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Wilfrid Hyde-White

1903 - 1991

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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. He 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilfrid Hyde-White has received more than 1,199,963 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilfrid Hyde-White is the 5,034th most popular actor (down from 4,328th in 2019), the 3,816th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,438th in 2019) and the 582nd most popular British Actor.

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  • 18

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  • 2.21

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  • 3.38

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Wilfrid Hyde-White ranks 5,034 out of 13,578. Before him are Carol Cleveland, Lili Taylor, Leonor Varela, Harry Lennix, Theodore Roberts, and Wallace Reid. After him are Farida Jalal, Michael Bowen, Paprika Steen, Coleen Gray, Tony Lo Bianco, and Freddie Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Wilfrid Hyde-White ranks 269. Before him are Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Lajos Steiner, Vicente Piera, María Teresa León, Adolf Kainz, and Marjorie Cox Crawford. After him are Eric A. Havelock, Ali Sastroamidjojo, Gérard Delbeke, Guillermo Saavedra, Juan Jover, and Hans Christian Branner. Among people deceased in 1991, Wilfrid Hyde-White ranks 193. Before him are Dilara Aliyeva, Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Moshe Castel, Mildred Dunnock, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, and Jean Van Houtte. After him are David Marshall Lang, Ken Uehara, Ismat Chughtai, Daniel Oduber Quirós, Inga Gentzel, and Márcio Melo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Wilfrid Hyde-White ranks 3,816 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton (1663), Michael Hurst (1957), Carol Cleveland (1942), Andrew Fisher (1862), Granville Bantock (1868), and Edward Blore (1787). After him are Mal Evans (1935), James Wilson (1742), Anne V. Coates (1925), Freddie Jones (1927), Clifford Curzon (1907), and Phyllis Johnson (1886).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Wilfrid Hyde-White ranks 582. Before him are Ann Todd (1907), Elizabeth Spriggs (1929), Wallace Ford (1898), Katherine Waterston (1980), Michael Hurst (1957), and Carol Cleveland (1942). After him are Freddie Jones (1927), Ben Chaplin (1969), Patricia Hayes (1909), Alun Armstrong (1946), Paul Anderson (1978), and David Burke (1934).

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Television and Movie Roles

My Fair Lady
Colonel Hugh Pickering
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Oct 21st 19647.497 / 10
The Third Man
Crabbin
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
Aug 31st 19497.9 / 10
Carry On Nurse
The Colonel
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who's a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell wants his bunion removed straight away, so after a couple of pints, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!
Jan 30th 19596.3 / 10