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.
Through his production company TMG, named after his mentor, Washington attorney Steven Martindale,
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clarification needed
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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
twice,
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as a younger version of
Henry Jones Sr.
and
Catch Me If You Can
as Dick Kesner, the
divorce
lawyer. He also played the polo-playing son of Ralph Bellamy in
Pretty Woman
.
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).
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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,
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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
and
Mulligan
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.
Hyde-White was married to actress
Karen Dotrice
from 1986 until 1992. They have a son, Garrick. In 1997, he married Shelly Bovert; they have a son, Jackson, and reside in Santa Monica, California.