Jules White

Jules White born Jules Weiss (17 September 1900 - 30 April 1985) was a movie director and producer. He is best known for his short-subject comedies starring the Three Stooges. White began working in motion pictures in the 1910s, as a child actor, for Pathé Studios. By the 1920s his brother Jack White had become a successful comedy producer at Educational Pictures, and Jules worked for him as a film editor. Jules became a director in 1926, special... more

Jules White born Jules Weiss (17 September 1900 - 30 April 1985) was a movie director and producer. He is best known for his short-subject comedies starring the Three Stooges. White began working in motion pictures in the 1910s, as a child actor, for Pathé Studios. By the 1920s his brother Jack White had become a successful comedy producer at Educational Pictures, and Jules worked for him as a film editor. Jules became a director in 1926, specializing in comedies. In 1930 White and his boyhood friend Zion Myers moved to the prestigious Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. They conceived and co-directed M-G-M's gimmicky "Dogville" comedies, which featured trained dogs in satires of recent Hollywood films (like The Dogway Melody and All Quiet on the Canine Front). White and Myers co-directed the Buster Keaton feature Sidewalks of New York, and launched a series of "Goofy Movies," one-reel parodies of silent-era melodramas. In 1933 White was appointed head of Columbia Pictures' short-subject... less