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  1. 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,...

  2. 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.

  3. 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).

  4. Staff captain, Ghosts of Berkeley Square, British National, 1947. News editor, Meet Me at Dawn (also known as The Gay Duelist ), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. Mr. Culver, Affairs of Adelaide (also known as Forbidden Street and Britannia Mews ), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949.

  5. 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...

  6. 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 ...

  7. British actor Wilfred Hyde-White entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art upon graduation from Marlborough College. After some stage work, he made his first film in 1934 and became a stalwart in British movies like Rembrandt (1936) and The Demi-Paradise (1943), often billed as merely "Hyde White" and specializing in benign but stuffy upper ...

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