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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.
Wilfrid Hyde-White. Actor: My Fair Lady. British character actor of wry charm, equally at home in amused or strait-laced characters. A native of Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, he attended Marlborough College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. His stage debut came in 1922, and by 1925 he was a busy London actor.
Actor: My Fair Lady. British character actor of wry charm, equally at home in amused or strait-laced characters. A native of Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, he attended Marlborough College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
May 7, 1991 · Wilfrid Hyde-White, the English actor who appeared in films including "My Fair Lady," "Ten Little Indians," "The Third Man" and "The Browning Version," died yesterday in Woodland Hills,...
May 7, 1991 · Wilfrid Hyde-White, the impeccably attired, properly mannered character in scores of Hollywood’s and England’s finest films, died Monday morning of heart failure.
May 6, 1991 · 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 My Fair Lady (1964).
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May 6, 1991 · LOS ANGELES -- Veteran actor Wilfrid Hyde-White, best known for his role as Colonel Pickering in the film 'My Fair Lady,' died Monday of heart failure, a week short of his 88th birthday,...
6.8K. 1M views 9 years ago. "The Rain in Spain" – Performed by Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Audrey Hepburn (partially dubbed by Marni Nixon), from the musical film "My fair Lady”...
A supremely unctuous character player, adept at smoothly honed sycophancy - as, for example, the literary chairman of The Third Man (d. Carol Reed, 1949), the headmaster in The Browning Version (d. Anthony Asquith, 1951), and one of the wealthy brothers in The Million Pound Note (d. Ronald Neame, 1953). With his plummy tones and sleekly coiffed ...
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).
