Biographie

His first wife was a decade his senior. His second wife, however, was thirty years his junior. In the conservative 1950s, the age difference raised eyebrows at the time of his wedding in England, but he later remarked that, as soon as his wife entered her thirties, everyone forgot about it.

Upon his death, his remains were interred at Water Cemetery in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England.

He appeared six times on the medical drama Ben Casey (1961) in the 1960s, playing a variety of characters. He told an interviewer that the main reason he appeared on the show so often was that one of the perquisites for guest artistes was a full medical check-up at the Mayo Clinic, free of charge.

Living in the USA, Hyde-White accepted the role in Un thermomètre pour le colonel (1959) without reading the script as it was a free ticket home just in time for him to attend the Grand National. However, his agent threatened to sue Un thermomètre pour le colonel (1959) producer Peter Rogers, claiming that someone else's bottom had been used in the Daffodil gag sequence, but the actor and his agent withdrew the claim when it was pointed out that no one's bottom was used and that it was all done by suggestion.

Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic): in 1957, for "The Reluctant Debutante," and in 1973, for "The Jockey Club Stakes."