Wilfrid Hyde-White

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Wilfrid Hyde-White (12 May 1903 – May 6, 1991) was a British character actor of stage, film, and television, who gained international fame in his later years for his role as Colonel Pickering in the 1964 film version of The Fair Lady.

Personal life

Blanche Hope Aitken, a Glamorganshire-born British actress who was known as Blanche Glynne (1893–1946), was married on December 17, 1927. He was a decade his senior. The couple had one child. Blanche Glynne died in 1946, aged 53, and 1957, Hyde-White married actress Ethel Drew. He and Drew remained married until his death in 1991. Both of the couple's children, including actor Alex Hyde-White, were born in the United States.

Hyde-White had a reputation as a bon viveur, but the Inland Revenue declared him bankrupt in 1979.

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Early life and career

Wilfrid Hyde White was born in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England, in 1903 to the Rev. Wilfrid Hyde White. William Edward White, the canon of Gloucester Cathedral, and his companion, Ethel Adelaide (née Drought), were married. He was the nephew of actor J. Fisher White. He studied at Marlborough College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, of which he said, "I learned two things at RADA - I can't move and it doesn't matter."

In the play Beggar on Horseback, he made his stage debut on the Isle of Wight in 1922 and appeared in the West End for the first time three years. In a string of comedies produced at the Aldwych Theatre in London, he continued to appear on stage. He went on a tour of South Africa in 1932 before making his film debut in Josser on the Farm (1934), where he was identified as "Wilfrid Hyde White" (without the hyphen). He appeared in other films as plain "Hyde White." He also changed the name of the hyphen and first name.

He became a regular fixture in British cinema of the 1950s after appearing in supporting roles in The Third Man (1949). Carry on Nurse (1959) and Danny Kaye's film On the Double (1961). Two-Way Stretch (1960) exhibits a more roguish side to some of the characters he portrayed in this period. In Caesar and Cleopatra and Antony and Cleopatra in 1951, he continued to act on the stage and appeared alongside Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. He appeared on Broadway and was also nominated for a Tony Award in 1956 for his role in The Reluctant Debutante. He made his Hollywood debut in the film Let's Make Love (1960), which was followed by other films, including My Fair Lady (1964).

Later career

Hyde-White appeared in the BBC radio comedy The Men from the Ministry from 1962 to 1965. He appeared on Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode "Saga of a Star World" and The Associates in the 1970s and 1980s. He appeared on the revivaled second season of Buck Rogers in the 25th century as one of the crew of the Starship Searchers primary characters. He continued to appear on Broadway and received his second Tony nomination for his role in The Jockey Club Stakes.

He appeared in two episodes of Columbo's mystery film Columbo, starring Peter Falk as the rumpled detective. Despite the fact that "Dagger of the Mind" (1972) was shot in Britain and worried Columbo was visiting Scotland Yard, Hyde-White's pending UK tax difficulties meant that, unlike American actors Falk and Richard Basehart and British actor Honor Blackman, Bernard Fox, John Fraser, and Arthur Malet, he was unable to film in the UK, he was unable to participate in location filming in the United Kingdom. His scenes as a butler were also shot in California. In 1976, he appeared on Columbo for his second time.

When Eamonn Andrews surprised him at Goodwood Racecourse in 1976, he was the subject of This Is Your Life.

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