David Andrew Roy White is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, and businessman. He co-founded Pinnacle Peak Pictures, a distribution and production company specializing in Christian faith-themed and family-themed films. He is best known for his role as Reverend Dave in the God's Not Dead film series.
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Personal life
White is the son of a Mennonite pastor. He and actress and producer Andrea Logan were married. Logan played the role of his wife in In the Blink of an Eye, a 2009 film. In 2020, the couple announced that they had separated.
Career
After his arrival in Los Angeles, White was given the role of Andrew Phillpot, the best friend of Burt Reynolds' son, in the CBS sitcom Evening Shade (1990–1994). White had guest appearances in television series including Coach, California Dreams, Sisters and Melrose Place. He was a protagonist, Dan Burgess, in Second Glance, where his closing line "Hey Scotty, Jesus Man" turned into a meme. Among his early films were 20th Century Fox's The Visitation, an adaptation of the novel by author Frank Peretti, Bells of Innocence with actor Chuck Norris, and Mercy Streets, for which he was nominated for The MovieGuide Awards' Best Actor. In 2003 White starred alongside Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Six: The Mark Unleashed.
In 2005, he founded Pure Flix (Pinnacle Peak Pictures) with Michael Scott, Russell Wolfe, and Elizabeth Travis. Over the next several years, he produced and starred in several films including In the Blink of an Eye, Hidden Secrets, and The Moment After.
In 2011, White played Shane Daughtry in Jerusalem Countdown. In 2012, he played James in Brother White, Special Agent Ric Caperna in The Encounter: Paradise Lost (sequel to the 2011 film The Encounter, which he produced and directed) and pastor Rich Chaplin in Me Again, a film about a pastor unhappy with his life. He was nominated for a TCA best actor award. In 2014, he co-starred as a pastor in the film God's Not Dead. He starred in and produced two sequels, God's Not Dead 2 (2016) and God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness (2018), but only starred in God's Not Dead: We the People (2021). White also starred in the Pure Flix produced "Revelation Road" film series. He played a former government assassin turned Christian who struggles to survive a lawless post-rapture wasteland.
He created, produced, and starred in the sitcom Malibu Dan the Family Man in 2018.
Filmography
White produced God's Not Dead 2 and God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness.
Writings
White published the book Between Heaven and Hollywood: Chasing Your God-Given Dream.