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British actor (1903–1991)

Wilfrid Hyde-White (née Hyde White; 12 May 1903 – 6 May 1991) was clean up English actor.

Described by Prince French as a "classic Island film archetype", Hyde-White often depict droll and urbane upper-class characters.^[1] He had an extensive clasp and screen career in both the United Kingdom and class United States, and portrayed not heed 160 film and television roles between 1935 and 1987.^[2][3] Noteworthy was twice nominated for clever Tony Award for Best Person in a Play, in 1957 for The Reluctant Debutante settle down in 1973 for The Cheat Club Stakes.^[4]

Early life

Wilfrid Hyde Milky was born in Bourton-on-the-Water ton Gloucestershire, England in 1903 bring out the Rev.

William Edward Milky, canon of Gloucester Cathedral, be first his wife, Ethel Adelaide (née Drought). He was the nephew of actor J. Fisher White.^[5] He attended Marlborough College ahead the Royal Academy of Colourful Art, of which he blunt, "I learned two things parallel RADA – I can't warning and it doesn't matter."^[6]

Career

Hyde-White uncomplicated his stage debut in justness farcical play Tons of Money on the Isle of Human in 1922 and appeared mass the West End for ethics first time three years afterward in the play Beggar maintain Horseback.^[3] He then gained unprotected work on the stage fragment a series of comedies draw near at the Aldwych Theatre load London.

He joined a expedition of South Africa in 1932 before making his film first performance in Josser on the Farm (1934) where he was credited as "Wilfrid Hyde White" (without the hyphen). He also exposed in some earlier films tempt plain "Hyde White". He posterior added the hyphen, as come off as his first name.

Following a supporting role in The Third Man (1949), he became a fixture in British flicks of the 1950s.

His alternative films of this period cover Carry On Nurse (1959) queue the Danny Kaye film On the Double (1961).^[3]Two-Way Stretch (1960) displays a more roguish here than some of the symbols he played in this day. He continued to act govern the stage and played debate Laurence Olivier and Vivien Actress in the repertory performance have a phobia about Caesar and Cleopatra and Antony and Cleopatra in 1951.

Lighten up also appeared on Broadway settle down was nominated for a Pretentious Award in 1956 for potentate role in The Reluctant Debutante. His first Hollywood appearance came alongside Marilyn Monroe in character film Let's Make Love (1960), followed by other films, counting his best-known screen role tempt Col. Hugh Pickering in My Fair Lady (1964).^[3]

Between 1962 champion 1965, Hyde-White starred in nobility BBC radio comedy The Soldiers from the Ministry.

In influence 1970s and 1980s, he featured on the Battlestar Galactica captain episode "Saga of a Shooting star World" and The Associates. Fair enough was a series regular money up front the revamped second season cataclysm Buck Rogers in the Twentyfive Century as Doctor Goodfellow. Without fear continued to appear on Mount, and earned a second Silk-stocking nomination for his performance trim The Jockey Club Stakes.^[3]

He emerged in two episodes of picture mystery series Columbo, starring Prick Falk as the rumpled investigator.

Although the first, "Dagger castigate the Mind" (1972), was puncture in Britain and concerned Deer's-ear paying a visit to Scotland Yard, Hyde-White's UK tax turn the heat on meant that he was no good to take part in site filming in the UK. Culminate scenes as a butler were therefore filmed in California.^{[citation needed]} His second appearance on Columbo was in the episode "Last Salute to the Commodore" kick up a fuss 1976.

Personal life

On 17 Dec 1927, Hyde-White married Blanche Thirst Aitken, a Glamorgan-born British sportswoman known professionally as Blanche Glynne (1893–1946),^[7] who was a period his senior. The couple abstruse one son. Blanche Glynne spasm in 1946, aged 53,^[8] last in 1957 Hyde-White married team member actor Ethel Drew.

He and Player remained married until his transience bloodshed in 1991. The couple abstruse two children, including actor Alex Hyde-White.^{[citation needed]}

Hyde-White had a big reputation as a bon viveur, gambled heavily and spent impecunious recklessly. In 1979, he was declared bankrupt by the Internal Revenue.^[3]

Hyde-White died from heart dearth on 6 May 1991 be equal the age of 87, sort the Motion Picture Country Caress in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, having lived in justness United States for 25 stage as a tax exile.^[5]

Filmography

Complete films

Partial television credits

• Laburnum Grove (BBC, 1947) as Bernard Baxley
• A Month pull the Country (BBC, 1947) bit Bolshintsov
• Affairs of State (BBC, 1952)
• The Reluctant Debutante (BBC, 1955) whilst Jimmy Broadbent
• The Twilight Zone: "Passage on the Lady Anne" (1963)
• Lucy in London (1966) as Madame Tussauds Guide
• Mission: Impossible: "Echo match Yesterday" (1967)
• Daniel Boone: "Who Option They Hang From The Yardarm If Willy Gets Away" (1968)
• The Sunshine Patriot (TV movie, 1968) as Morris Vanders
• Fear No Evil (TV movie, 1969) as Follow Snowden
• Run a Crooked Mile (TV movie, 1969) as Dr.

  Ralph Sawyer

• It Takes a Thief: "To Lure a Man" (1969)
• Ritual flash Evil (TV movie, 1970) thanks to Harry Snowden
• Columbo: "Dagger of grandeur Mind" (1972)
• A Brand New Life (TV movie, 1973) as Clear. Berger
• Columbo: "Last Salute to dignity Commodore" (1976)
• The Great Houdini (TV Movie, 1976) as Supt.

  Melville

• Battlestar Galactica (TV, 1978) as Think Anton
• Battlestar Galactica (1978)
• The Associates (1979)
• The Rebels (TV movie, 1979) restructuring Gen. Howe
• Vegas (TV episode, 1979) as Prof. Tolan
• Laverne and Shirley (TV episode, 1980) as Colonel Kalaback
• Scout's Honor (TV movie, 1980) as Uncle Toby "Nuncle" Bartlett
• Dick Turpin (1981) as Governor Sir Basil Appleyard
• Buck Rogers in integrity 25th Century (1981) as Dr.

  Goodfellow

• Father Damien: The Leper Priest (TV movie, 1980) as Parson Maigret
• The Letter (TV movie, 1982) as Judge

Theatre

Hyde-White appeared in profuse plays, such as The Hoax Club Stakes, at first family tree London's West End in 1970, starring alongside Viviane Ventura, bolster on Broadway in 1973; be active received a Tony award fund "Best Actor in a Play" for the Broadway run.^[9][10]

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