De'voreaux White facts for kids

De'voreaux White (born Devorea W. Sefas; August 6, 1965) is an American actor. He started his career as a child actor in the late 1970s, and may be best known for his role in Die Hard (1988) as the young limousine driver, Argyle.

Career

Film and television

De'voreaux White was born in Los Angeles County, California. He began acting professionally at the age of ten.

His first bookings were The Jeffersons, Little House on the Prairie, and 1980's The Blues Brothers (as a would-be-shoplifter who is thwarted by a gun-toting Ray Charles). White also played one of the boys who attempt to keep a baseball in the Neil Simon movie Max Dugan Returns. In 1984, he played Wylie in Places in the Heart. The movie received notice at the Academy Awards; White credits this role for providing an opportunity to read with producer Joel Silver and star Bruce Willis for Die Hard (1988). White filmed his scenes with Willis over a period of three months; some of their dialogue was improvised on the set.

White also starred in the television series Head of the Class, and co-starred as a misfit who befriends Rick Schroder in 1989's Out on the Edge. In 1992, White played in Walter Hill's Trespass. White appeared in the 2000 drama Shadow Hours.

White reprised his role as Argyle from Die Hard, with Willis, in a commercial for Advance Auto Parts' DieHard brand of car batteries in October 2020.

Other work

In 2019, White set up his own company in California.

Personal life

In 2019, White resided in Newport Beach, California. His original last name, Sefas, is Ethiopian; after his mother died, his maternal grandparents with the surname White adopted him.

Filmography

Television

• 1977 The Jeffersons as Warren Barnes
• 1979–1981 Little House on the Prairie as various characters
• 1981 Quincy, M.E. as Ethan Kellogg
• 1982 T.J. Hooker as Stevie Pine
• 1983–1984 Diff'rent Strokes as Glenn
• 1985 Highway to Heaven as Terry
• 1986 227 as Harvey
• 1989 In the Heat of the Night as Albert Tolliver
• 1989 Out on the Edge as Lonnie
• 1989–1991 Head of the Class as Aristotle McKenzie
• 2014 Workaholics as Uber Driver
• 2023 Easter as Smiley
• 2023 Obliterated as Delray

Films

• 1979 Aunt Mary as Wally Hazel
• 1980 The Blues Brothers as Young Guitar Thief
• 1983 Max Dugan Returns as Boy
• 1984 Places in the Heart as Wylie
• 1988 Action Jackson as Clovis
• 1988 Die Hard as Argyle
• 1988 Split Decisions as Coop
• 1992 Trespass as "Lucky"
• 2000 Shadow Hours
• 2012 Sandbar as Charles Kendall