Ernest White Jr. (born February 27, 1943) is a Robloxian actor and singer. He had received numerous of awards throughout his career spanning five decades, including a Bloxy Award, two RRD Awards, a Grammy Award and a NGGI Award.
He was also highly known for major appearances in various films such as Junk (1967), Mohanblox Gandhi (1982) and John (1989). Not only these, however he also appeared in a variety of television series. His main focus was on films throughout the decades of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and later moved on to his focus on series.
A turning point had come in his career after his role and great achievement of acting as Mohanblox Gandhi in the film, Mohanblox Gandhi (1982), with numerous other actors. He was also known for several of his songs, Dim Light (1972), Waters Shine (1977) and Grooving Forever (1977). He had released a variety of albums throughout the mid to late 1970s.
Early Life and Education
A picture of the house that Ernest grew up in (taken around 1959)
Ernest White Jr. was born on February 27, 1943 at the city of Davidson, Wisconsin. He was born as the second child out of three children and hence, was the middle child. Ernest had grew up with his family near several farmlands at the outskirts of the city and had enjoyed watching TV Shows and films from the television. These helped him develop a huge interest in acting and singing. At an age of twelve in 1955, he had watched the film, The Seven Robloxians (1948) and was heavily inspired. He finally decided to have singing and acting as his career having a strong desire on being main characters of films.
Life and Career
Ernest’s debut was made in 1965 in the film, Jerrit as a recurring character. He continued his acting career taking part in numerous of films during the late 1960s, in films, and also films that were quite prominent like Duration of Ice (1967), Shark Attack (1968), Detective Ron (1968) and Watson (1969). He had a keen interest in taking part in various detective films. In 1970, at the age of twenty seven, he had finally acted as the main character in the film, Gorillas (1970), which was a one hour and fifty two minute comedy film that had gained popularity during the early 1970s. This film was also quite popular due to Ernest’s great acting.
Ernest in 1975
Ernest had temporarily moved to Bloxburg on January 28, 1971 in order to continue his acting career and he had mainly aimed on gaining a great reputation and dedicated audiences. In Bloxburg, he had participated in the film The Feeling of Being Broke (1971), which had gotten quite prominent. By the proceeding year, Ernest was already a famous actor and had a wide reputation having a variety of audiences. He had continued his acting career in various comedy and detective films. In 1977, he had made the song, Grooving Forever which immediately gained popularity helping on Ernest’s reputation. Throughout the mid to late 1970s, Ernest had released many albums which had been hits too.
A turning point in Ernest’s career came with his appearance in the historical and biographical drama film Mohanblox Gandhi (1982), and this film was directed by Richard Blocks, in which Ernest played the main character and the role of the famous activist and peaceful Robloxian, Mohanblox Gandhi. The film gained a huge reputation and had a great success financially. In 1983 at RBX News, Ernest had stated "I feel a genuine spirit of Gandhi after this great film and I really enjoyed being a part of it". Ernest had went on to win an award from the Bloxy Awards and an award from the BFFD.
Throughout the 1980s, Ernest had appeared in a variety of films, including a leading role in the William Smith’s Robloxian hit drama Well Dairy (1984). The film was based on a dairy of a family circling around a boy called John. In 1991, he had signed a contract with numerous of other actors on the film, Denmark (1992), which had became a quite popular and prominent film.
As the 1990s passed, Ernest had still managed to keep a great and high reputation as he had appeared in films such as Dogend (1994), A water that falls (1995) and Remained Mystery (1995), and these films were great successes. Ernest had won several more awards by his roles. In 2004, he had appeared in Wandering, a successful film that Ernest had also directed in it to help the director. This helped him receive a grammy award making it a great achievement.