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Arthur White
Born: 3rd Jan 1933 Finchley, London, England, UK
Dept: Acting
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".
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 47
Film: 9 (19%)
Television: 38 (81%)
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Filmography
2025
A desperate call for help as the residents of Moonbase Alpha are hurled into an interplanetary power struggle. As tensions rise, disaster strikes when ... view
Character:
Kinano
2010
Cast and crew discuss the final series of A Touch of Frost ... view
Character:
Self/P.C. Ernie Trigg
Mar 2008 (first aired)
As Rincewind involuntarily becomes a guide to the naive tourist Twoflower, they find themselves forced to flee the city of Ankh-Morpork to escape a te ... view
Character:
Rerpf (1 ep.)
Apr 2001 (first aired)
Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of t ... view
Character:
Harry (1 ep.)
Jul 1994 (first aired)
Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. It was produced by HTV and br ... view
Character:
Taxi Driver (1 ep.)
Nov 1993 (first aired)
Gary Sparrow is an ordinary bloke in 1990s Britain, married to the ambitious Yvonne and working as a TV repairman. Then his whole world changes when h ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Dec 1992 (first aired)
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like ... view
Character:
Ernie Trigg (14 ep.)
PC Ernie Trigg (7 ep.)
Jul 1992 (first aired)
John Cornelius (called JC) is a university don who also works for his city police force as a consultant psychologist. Samantha Valentine is his offbea ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
May 1992 (first aired)
Aging historian Gerald Middleton is taciturn and methodical, a creature of habit who prefers his daily routine undisturbed. Separated from his wife an ... view
Character:
Larwood (3 ep.)
Apr 1992 (first aired)
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines. ... view
Character:
Albert Fogarty (1 ep.)
Jan 1992 (first aired)
Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding. ... view
Character:
Taxi Driver (1 ep.)
Apr 1991 (first aired)
An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, ... view
Character:
Uncle Perce (2 ep.)
1988
Miss Barwick is 90 years old. She has lived peacefully in the same house all her life - until a young property developer arrives at her front door to ... view
Character:
Hardcastle
Oct 1988 (first aired)
The River follows the tranquil life of lovable, Cockney, ex-convict Davey Jackson who is lock keeper on the canal near the village of Chumley-on-the-W ... view
Character:
Inspector Snape (1 ep.)
Oct 1984 (first aired)
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and d ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (6 ep.)
Apr 1980 (first aired)
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmissi ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Dec 1977 (first aired)
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley.
The mandate of CI5 was to ... view
Character:
Freddy (1 ep.)
Sep 1977 (first aired)
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistan ... view
Character:
Louis Bastiat (1 ep.)
Sep 1977 (first aired)
You're Only Young Twice is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV. Created and written by Michael Ashton and Pam Valentine, the pro ... view
Character:
Mr Smith (1 ep.)
Sep 1976 (first aired)
The Duchess of Duke Street is a British television period drama created and written by John Hawkesworth, loosely based on the real-life career of Rosa ... view
Character:
Mr Holdron (1 ep.)
Dec 1975 (first aired)
Following his mother's death and a move to a new area, Ben Dyker secretly joins a hopeless local youth team. His father, a disillusioned former footba ... view
Character:
Mr Robson (9 ep.)
Sep 1975 (first aired)
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space. ... view
Character:
Kinano (1 ep.)
Apr 1974 (first aired)
A six-part BBC2 drama about the Honourable Greville Carnforth, an aristocratic solicitor based in a small village community in the Lake District. ... view
Character:
Sgt Armstrong (1 ep.)
1974
A husband and wife team are hired to protect an eccentric millionaire from an assassin but a series of murders follows. ... view
Character:
Charley Wilson
Apr 1973 (first aired)
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-containe ... view
Character:
Charley Wilson (1 ep.)
Apr 1972 (first aired)
New Scotland Yard is a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network between 1972 and 1974. It features the activities ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Apr 1972 (first aired)
Pardon My Genie was a children's comedy series produced by British ITV contractor Thames Television, and written by Bob Block who later created Rentag ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (26 ep.)
Sep 1971 (first aired)
An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detecti ... view
Character:
March (1 ep.)
1971
A cat and mouse game develops between a big man of crime and a young detective constable. But the big man doesn't realize, that this mouse roars. ... view
Character:
Laidlaw
Jan 1970 (first aired)
Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide. ... view
Character:
Henri (1 ep.)
Jun 1969 (first aired)
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformatio ... view
Character:
William Shelton (1 ep.)
1969
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfa ... view
Character:
Sergeant in Dugout (uncredited)
Sep 1967 (first aired)
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders de ... view
Character:
Stall Holder (1 ep.)
Apr 1965 (first aired)
Orlando is a British young adult detective thriller series transmitted for four series between 1965–1968. Produced by Associated-Rediffusion for ITV ... view
Character:
Shish Kebab (12 ep.)
Ben Ali Kebab (5 ep.)
Nov 1964 (first aired)
Crossroads is a British television soap opera set in a fictional motel near Birmingham, England. Created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, the commercial ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (590 ep.)
Oct 1964 (first aired)
Redcap is a British television series produced by ABC Weekend Television for ITV. John Thaw stars as Sergeant John Mann, a member of the Special Inves ... view
Character:
Jenkins (1 ep.)
May 1964 (first aired)
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first reg ... view
Character:
Sergeant Holden (1 ep.)
1964
A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge ransom ... view
Character:
Signal Sergeant
Apr 1963 (first aired)
The adventures of Richard Crane, cafe owner & part-time smuggler, around the coast of Morocco, aided (and sometimes abetted) by his ex-Foreign Legion ... view
Character:
Pirelli (1 ep.)
1962
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. Afte ... view
Character:
Milkman
Sep 1959 (first aired)
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (5 ep.)
Jul 1956 (first aired)
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produ ... view
Character:
Laidlaw (1 ep.)
1953
Classic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private, played by music hall legend Frank Randle in his final screen role, as he attempts to ... view
Character:
Pvt. Prendergast