death_place death_date birth_place relatives birth_date article_title name occupation
encino , california 5 august 2006 los angeles , california jack -rrb- ben white -lrb- brother -rrb- white -lrb- brother -rrb- jules white -lrb- brother october 16 , 1906 sam white -lrb- film producer -rrb-
 sam white film producer , film director , actor
sam white -lrb- film producer -rrb-

sam white was an american film producer , film director and actor .
white was born in los angeles on to parents who had immigrated from austria and hungary .
in 1937 , he married claretta ellis , a studio contract dancer .
they were married for 65 years until her death in 2002 .
for much of the 1930s , sam white directed numerous musical sequences in films such as `` roberta '' with fred astaire , ginger rogers and irene dunne ; `` old man rhythm '' with betty grable and buddy rogers ; `` top of the town '' with george murphy ; and `` hooray for love '' , with anne southern .
during world war ii sam made six training films for the u.s. armed forces .
also in the 1940s the feature films he produced and directed included `` reveille with beverly '' , starring ann miller -lrb- frank sinatra 's first film -rrb- ; `` people are funny '' , starring , jack haley and rudy vallée ; `` return of the vampire '' , starring bela lugosi ; `` the girl in the case '' , starring edmund lowe ; `` after midnight with boston blackie '' , starting chester morris ; `` louisiana hayride '' , starring judy canova ; and `` tahiti nights '' , starring jinx falkenberg for rko , columbia , universal and paramount studios .
during the next two decades sam directed commercials and produced and directed early television series such as `` perry mason '' , `` the outer limits '' , `` oh !
those bells '' , `` my friend flicka '' , `` boston blackie '' , `` philip marlowe '' , and `` big town '' , among many others .
in 1969 he produced and directed `` white comanche '' with william shatner and joseph cotton .
he was also a successful businessman with his production facility in pioneer town and commercial real estate ventures in los angeles .
throughout his later years , sam remained interested in world affairs and traveled extensively as a valued ombudsman for the directors guild to cement relations between foreign and american filmmakers .
in 1990 , the director 's guild of america published an oral history entitled `` the white brothers '' which tells the history of the family as well as the history of early movie making in los angeles .
sam white , one of the famous white brothers film and television pioneers , died peacefully at his encino home just short of his 100th birthday .
a retrospective was held in 2003 at the motion picture and television home where a wall of honor was dedicated to him .
his professional memorabilia was positioned alongside those of his renowned brothers , jack white and jules white .
