Alex Hyde-White

Alex Hyde-White (born 30 January 1959), also credited as Alex Hyde White, is an English-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, Gretchen Corbett and Sharon Gless.

Alex Hyde-White
Born	30 January 1959 London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1978–present
Spouse(s)	Karen Dotrice ​ ​ (m. 1986; div. 1992)​ Shelly Bovert Hyde–White ​ ​ (m. after 1997)​
Children	2
Parent(s)	Wilfrid Hyde-White Ethel Drew

Early life

Hyde-White was born in London, the son of Ethel M. (née Korenman), a stage manager who acted under the name Ethel Drew, and actor Wilfrid Hyde-White.[1][2] Known as Punch to friends, he grew up in Palm Springs, California, attending Palm Springs High School and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. for one year after which he left to pursue an acting career.

Career

Under contract to Universal Pictures at age 18, his first television job was one line – "leave my mother alone" – spoken to star Jack Klugman on the television series Quincy M.E. He recurred in several episodes, each time as a different character and also made numerous appearances in Battlestar Galactica 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. A clip from that show is featured in his film Three Days of Hamlet.

In 1994 he played the Marvel Comics superhero Reed Richards, a.k.a. Mister Fantastic, in a motion picture adaptation of Marvel's flagship comics series The Fantastic Four. The film was low budget and made by certain parties in order to retain the film rights to the property; it was never released. Bootleg copies of the film made the rounds, and the film has acquired its own following. Hyde-White is regarded by many comics fans as the best embodiment of the character, who has since been played by Ioan Gruffudd and Miles Teller.

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 Jean Stapleton in a cameo as the advertising agency's owner. Stapleton's son John Putch was the director. Putch had directed Alex previously in Deep Water and in Murder 101 for Hallmark. Alex has worked with Steven Spielberg three times, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as Young Henry Jones Senior and Catch Me If You Can as Dick Kesner, the divorce lawyer, and “Tintin”.

Projects

Hyde-White directed the TMG production Three Days, from Universal City-based Ytinifni Pictures, headed by David Suarez. Also starring Peter Woodward, Richard Chamberlain and Stefanie Powers, the experimental first-person documentary follows a troupe of actors who gather for three days to rehearse and perform a reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The film won Best Documentary at three festivals, International Family Film Festival (Hollywood, Spring 2012), L-Dub (Lake Worth, FL, Fall 2012), and Eugene Int'l Film Festival (Oregon, Fall 2012).[3]

His production company, TMG, is developing a few projects for both the big and small screen. One is 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. The film is called Signal Hill. It is the first in the Danny Beckett series from Long Beach State professor Dilts. Another is Printer of Udell's based on the early 20th century novel by William Bell Wright.

His audiobook production company, Punch Audio,[4] publishes through Audible such titles as Paladins by Joel Rosenberg, Miracle At Merion: Ben Hogan's 1950 Comeback by David Barrett, I Am John Galt, These Precious Hours by Michael Corrigan, and Jesus: The Missing Years by Walter Parks. Other artists at Punch Audio include the British actor Ian Hart, and actresses Mary Jane Wells, Liane Curtis and Kate Huffman. They recently produced for Audible five novels by the late British author Alec Waugh including the novel Island in the Sun which was adapted into the 1957 hit film of the same name starring James Mason, Harry Belafonte and Joan Collins. Fellow actor friends Juliet Mills and Maxwell Caulfield voiced Love In These Days and My Brother Evelyn and Other Stories.

Personal life

Hyde-White was married to actress Karen Dotrice from 1986 until 1992. They have a son, Garrick. He is married to Shelly Hyde-White and resides in Santa Monica, California. They have a son Jackson.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	Battlestar Galactica	Cadet Bow/Male Pilot	2 episodes
1979	Captain America II: Death Too Soon	Young Man	TV Movie
	The Seekers	Oliver Prouty	Miniseries
1981	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century	Technician/Lieutenant Martin/Ensign Moore	4 episodes
	Tales of the Unexpected		Episode: The Best of Everything
1982	Voyagers!	Charles Dickens	Episode: The Day the Rebs Took Lincoln
	The Toy	Photographer
	The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet	Romeo
1984	The First Olympics: Athens 1896	Arthur Blake	Miniseries
1986	Biggles	Jim Ferguson
	Matlock	Vincent Hyland	Episode: The Seduction
1987	Ishtar	CIA Agent
1988	Supercarrier	Lt Dave "Hat Trick" Rawley
1989	The Phantom of the Opera	Richard Dutton
	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Young Henry
1990	Pretty Woman	David Morse
1991	Ironclads	Catesby Jones	TV Movie
1991-1992	Murder, She Wrote	Ogden Schmesser/Doug Simmons	2 episodes
1994	Walker, Texas Ranger	Grant Wallace	Episode: The Committee
	The Fantastic Four	Dr. Reed Richards
1995	Legend	George Armstrong Custer	Episode: Custer's Next to Last Stand
	Babylon 5	Pierce Macabee	Episode In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
	The Alien Within	Jedidiah Pickett	TV Movie
1997	Diagnosis Murder	Efrem Connors	Episode: A Mime Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
2002	Catch Me If You Can	Mr. Kesner
2003	Gods and Generals	Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside
	The West Wing	Andy's Accoster	Episode: The California 47th
2005	See Arnold Run	George Gorton	TV Movie
2006	Bones	Mr. Hobbes	Episode: The Titan on the Track
2010	NCIS	Dr. Adam Tallridge	Episode: Double Identity
2011	Night Club	Preacher
	The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn
	The Mentalist	Peter Upchurch	Episode: Blood and Sand
	Dexter	Dr. Trent Casey	Episode: Get Gellar
	The Christmas Pageant	Noah Humphrey	TV Movie
2012	Game Change	Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
	Three Days of Hamlet	Ghost/Son	Documentary
2015	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Lord Thornally	Episode: Purpose in the Machine
	Doomed!: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four	Himself	Documentary
	A Kind of Magic	Ben Paris
2016	Shameless	Priest
	Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel	Club
2018	Little Hero	Asura	animation film
	The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep	Gaufroi	Video Game
2019	This Is Us	Mr. Flaherty
2020	General Hospital	Pascal	2 episodes
2021	The Marriage Zone	Cal	TV Movie
TBA	Angelyne	Felix	Mini-series

References

1. "Alex Hyde-White Biography (1959-)". www.filmreference.com.
2. "Wilfrid Hyde-White Biography (1903-1991)". www.filmreference.com.
3. "Three Days (of Hamlet) Sneak Preview and Tea Party". BritWeek. Archived from the original on 30 April 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
4. "Punch Audio - Audiobook Production, Audio Producers". Punch Audio.

External links

• Alex Hyde-White at IMDb