Alex Hyde-White

This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (June 2008)

Alex Hyde-White (born 30 January 1959), also credited as Alex Hyde White, is a British-born American film and television actor. In 1978, he signed with Universal Pictures as one of the last "contract players" in Hollywood, in a group that included Lindsay Wagner, Andrew Stevens and Sharon Gless.

Background

Hyde-White was born in London, the son of Ethel M. (née Korenman), a stage manager who acted under the name Ethel Drew, and the 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]} (Class of 1975) and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. for one year after which he left to pursue the inevitable acting career. Hyde-White was married to actress Karen Dotrice, daughter of actor Roy Dotrice from 1986 until 1992. He is married to Shelly Hyde-White and resides in Santa Monica, California. They have two children, both boys, Garrick and Jack. They are active at First Presbyterian Church, Santa Monica Little League and Will Rogers Elementary School and the local Moose Lodge.

He is represented by Ann Geddes and Richard Lewis at the Geddes Agency and by well-known Hollywood attorney Michael Donaldson.

Career

Under contract to Universal Pictures at age 18, his first TV job was one line "leave my mother alone" spoken to star Jack Klugman on the iconic TV series Quincy M.E. He recurred in several episodes, each time a different character and also made numerous appearances in Battlestar Galactica with Lorne Greene and later Buck Rogers in the 25th century which also featured his father Wilfrid. The only time both father and son appeared on screen together was on the Merv Griffin show in 1980, also he appear on "Uptown girl" of Westlife.

Through his production company TMG, named after his mentor, Washington attorney Steven Martindale, he produced the 2002 independent romantic drama, Pursuit of Happiness which starred Frank Whaley, Annabeth Gish, Adam Baldwin and featured comedienne Jean Stapleton in a cameo as the advertising agency's owner. Stapleton's son John Putch was the director. Putch had directed Alex prior in Deep Water and since in Murder 101 starring comedian Dick Van Dyke for Hallmark. Alex has worked with Steven Spielberg three times, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, as Young Henry Jones, Sr., Catch Me If You Can and The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, which was released on 21 December 2011.

Projects

Hyde-White directed the TMG production Three Days, due for release in Winter/Spring 2012. Also starring Peter Woodward, Richard Chamberlain, and Stefanie Powers, the experimental first-person doc weaves a hero's journey form the most unlikely of arenas as it follows a troupe of actors who gather for three days to rehearse and perform a staged reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet. ^[3]

TMG is developing the existentialist crime novel King of Infinite Space with the book's author Tyler Dilts, as an independent film. Screenwriter Peter Woodward is adapting the novel.

Partial filmography

• 2011 – The Christmas Pageant
• 2011 – Game Change
• 2011 – "Three Days of Hamlet"
• 2011 – The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn
• 2005 – See Arnold Run
• 2003 – Gods and Generals
• 2002 – Catch Me If You Can
• 1995 – Babylon 5 (season 2, episode "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"
• 1994 – The Fantastic Four
• 1990 – Pretty Woman
• 1989 – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• 1988 – Supercarrier – Lt Dave "Hat Trick" Rawley
• 1986 – Biggles: Adventures in Time – Jim Ferguson
• 1984 – The First Olympics: Athens, 1896 – Arthur Blake
• 1983 – The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
• 1982/83 – Voyagers!
• 1979/81 – Buck Rogers in the 25th century (season 2)
• 1978 – Battlestar Galactica

References

External links

• Official website
• Alex Hyde-White at the Internet Movie Database
• [1]