orwell's novel of the same name. An associate here was Sid Griffiths, with whom he had first collaborated 30 years earlier. He is the grandfather of British sculptor Jon Edgar. White died at Rustington, West Sussex in 1984.
Films
1925 Jerry the Troublesome Tyke - animator 1925 The Joy Provider - animator 1925 In and Out of Wembley - animator 1926 A Flash Affair - animator 1926 All Up a Tree - animator 1926 A Sticky Business - animator 1926 Going West - animator 1926 Golf - animator 1926 He Gets Fired - animator 1926 We Nearly Lose Him - animator 1925 Honesty Is the Best Policy - animator 1930 Tropical Breezes - Director, with Sid Griffiths and A. Goodman 1933 Colonel Capers - animator 1934 Treasure Island - Director, writer and animator
Pathefilms web archive of Jerry the Tyke http://www.britishpathe.com/programmes/jerry-the-troublesome-tyke British Cartoon Archive, Templeman Library, University of Kent, UK http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/brianwhite/biography Animal Farm film EAN 5050582008982 Daily Mail Nipper Annual 1940 - reprinted White Crescent Press
