David A.R. White

Biography

David Andrew Roy White is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, and businessman. He is a co-founder of Pinnacle Peak Pictures, a distribution and production company specializing in Christian faith- and family-themed films. He is best known for his role as Reverend Dave in the God's Not Dead film series.

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, he 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 both 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. White played a former government assassin turned Christian who struggles to survive a lawless post-rapture wasteland.

In 2015, he played Wayne in Faith of Our Fathers, a film about veterans from the Vietnam War and the experiences of their families.

On March 27, 2018, a short compilation documentary Pure Flix and Chill: The David A.R. White Story about him by Anthony Simon was released on the Filmmaker Magazine website.

He created, produced, and starred in the sitcom Malibu Dan, the family man in 2018