1. Wilfrid Hyde-White 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.
21 Facts About Wilfrid Hyde-White
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Wilfrid Hyde-White 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.
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Wilfrid Hyde-White Hyde White was born in Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, England in 1903 to the Rev William Edward White, canon of Gloucester Cathedral, and his wife, Ethel Adelaide.
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Wilfrid Hyde-White was the nephew of actor J Fisher White.
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Wilfrid 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.
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Wilfrid Hyde-White then gained steady work on the stage in a series of comedies produced at the Aldwych Theatre in London.
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Wilfrid Hyde-White joined a tour of South Africa in 1932 before making his film debut in Josser on the Farm where he was credited as "Wilfrid Hyde White".
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Wilfrid Hyde-White appeared in some earlier films as plain "Hyde White".
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Wilfrid Hyde-White later added the hyphen, as well as his first name.
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Wilfrid Hyde-White 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.
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Wilfrid Hyde-White appeared on Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award in 1956 for his role in The Reluctant Debutante.
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Between 1962 and 1965, Wilfrid Hyde-White starred in the BBC radio comedy The Men from the Ministry.
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Wilfrid Hyde-White was a series regular on the revamped second season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Doctor Goodfellow.
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Wilfrid Hyde-White has appeared on Broadway, and earned a second Tony nomination for his performance in The Jockey Club Stakes.
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Wilfrid Hyde-White appeared in two episodes of the mystery series Columbo, starring Peter Falk as the rumpled detective.
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On 17 December 1927, Wilfrid Hyde-White married Blanche Hope Aitken, a Glamorgan-born British actress known professionally as Blanche Glynne, who was a decade his senior.
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Blanche Glynne died in 1946, aged 53, and in 1957 Wilfrid Hyde-White married actress Ethel Drew.
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Wilfrid Hyde-White and Drew remained married until his death in 1991.
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Wilfrid Hyde-White had a long reputation as a bon viveur, gambled heavily and spent money recklessly.
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Wilfrid Hyde-White died from heart failure on 6 May 1991 at the age of 87, at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, having lived in the United States for 25 years as a tax exile.
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Wilfrid 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.