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Wilfrid Hyde-White (née Hyde White ; 12 May 1903 – 6 May 1991) was an English actor. Described by Philip French as a "classic British film archetype", Hyde-White often portrayed droll and urbane upper-class characters.[1 ] He had an extensive stage and screen career in both the United Kingdom and the United States, and portrayed over 160 film and television roles between 1935 and 1987.[2 ] [3 ] He was twice nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play , in 1957 for The Reluctant Debutante and in 1973 for The Jockey Club Stakes .[4 ]
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Born
Wilfrid Hyde White
12 May 1903
Died 6 May 1991(1991-05-06) (aged 87)
Resting place Water Cemetery, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England Occupation(s ) Actor, singer Years active 1934–1983 Spouses
(m. 1927; died 1946)
(m. 1957)
Children 3; including Alex
Early life
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Career
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Hyde-White made his stage debut in the farcical play Tons of Money on the Isle of Wight in 1922 and appeared in the West End for the first time three years later in the play Beggar on Horseback .[3 ] He then gained steady work on the stage in a series of comedies produced at the Aldwych Theatre in London . He joined a tour of South Africa in 1932 before making his film debut in Josser on the Farm (1934) where he was credited as "Wilfrid Hyde White" (without the hyphen). He also appeared in some earlier films as plain "Hyde White". He later added the hyphen, as well as his first name.
Following a supporting role in The Third Man (1949), he became a fixture in British films of the 1950s. His other films of this period include Carry On Nurse (1959) and the Danny Kaye film On the Double (1961).[3 ] Two-Way Stretch (1960) displays a more roguish side than some of the characters he played in this period. He continued to act on the stage and played opposite Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in the repertory performance of Caesar and Cleopatra and Antony and Cleopatra in 1951. He also appeared on Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award in 1956 for his role in The Reluctant Debutante . His first Hollywood appearance came alongside Marilyn Monroe in the film Let's Make Love (1960), followed by other films, including his best-known screen role as Col. Hugh Pickering in My Fair Lady (1964).[3 ]
Between 1962 and 1965, Hyde-White starred in the BBC radio comedy The Men from the Ministry . In the 1970s and 1980s, he featured on the Battlestar Galactica pilot episode "Saga of a Star World " and The Associates . He was a series regular on the revamped second season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Doctor Goodfellow. He continued to appear on Broadway, and earned a second Tony nomination for his performance in The Jockey Club Stakes .[3 ]
He appeared in two episodes of the mystery series Columbo , starring Peter Falk as the rumpled detective. Although the first, "Dagger of the Mind " (1972), was set in Britain and concerned Columbo paying a visit to Scotland Yard , Hyde-White's UK tax problems meant that he was unable to take part in location filming in the UK. His 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 " in 1976.
He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1976 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at Goodwood Racecourse .[citation needed ]
Personal life
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On 17 December 1927, Hyde-White married Blanche Hope Aitken, a Glamorgan -born British actress known professionally as Blanche Glynne (1893–1946),[7 ] who was a decade his senior. The couple had one son. Blanche Glynne died in 1946, aged 53,[8 ] and in 1957 Hyde-White married actress Ethel Drew. He and Drew remained married until his death in 1991. The couple had two children, including actor Alex Hyde-White .[citation needed ]
Hyde-White had a long reputation as a bon viveur, gambled heavily and spent money recklessly. In 1979, he was declared bankrupt by the Inland Revenue .[3 ]
Death
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Filmography
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Complete films
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Smith's Wives (1935) (uncredited)
Night Mail (1935) (uncredited)
Alibi Inn (1935) as Husband
Admirals All (1935) as Mr. Stallybrass
Murder by Rope (1936) as Alastair Dane
Rembrandt (1936) as Civil Guardsman (uncredited)
The Scarab Murder Case (1936) as Philo Vance
Spring Handicap (1937) as Hawkins (uncredited)
Elephant Boy (1937) as Commissioner
Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937) as Conrad (uncredited)
Change for a Sovereign (1937) as Charles
Murder in the Family (1938) as Purvitt – Estate Agent (uncredited)
The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938) as Holmes (uncredited)
Meet Mr. Penny (1938) as Mr. Wilson
I've Got a Horse (1938) as Police Constable
Keep Smiling (1938) as Assistant Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
The Outsider (1939) as Patient (uncredited)
The Lion Has Wings (1939) as Waiter (uncredited)
Over the Moon (1939) as Dwight – Sanitarium Spokesman (uncredited)
The Lambeth Walk (1939) as Lord Battersby
Poison Pen (1939) as Postman
The Briggs Family (1940) as Man with Moustache at Party (uncredited)
Turned Out Nice Again (1941) as Removal Man (uncredited)
Lady from Lisbon (1942) as Ganier
Asking for Trouble (1942) as Pettifer
The Demi-Paradise (1943) as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Night Boat to Dublin (1946) as Taxi Driver
Wanted for Murder (1946) as Guide in Madame Tussaud's
Appointment with Crime (1946) as Cleaner
While the Sun Shines (1947) as Male Receptionist
Meet Me at Dawn (1947) as Garin – News Editor
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947) as Staff Captain
My Brother Jonathan (1948) as Mr. Gaige
The Winslow Boy (1948) as Wilkinson (uncredited)
Bond Street (1948) as Jeweller
My Brother's Keeper (1948) as Harding
Quartet (1948) as 2nd Clubman (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
The Passionate Friends (1949) as Lawyer
The Forbidden Street (1949) as Mr. Culver
That Dangerous Age (1949) as Mr. Potts
The Bad Lord Byron (1949) as Mr. Hopton
Adam and Evelyne (1949) as Col. Bradley
Helter Skelter (1949) as Dr. B. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Conspirator (1949) as Lord Pennistone
The Third Man (1949) as Crabbin
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) as Professor Grollet
Golden Salamander (1950) as Agno
The Angel with the Trumpet (1950) as Simmerl
Last Holiday (1950) as Chalfont
Trio (1950) as Mr. Gray (segment "Mr. Know-All")
The Mudlark (1950) as Tucker (uncredited)
Highly Dangerous (1950) as Mr. Luke – British consul
Midnight Episode (1950) as Mr. Knight
Blackmailed (1951) as Lord Dearsley
Mister Drake's Duck (1951) as Mr. May
The Browning Version (1951) as Dr. Frobisher
No Highway in the Sky (1951) as Fisher, Inspector of Accidents (uncredited)
Outcast of the Islands (1951) as Vinck
Mr. Denning Drives North (1952) as Woods
The Card (1952) as Lord at Liverpool Boat Harbour (uncredited)
Top Secret (1952) as Sir Hubert Wells
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) as Mr. Marston
Four Sided Triangle (1953) as Government Minister (segment "Priceless Pocket")
The Million Pound Note (1954) as Roderick Montpelier
The Rainbow Jacket (1954) as Lord Stoneleigh
Duel in the Jungle (1954) as Pitt
Betrayed (1954) as Gen. Charles Larraby
To Dorothy a Son (1954) as Mr. Starke
See How They Run (1955) as Brig. Buskin
John and Julie (1955) as Sir James
The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) as Master Oliver
The March Hare (1956) as Col. Keene
My Teenage Daughter (1956) as Sir Joseph
The Silken Affair (1956) as Sir Horace Hogg
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957) as 'Doodles' Fletcher
That Woman Opposite (1957) as Sir Maurice Lawes
The Vicious Circle (1957) as Maj. Harrington, aka Robert Brady
The Truth About Women (1957) as Sir George Tavistock
Up the Creek (1958) as Adm. Foley
Wonderful Things! (1958) as Sir Bertram
The Lady Is a Square (1959) as Charles
Carry On Nurse (1959) as The Colonel
Life in Emergency Ward 10 (1959) as Professor Bourne-Evans
North West Frontier (1959) as Bridie
Libel (1959) as Hubert Foxley
Two-Way Stretch (1960) as Soapy Stevens
Let's Make Love (1960) as George Welch
His and Hers (1961) as Charles Dunton
On the Double (1961) as Colonel Somerset
Ada (1961) as Sylvester Marin
On the Fiddle (1961) as Trowbridge
Crooks Anonymous (1962) as Laurence Montague
In Search of the Castaways (1962) as Lord Glenarvan
Aliki My Love (1963) as Richard Caraway
My Fair Lady (1964) as Colonel Hugh Pickering
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965) as Mustafa Guz
You Must Be Joking! (1965) as Gen. Lockwood
Ten Little Indians (1965) as Judge Cannon
The Liquidator (1965) as Chief
Our Man in Marrakesh (1966) as Arthur Fairbrother
The Sandwich Man (1966) as Lord Uffingham
Chamber of Horrors (1966) as Harold Blount
The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967) as Colonel Baisbrook
P.J. (1968) as Billings-Browne
The Magic Christian (1969) as Captain Reginald K. Klaus
Gaily, Gaily (1969) as The Governor
Skullduggery (1970) as Eaton
Fragment of Fear (1970) as Mr. Copsey
The Cherry Picker (1974) as Dobson
No Longer Alone (1976) as Lord Home
The Cat and the Canary (1979) as Cyrus West
King Solomon's Treasure (1979) as Oldest Club Member
A Touch of the Sun (1979) as M-1
Xanadu (1980) as Male Heavenly Voice (voice)
In God We Tru$t (1980) as Abbot Thelonious
Oh, God! Book II (1980) as Judge Thomas Miller
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) as Club Member (voice)
The Toy (1982) as Barkley
Fanny Hill (1983) as Mr. John Barville
Partial television credits
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Laburnum Grove (BBC, 1947) as Bernard Baxley
A Month in the Country (BBC, 1947) as Bolshintsov
Affairs of State (BBC, 1952)
The Reluctant Debutante (BBC, 1955) as Jimmy Broadbent
The Twilight Zone : "Passage on the Lady Anne " (1963)
Lucy in London (1966) as Madame Tussauds Guide
Mission: Impossible : "Echo of Yesterday" (1967)
Daniel Boone : "Who Will 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 Harry Snowden
Run a Crooked Mile (TV movie, 1969) as Dr. Ralph Sawyer
It Takes a Thief : "To Lure a Man" (1969)
Ritual of Evil (TV movie, 1970) as Harry Snowden
Columbo : "Dagger of the Mind" (1972)
A Brand New Life (TV movie, 1973) as Mr. Berger
Columbo : "Last Salute to the Commodore" (1976)
The Great Houdini (TV Movie, 1976) as Supt. Melville
Battlestar Galactica (TV, 1978) as Sire Anton
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
The Associates (1979)
The Rebels (TV movie, 1979) as 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 the 25th Century (1981) as Dr. Goodfellow
Father Damien: The Leper Priest (TV movie, 1980) as Bishop Maigret
The Letter (TV movie, 1982) as Judge
Theatre
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Hyde-White appeared in numerous plays, such as The Jockey Club Stakes , at first in London's West End in 1970, starring alongside Viviane Ventura, then on Broadway in 1973; he received a Tony award for "Best Actor in a Play" for the Broadway run.[9 ] [10 ]
References
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^ a b c d e f "Wilfrid Hyde White". The Times . No. 64013. London. 8 May 1991. p. 16.
^ "Wilfred Hyde-White – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB" . Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 14 February 2024 .
^ a b Julian Rollins (7 May 1991). "Gentleman of the stage dies at 87". The Times . No. 64012. London. p. 3.
^ Williams, Simon. "Wasn't he so lovely?" . The Oldie . Retrieved 18 February 2024 .
^ 1893 year of birth per census records for Blanche Hope Aitken, Hyde-White's first wife
^ Blanche White (professional name Blanche Glynne) died in England, aged 53, in 1946, not 1948, as per England and Wales death records at findmypast.co.uk website : Registration District: Chard, County: Somerset, Year of Registration: 1946, Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun, Age at death: 53, Volume No: 5C, Page No: 340
^ "The Jockey Club Stakes (Broadway, Cort Theatre, 1973)" . Playbill . Retrieved 23 January 2022 .
^ "Production of The Jockey Club Stakes" . Theatricalia . Retrieved 23 January 2022 .
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