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Wilfrid Hyde-White (12 May 1903 – 6 May 1991) was a British character actor of stage, film and television. He achieved international recognition for his role as Colonel Pickering in the film version of the musical ''
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'' (1964).


Early life and career

Wilfrid Hyde White was born in
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in
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, England in 1903 to the Rev. William Edward White,
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of Gloucester Cathedral, and his wife, Ethel Adelaide ( Drought). He was the nephew of actor J. Fisher White. He attended
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and the
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, of which he said, "I learned two things at RADA - I can't act and it doesn't matter." He made his stage debut in the farcical play '' Tons of Money'' on the
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in 1922 and appeared in the West End for the first time three years later in the play ''
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''. He then gained steady work on the stage in a series of comedies produced at the
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in
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. He joined a tour of
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in 1932 before making his film debut in ''
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'' (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 ''
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'' (1949), he became a fixture in British films of the 1950s. His other films of this period include ''
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'' (1959) and the Danny Kaye film '' On the Double'' (1961). ''
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'' (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
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and Vivien Leigh in the repertory performance of '' Caesar and Cleopatra'' and '' Antony and Cleopatra'' in 1951. He also appeared on
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and was nominated for a
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in 1956 for his role in '' The Reluctant Debutante''. His first Hollywood appearance came alongside
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in the film ''
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'' (1960), followed by other films, including ''
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'' (1964).


Later career

Between 1962 and 1965, Hyde-White starred in the
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radio comedy ''
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''. In the 1970s and 1980s, he featured on the ''
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'' pilot episode "
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" and '' The Associates''. He was a series regular on the revamped second season of '' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'' playing one of the crew of the Starships Searchers primary characters Doctor Goodfellow. He continued to appear on Broadway, and earned a second Tony nomination for his performance in ''The Jockey Club Stakes''. He appeared in two episodes of the mystery series '' Columbo'', starring Peter Falk as the rumpled detective. Although the first, "
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" (1972), was set in Britain and concerned Columbo paying a visit to
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, Hyde-White's ongoing UK tax problems meant that, unlike American actors Falk and
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, and British actors appearing in the episode,
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, Bernard Fox,
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and Arthur Malet, he was unable to take part in location filming in the UK. His scenes as a butler were therefore filmed in California. 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
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.


Personal life

On 17 December 1927, he married Blanche Hope Aitken, a
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-born British actress known professionally as Blanche Glynne (1893–1946), who was a decade his senior. The couple had one son. Blanche Glynne died in 1946, aged 53, 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. Hyde-White had a reputation as a ''bon viveur,'' and in 1979 he was declared bankrupt by the
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.


Death

Hyde-White died from heart failure on 6 May 1991, six days before his 88th birthday, at the
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in
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, having lived in the United States for 25 years as a
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. His body was returned to the United Kingdom and buried in the family grave at The Cemetery,
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,
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.


Filmography


Complete films

* ''
Josser on the Farm ''Josser on the Farm '' is a 1934 British comedy film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Ernie Lotinga, Betty Astell and Garry Marsh. It was part of the series of ''Josser'' films featuring Lotinga. Cast * Ernie Lotinga - Jimmy Josser * Be ...
'' (1934) as Brooks * '' Smith's Wives'' (1935) (uncredited) * ''
Night Mail ''Night Mail'' is a 1936 British documentary film directed and produced by Harry Watt and Basil Wright, and produced by the General Post Office (GPO) Film Unit. The 24-minute film documents the nightly postal train operated by the London, ...
'' (1935) (uncredited) * ''
Admirals All ''Admirals All'' is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Victor Hanbury and starring Wynne Gibson, Gordon Harker, Anthony Bushell and George Curzon. It was based on the 1934 play of the same title by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall. Premise ...
'' (1935) as Mr. Stallybrass * ''
Murder by Rope ''Murder by Rope'' is a 1936 British mystery film directed by George Pearson (filmmaker), George Pearson and starring Constance Godridge, D. A. Clarke-Smith and Sunday Wilshin.Wood p.91 Cast * Constance Godridge as Daphne Farrow * D. A. Clarke ...
'' (1936) as Alastair Dane * ''
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'' (1936) as Civil Guardsman (uncredited) * ''
The Scarab Murder Case ''The Scarab Murder Case'' (1929) is a classic whodunit written by S. S. Van Dine. In this book, detective Philo Vance's murder investigation takes place in a private home that doubles as a museum of Egyptology, and the solution depends in part ...
'' (1936) as
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* ''
Spring Handicap ''Spring Handicap'' is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Will Fyffe, Maire O'Neill and Billy Milton. The film was made by the Associated British Picture Corporation at their Elstree Studios and based on the pla ...
'' (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 ''Murder in the Family'' is a 1938 British crime film directed by Albert Parker and starring Barry Jones, Jessica Tandy and Evelyn Ankers. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carmen Dillon. It was adapted from a 1936 novel of th ...
'' (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 ''I've Got a Horse'' is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Herbert Smith and starring Sandy Powell, Norah Howard and Felix Aylmer.Wood p.98 Plot Sandy accepts a racehorse called Lightning as settlement for a bad debt. When he enters the h ...
'' (1938) as Police Constable * '' Keep Smiling'' (1938) as Assistant Hotel Clerk (uncredited) * '' The Outsider'' (1939) as Patient (uncredited) * ''
The Lion Has Wings ''The Lion Has Wings'' is a 1939 British, black-and-white, documentary-style, propaganda war film that was directed by Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Alexander Korda and Michael Powell. The film was produced by London Film Productions and ...
'' (1939) as Waiter (uncredited) * '' Over the Moon'' (1939) as Dwight - Sanitarium Spokesman (uncredited) * ''
The Lambeth Walk "The Lambeth Walk" is a song from the 1937 musical '' Me and My Girl'' (with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay). The song takes its name from a local street, Lambeth Walk, once notable for its street mark ...
'' (1939) as Lord Battersby * ''
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'' (1939) as Postman * '' The Briggs Family'' (1940) as Man with Moustache at Party (uncredited) * ''
Turned Out Nice Again ''Turned Out Nice Again'' is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring the Lancashire-born comedian George Formby. Made at Ealing Studios, ''Turned Out Nice Again'' premiered at the London Pavilion Cinema on 29 June 194 ...
'' (1941) as Removal Man (uncredited) * ''
Lady from Lisbon ''Lady from Lisbon'' is a 1942 British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Francis L. Sullivan, Jane Carr, Martita Hunt and Charles Victor. It was shot at the Riverside Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by t ...
'' (1942) as Ganier * ''
Asking for Trouble ''Asking for Trouble'' is a 1942 British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Max Miller, Carole Lynne and Wilfrid Hyde-White. Its plot follows a fishmonger who takes up bookmaking to earn extra cash. Cast * Max Miller as Di ...
'' (1942) as Pettifer * ''
The Demi-Paradise ''The Demi-Paradise'' (also known as ''Adventure for Two'') is a 1943 British comedy film made by Two Cities Films. It stars Laurence Olivier as a Soviet Russian inventor who travels to England to have his revolutionary propeller manufactured, a ...
'' (1943) as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited) * ''
Night Boat to Dublin ''Night Boat to Dublin'' is a 1946 British thriller film directed and co-written by Lawrence Huntington. It stars Robert Newton, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton, Muriel Pavlow and Herbert Lom. Plot During the Second World War, a captured German ...
'' (1946) as Taxi Driver * ''
Wanted for Murder ''Wanted for Murder'' is the title of a collection of six mystery novellas by Leslie Charteris which was first published in the United States in August 1931. This book was part of an ongoing series of novels and novellas by Charteris featuring ...
'' (1946) as Guide in Madame Tussaud's * ''
Appointment with Crime ''Appointment with Crime'' is a 1946 British crime film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Raymond Lovell, Joyce Howard and Robert Beatty. Plot Leo Martin (Hartnell) works for a criminal gang run by Gus Loman (Lovell) tha ...
'' (1946) as Cleaner * ''
While the Sun Shines ''While the Sun Shines'' is a 1947 British comedy film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Barbara White, Ronald Squire, Brenda Bruce, Bonar Colleano, and Michael Allan. It was based on Terence Rattigan's 1943 play of the same name. Plot ...
'' (1947) as Male Receptionist * ''
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'' (1947) as Garin - News Editor * ''
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square ''The Ghosts of Berkeley Square'' is a 1947 British comedy film, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer. The film is an adaptation of the 1944 novel '' No Nightingales'' by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, inspired b ...
'' (1947) as Staff Captain * ''
My Brother Jonathan ''My Brother Jonathan'' is a 1948 British drama film directed by Harold French and starring Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Ronald Howard and Beatrice Campbell. It is adapted from the 1930 novel '' My Brother Jonathan'' by Francis Brett Young, ...
'' (1948) as Mr. Gaige * ''
The Winslow Boy ''The Winslow Boy'' is an English play from 1946 by Terence Rattigan based on an incident involving George Archer-Shee in the Edwardian era. The incident took place at the Royal Naval College, Osborne. Background Set against the strict c ...
'' (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 ''The Forbidden Street'' is a 1949 British melodrama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton and A. E. Matthews. Set in Victorian London, it tells the story of a wealthy young wo ...
'' (1949) as Mr. Culver * ''
That Dangerous Age ''That Dangerous Age'' is a 1949 British romance film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Myrna Loy, Roger Livesey and Peggy Cummins. It was adapted from the play ''Autumn'' by Margaret Kennedy and Ilya Surguchev. The film was released und ...
'' (1949) as Mr. Potts * ''
The Bad Lord Byron ''The Bad Lord Byron'' is a 1949 British historical drama film about the life of Lord Byron. It was directed by David MacDonald and starred Dennis Price as Byron with Mai Zetterling, Linden Travers and Joan Greenwood. Plot The film sees life ...
'' (1949) as Mr. Hopton * ''
Adam and Evelyne ''Adam and Evelyne'', released in the U.S. as ''Adam and Evalyn'', is a 1949 romance film starring Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons. According to Robert Osborne, host of Turner Classic Movies, this suited the stars, as they were romantically inv ...
'' (1949) as Col. Bradley * '' Helter Skelter'' (1949) as Dr. B. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde * '' Conspirator'' (1949) as Lord Pennistone * ''
The Third Man ''The Third Man'' is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Set in postwar Vienna, the film centres on American Holly Martins (Cotten ...
'' (1949) as Crabbin * ''
The Man on the Eiffel Tower ''The Man on the Eiffel Tower'' is a 1950 American Ansco Color film noir mystery film directed by Burgess Meredith and starring Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Meredith, and Robert Hutton. It is based on the 1931 novel '' La Tête d'un homme'' ...
'' (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 ''The Mudlark'' is a 1950 film made in Britain by 20th Century Fox. It is a fictional account of how Queen Victoria was eventually brought out of her mourning for her dead husband, Prince Albert. It was directed by Jean Negulesco, written and ...
'' (1950) as Tucker (uncredited) * ''
Highly Dangerous ''Highly Dangerous'' is a 1950 British spy film starring Margaret Lockwood. The screenplay was written by Eric Ambler. It was released in the US by Lippert Pictures as ''Time Running Out''. Plot Frances Gray is as a British entomologist trying t ...
'' (1950) as Mr. Luke - British consul * ''
Midnight Episode ''Midnight Episode'' is a 1950 British thriller mystery film directed by Gordon Parry. It is based on the novel ''Monsieur La Souris'' written by Georges Simenon in the year 1938, and adapted for screen by Rita Barisse. It featured Stanley Ho ...
'' (1950) as Mr. Knight * '' Blackmailed'' (1951) as Lord Dearsley * ''
Mister Drake's Duck ''Misterr Drake's Duck'' is a 1951 British science fiction film, science-fiction comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan, Jon Pertwee, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Reginald Beckwith. The screenplay concerns ...
'' (1951) as Mr. May * '' The Browning Version'' (1951) as Dr. Frobisher * ''
No Highway in the Sky ''No Highway in the Sky'' (also known as ''No Highway'') is a 1951 British black-and-white aviation drama film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Louis D. Lighton, directed by Henry Koster, that stars James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis ...
'' (1951) as Fisher, Inspector of Accidents (uncredited) * ''
Outcast of the Islands ''Outcast of the Islands'' is a 1951 British adventure drama film directed by Carol Reed based on Joseph Conrad's 1896 novel ''An Outcast of the Islands''. The film features Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley and Wendy Hiller. Pl ...
'' (1951) as Vinck * ''
Mr. Denning Drives North ''Mr. Denning Drives North'' is a 1951 British mystery film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring John Mills, Phyllis Calvert and Sam Wanamaker. The plot concerns an aircraft manufacturer (Mills) who accidentally kills the boyfriend (Herbert ...
'' (1952) as Woods * ''
The Card ''The Card'' is a comic novel written by Arnold Bennett in 1911 (entitled ''Denry the Audacious'' in the American edition). It was later made into a 1952 movie, starring Alec Guinness and Petula Clark. Like much of Bennett's best work, it i ...
'' (1952) as Lord at Liverpool Boat Harbour (uncredited) * ''
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'' (1952) as Sir Hubert Wells * ''
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan ''The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan'' (also known as ''Gilbert & Sullivan'' and ''The Great Gilbert and Sullivan'') is a 1953 British musical drama film dramatisation of the collaboration between Gilbert and Sullivan. Librettist W. S. Gilbert a ...
'' (1953) as Mr. Marston * '' Four Sided Triangle'' (1953) as Government Minister (segment "Priceless Pocket") * ''
The Million Pound Note ''The Million Pound Note'' is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Gregory Peck, Ronald Squire, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Jane Griffiths. It is based on the 1893 Mark Twain short story '' The Million Pound Bank Note'' ...
'' (1954) as Roderick Montpelier * ''
The Rainbow Jacket ''The Rainbow Jacket'' is a 1954 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden, and featuring Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Bill Owen, Honor Blackman and Sid James. It was made at Ealing Studios produced by Michael Balcon and Michael Relph and sho ...
'' (1954) as Lord Stoneleigh * ''
Duel in the Jungle ''Duel in the Jungle'' is a 1954 British adventure film combining the detective film with the jungle adventure genres directed by George Marshall and starring Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain and David Farrar. It was shot at the Elstree Studios near ...
'' (1954) as Pitt * '' Betrayed'' (1954) as Gen. Charles Larraby * ''
To Dorothy a Son ''To Dorothy a Son'' is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Muriel Box and starring Shelley Winters, John Gregson and Peggy Cummins. Known in the U.S. as ''Cash on Delivery'', it is based on the 1950 play ''To Dorothy, a Son'' by Roger MacDo ...
'' (1954) as Mr. Starke * '' See How They Run'' (1955) as Brig. Buskin * ''
John and Julie ''John and Julie'' (1955) is a British comedy film, starring Colin Gibson, Lesley Dudley, Noelle Middleton and Moira Lister, and featuring Peter Sellers and Sid James in early screen roles. Plot The film is set in 1953 in the week leading up ...
'' (1955) as Sir James * ''
The Adventures of Quentin Durward ''The Adventures of Quentin Durward'', known also as ''Quentin Durward'', is a 1955 British historical film released by MGM. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The screenplay was by Robert Ardrey, adapted by Geo ...
'' (1955) as Master Oliver * '' The March Hare'' (1956) as Col. Keene * ''
My Teenage Daughter ''My Teenage Daughter'', later ''Teenage Bad Girl'', is a 1956 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms and Norman Wooland. The screenplay concerns a mother who tries to deal with her teenage daughter' ...
'' (1956) as Sir Joseph * ''
The Silken Affair ''The Silken Affair'' is a 1956 British romantic comedy film directed by Roy Kellino and starring David Niven, Geneviève Page, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Joan Sims, Irene Handl and Ronald Squire. The screenplay concerns an accountant who is creative ...
'' (1956) as Sir Horace Hogg * ''
Tarzan and the Lost Safari ''Tarzan and the Lost Safari'' is a 1957 action adventure film featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan and starring Gordon Scott, Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan and Betta St. John. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, it was the f ...
'' (1957) as 'Doodles' Fletcher * ''
That Woman Opposite ''That Woman Opposite'' (U.S. ''City After Midnight'') is a 1957 British crime drama, directed by Compton Bennett and starring Phyllis Kirk, Dan O'Herlihy and William Franklyn. The screenplay, also by Bennett, was adapted from John Dickson Car ...
'' (1957) as Sir Maurice Lawes * '' The Vicious Circle'' (1957) as Maj. Harrington, aka Robert Brady * ''
The Truth About Women ''The Truth About Women'' is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Muriel Box and starring Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris, Mai Zetterling and Diane Cilento. Plot When his son-in-law comes to him with a woeful tale of an unhappy relationship and ...
'' (1957) as Sir George Tavistock * '' Up the Creek'' (1958) as Adm. Foley * ''
Wonderful Things! ''Wonderful Things!'' is a 1958 British comedy romance film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Frankie Vaughan, Jocelyn Lane and Wilfrid Hyde-White. It was written by Jack Trevor Story. The screenplay concerns two fishermen brothers who cl ...
'' (1958) as Sir Bertram * '' The Lady Is a Square'' (1959) as Charles * ''
Carry On Nurse ''Carry On Nurse'' is a 1959 British comedy film, the second in the series of 31 ''Carry On'' films (1958–1992). Of the regular team, it featured Joan Sims (in her ''Carry On'' film debut), Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawt ...
'' (1959) as The Colonel * ''
Life in Emergency Ward 10 ''Life in Emergency Ward 10'' is a 1959 film directed by Robert Day. It stars Michael Craig and Wilfrid Hyde-White. It was based on the television series ''Emergency – Ward 10''. Cast * Michael Craig as Dr. Stephen Russell *Wilfrid Hyde-Whit ...
'' (1959) as Professor Bourne-Evans * '' North West Frontier'' (1959) as Bridie * ''
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'' (1959) as Hubert Foxley * ''
Two-Way Stretch ''Two-Way Stretch'', is a 1960 British comedy film, about a group of prisoners who plan to break out of jail, commit a robbery, and then break back into jail again, thus giving them the perfect alibi – that they were behind bars when the ro ...
'' (1960) as Soapy Stevens * ''
Let's Make Love ''Let's Make Love'' is a 1960 American musical comedy film made by 20th Century Fox in DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope. Directed by George Cukor and produced by Jerry Wald from a screenplay by Norman Krasna, Hal Kanter, and Arthur Miller, the film ...
'' (1960) as George Welch * '' His and Hers'' (1961) as Charles Dunton * '' On the Double'' (1961) as Colonel Somerset * ''
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'' (1961) as Sylvester Marin * ''
On the Fiddle ''On the Fiddle'' (released as ''Operation Snafu'' and ''Operation War Head'' in the United States) is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Sean Connery, Alfred Lynch, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Eric Barker, M ...
'' (1961) as Trowbridge * ''
Crooks Anonymous ''Crooks Anonymous'' is a British comedy film from 1962. Directed by Ken Annakin, it stars Leslie Phillips and Stanley Baxter and is notably the feature film debut of Julie Christie. Plot Captain "Dandy Forsdyke" (Leslie Phillips) is a habitua ...
'' (1962) as Laurence Montague * ''
In Search of the Castaways ''In Search of the Castaways'' (french: Les Enfants du capitaine Grant, lit=The Children of Captain Grant) is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867–68. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of ill ...
'' (1962) as Lord Glenarvan * ''Aliki My Love'' (1963) as Richard Caraway * ''
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'' (1964) as Colonel Hugh Pickering * ''
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'' (1965) as Mustafa Guz * '' You Must Be Joking!'' (1965) as Gen. Lockwood * ''
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'' (1965) as Judge Cannon * '' The Liquidator'' (1965) as Chief * ''
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'' (1966) as Arthur Fairbrother * '' The Sandwich Man'' (1966) as Lord Uffingham * '' Chamber of Horrors'' (1966) as Harold Blount * ''
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'' (1967) as Colonel Baisbrook * '' P.J.'' (1968) as Billings-Browne * '' The Magic Christian'' (1969) as Captain Reginald K. Klaus * ''
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'' (1969) as The Governor * '' Skullduggery'' (1970) as Eaton * ''
Fragment of Fear ''Fragment of Fear'' is a 1970 British thriller film directed by Richard C. Sarafian and starring David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Roland Culver, Flora Robson and Arthur Lowe. It was adapted from the 1965 novel '' A Fragme ...
'' (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 ''King Solomon's Treasure'' is a 1979 British-Canadian low-budget film based on the novels ''King Solomon's Mines'' (1885) and ''Allan Quatermain'' (1887) by H. Rider Haggard. It stars John Colicos as Allan Quatermain, as well as David McCallum, ...
'' (1979) as Oldest Club Member * '' A Touch of the Sun'' (1979) as M-1 * '' Xanadu'' (1980) as Male Heavenly Voice (voice) * ''
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'' (1980) as Abbot Thelonious * ''
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'' (1980) as Judge Thomas Miller * '' Tarzan, the Ape Man'' (1981) as Club Member (voice) * '' The Toy'' (1982) as Barkley * ''
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'' (1983) as Mr. John Barville


Partial television credits

* ''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 * ''
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'': " Passage on the Lady Anne" (1963) * ''
Lucy in London ''Lucy in London'' is a 1966 prime-time Television special, TV special produced and directed by Steve Binder, co-produced and choreographed by David Winters (choreographer), David Winters and sponsored by the Monsanto Company. The program starred ...
'' (1966) as Madame Tussauds Guide * '' Mission: Impossible'': "Echo of Yesterday" (1967) * ''
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'': "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 ''Run a Crooked Mile'' is a 1969 British made-for-television thriller film starring Louis Jourdan as Richard Stuart, an ordinary schoolteacher who, whilst on holiday, is a witness to a murder in a private secluded mansion. When he reports this ho ...
'' (TV movie, 1969) as Dr. Ralph Sawyer * '' It Takes a Thief'': "To Lure a Man" (1969) * ''
Ritual of Evil ''Ritual of Evil'' is a 1970 American made-for-television drama horror film directed by Robert Day and starring Louis Jourdan. It was made as a sequel to '' Fear No Evil'' (1969), which also starred Louis Jourdan as Dr. Sorrell. Plot Psychiatri ...
'' (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 * ''
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'' (TV, 1978) as Sire Anton * ''
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'' (1978) * '' The Associates'' (1979) * '' The Rebels'' (TV movie, 1979) as Gen. Howe * ''
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'' (TV episode, 1979) as Prof. Tolan * ''
Laverne and Shirley ''Laverne & Shirley'' (originally ''Laverne DeFazio & Shirley Feeney'') is an American sitcom television series that played for eight seasons on ABC from January 27, 1976, to May 10, 1983. A spin-off of ''Happy Days'', ''Laverne & Shirley'' sta ...
'' (TV episode, 1980) as Colonel Kalaback * ''Scout's Honor'' (TV movie, 1980) as Uncle Toby "Nuncle" Bartlett * ''
Dick Turpin Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher ea ...
'' (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

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
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award for "Best Actor in a Play" for the Broadway run.


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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hyde-White, Wilfrid 1903 births 1991 deaths Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art English expatriates in the United States English male film actors English male stage actors English male television actors English male radio actors People from Bourton-on-the-Water People educated at Marlborough College Male actors from Gloucestershire 20th-century English male actors British expatriate male actors in the United States