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Wilfrid 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 (née Drought). He was the nephew of actor J. Fisher White . [ 5 ]
Wilfrid Hyde-White plays the butler who covers for the couple but later tries to blackmail them and is murdered by Frame. Arthur Malet is the theater doorman who comes into possession of the dead man's umbrella, which becomes vital to the resolution of the case.
The series is about lazy, bungling, incompetent civil servants, "Number One" – Roland Hamilton-Jones (Wilfrid Hyde-White) and later Deryck Lennox-Brown (Deryck Guyler), "Number Two" – Richard Lamb (Richard Murdoch), with their dim, typo-prone, teenage secretary, Mildred Murfin (Norma Ronald), all watched-over by the lecherous, pompous, self-seeking Permanent Under-Secretary Sir Gregory ...
Hyde-White was born in London, the son of Ethel M. (née Korenman), a stage manager who acted under the name Ethel Drew, and British actor Wilfrid Hyde-White. [1] [2] Known as Punch to friends, he grew up in Palm Springs, California, attending Palm Springs High School [citation needed] and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. for one year after which he left to pursue an acting career.
Ten Little Indians is a 1965 British crime mystery film directed by George Pollock.It is the second film version of Agatha Christie's 1939 novel. [1] It was produced by Oliver A. Unger, with co-producer Harry Alan Towers also credited as co-writer under his pen name Peter Welbeck.
The following is an episode list for the crime fiction television series Columbo. After two pilot episodes, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie. Columbo then aired on ABC as part of The ABC Mystery Movie from 1989 to 1990 and less frequently starting in late 1990. The last ...
Two-Way Stretch, also known as Nothing Barred, is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Robert Day and starring Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lionel Jeffries and Bernard Cribbins. [3] The screenplay is by Vivian Cox, John Warren and Len Heath. A group of prisoners plan to break out of jail, commit a robbery, and then break back into their ...
He wanted Alistair Sim, Terry Thomas and Kenneth More to play the leads but instead got Wilfrid Hyde White, Stanley Baxter and Leslie Phillips. [4] Annakin later wrote "Despite all my directorial efforts, Crooks Anonymous remained a typical low-budget picture, making a small profit to the very insular producer and British distributors. Once ...