Wilfrid Hyde-White

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Nationality: English
Birthdate: 05/12/1903
Birthplace: Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Death Date: 05/06/1991

biography

Distinguished-looking, urbane character actor noted for his droll humor on stage as the father of the title character in the drawing room comedy "The Reluctant Debutante" (London 1956, Broadway 1957) and the Laurence Olivier-Vivien Leigh "Caesar and Cleopatra" (1952). Often cast as genteel Englishmen whose surface manners mask a roguish or larcenous soul, Hyde-White is best known for his performances as Crippin, a British Council functionary in "The Third Man" (1949), the hypocritical headmaster in "The Browning Version" (1951) and Henry Higgins's bemused friend, Colonel Pickering, in "My Fair Continued

Credits

Crabbin
1999
Col Hugh Pickering
1964
John Wales
1960
Judge Miller
Colonel
Master Oliver
Eaton
Lord Stoneleigh
Trowbridge
Governor
Oldest Club Member
Roderick Montpelier
Barkley
General Charles Larraby
Billings Browne
Arthur Fairbrother
Hubert Foxley
Robert Brady
Sir Horace Hogg
Colonel Keene
Mr Starke
Lord Home
Mr Copsey
Abbot Thelonious
Richard Caraway
Colonel Somerset
Admiral Foley
Mr Barville
Sylvester Marin
Montague

milestones

Year
Milestone
1922 
Stage debut in "Tons of Money" on the Isle of Wight
 
Began career in a series of comedies produced during the late 1920s at the Aldwych Theater in London
1936 
Film debut, "Rembrandt"

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