The White Knight is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...

's book Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a work of literature by Lewis Carroll . It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...

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He represents the chess piece

Knight (chess)

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 of the same name.
As imagined in John Tenniel

John Tenniel

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's illustrations for the Alice stories he has echoes of John Millais's Sir Isumbras at the Ford.

Storyline

The White Knight saves Alice from his opponent, the Red Knight. He repeatedly falls off his horse and lands on his head, and tells Alice of his inventions, which consists of things such as a pudding with ingredients like blotting paper, an upside down container, and anklets to guard his horse against shark bites.
He recites a poem of his own composition, 'A-Sitting on a Gate', (but the song's name is 'Haddocks' Eyes') and he and Alice depart.

Film incarnations

• Alice (2009) (TV) Played by Matt Frewer
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• The Slick White Rabbit (2005) Played by Steve Furedy
• Alice Underground (1999) Played by Chris Danuser
• Alice in Wonderland (1999 film)
  Alice in Wonderland (1999 film)
  Alice in Wonderland is a television film first broadcast in 1999 on NBC and then shown on British television on Channel 4. It is based upon Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass....
  
   (TV) Played by Christopher Lloyd
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• Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998) (TV) Played by Ian Holm
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• Chess Wars (1996) Played by Kirk B.R. Woller
• Alice Through the Looking Glass (1987) (TV) Played by Alan Young
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• Alice in Wonderland (1985 film)
  Alice in Wonderland (1985 film)
  Alice in Wonderland is a two-part film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice books. An Irwin Allen production, it was a special made for television and used a huge all-star cast of notable actors and actresses. The title role was played by 10-year-old Natalie Gregory, who wore a blonde wig for this...
  
   (TV) Played by Lloyd Bridges
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• Great Performances: "Alice in Wonderland" (1983) TV episode, Played by Richard Burton
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• Alice in Wonderland 1982 (TV) Played by Stephen Boe
• Alice Through the Looking Glass (1974) (TV) Played by Geoffrey Bayldon
• Alice in Wonderland (or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?) (1966) (TV) Played by Bill Dana
• Alice in Wonderland (1955) (TV) Played by Reginald Gardiner
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• Alice in Wonderland (1933) Played by Gary Cooper
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• In the 2010 movie
  Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)
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   the White Knight is one of the White Queen
  White Queen
  White Queen may refer to:*White Queen , a character in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass*The White Queen , a novel by Philippa Gregory*"White Queen ", a song by Queen from Queen II...
  
  's soldiers. He looks almost exactly like the real chess piece, he has the head of a horse.