Paxton Whitehead

Paxton Whitehead (1937-2023) was a British character actor. He appeared on-camera on Dinosaurs as paleontologist Sir David Tushingham in "The Clip Show" and "The Clip Show II". In between those episodes, he voiced Judge H. T. Stone in "Charlene's Flat World."
Whitehead was a stage veteran who worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company early on, as a replacement with Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett in the Broadway run of the revue Beyond the Fringe, and extensively in Canada. While there, he had a prominent single episode role in the 1974 CBC miniseries The National Dream: Building the Impossible Railway (with Gerard Parkes and Pat Galloway) as Lord Dufferin, the British governor general of Canada. His Broadway credits include starring as Sherlock Holmes in The Crucifer of Blood, playing Colonel Pickering and then taking over as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, Noises Off, and Camelot. 
By the 1980s, Whitehead was a familiar face in American film and TV, usually whenever a pompous or stuffy Englishman was called for. He recurred on Mad About You as neighbor Hal, appeared twice each on The West Wing and Friends, and guest starred on Desperate Housewives, Frasier, Law & Order, Murder, She Wrote, The A-Team, Magnum, P.I., and 3rd Rock from the Sun. Films include Back to School (as the condescending economics professor), Jumpin' Jack Flash (with Whoopi Goldberg), The Adventures of Huck Finn (with Robbie Coltrane), Boris and Natasha, My Boyfriend's Back (with Austin Pendleton and Cloris Leachman), and Kate & Leopold (with Hugh Jackman). He lent his distinctive British voice to cartoons including Rover Dangerfield, Wakko's Wish, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, and Garfield and Friends. 
Apart from acting, he co-wrote English language stage adaptations of three French farces by Georges Feydeau.
==External links==
* Internet Broadway Database
* IMDb
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