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Wilfrid Hyde-White
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Actor Born: May 12, 1903 in Bourton-on-the-Water, England, UK Death: May 6, 1991 in Woodland Hills, CA Biography: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-class types. Hyde-White received a somewhat larger role than usual in "The Third Man" (1949), principally because his character was an amalgam of two characters who were originally written for the erstwhile British comedy team "Basil Radford" and "Naunton Wayne". Working both sides of the continent, Hyde-White appeared in such American productions as "In Search of the Castaways" (1962) and "Gaily, Gaily" (1969). His best-loved role was as Colonel Pickering in the 1964 Oscar-winner "My Fair Lady", wherein he participated in two musical numbers, "The Rain in... Full Biography
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