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Paxton Whitehead
Highest Rated: 87% Back to School (1986)
Lowest Rated: 13% My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
Birthday: Oct 17, 1937
Birthplace: Kent, England, UK
A British character actor with extensive stage experience, Paxton Whitehead is most widely recognized as uptight academic Dr. Phillip Barbay from the hit 1986 comedy "Back to School." A veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Whitehead made his initial forays into American television during the 1980s and found film work with "Back to School" and other mainstream comedies of the era, including "Baby Boom." After starring in the short-lived sitcom "Marblehead Manor," Whitehead continued to work primarily in television, eventually appearing in the 1997 PBS miniseries "Liberty! The American Revolution." Less active in the new millennium, he had a notable supporting role in the 2001 romantic comedy "Kate & Leopold." Paxton Whitehead died on June 16, 2023 in Arlington, VA at the age of 85.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Aristocrat | Bob Wirtz (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 52% | 62% | Kate & Leopold | Uncle Millard (Character) | $47.1M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | The Duke | Basil Rathwood (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | London Suite | Dr. McMerlin (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Where Are My Children? | Unknown (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trick of the Eye | Deane (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 13% | 45% | My Boyfriend's Back | Judge In Heaven (Character) | $3.2M | 1993 |
| 75% | 50% | The Adventures of Huck Finn | Harvey Wilks (Character) | $23.8M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Boris and Natasha |
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- | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Nervous Ticks | Cheshire (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 17% | 56% | Rover Dangerfield | Count (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Child of Darkness, Child of Light | Father Rosetti (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Chips, the War Dog | Smythe (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 67% | 62% | Baby Boom | Center Instructor (Character) | $25.4M | 1987 |
| 30% | 58% | Jumpin' Jack Flash | Lord Malcolm Billings (Character) | $24.5M | 1986 |
| 87% | 68% | Back to School | Dr. Phillip Barbay (Character) | $89.2M | 1986 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72% | 88% | Desperate Housewives | Graham Hainsworth (Guest Star) | 2007 |
| 81% | 95% | The West Wing | Bernard Thatch (Guest Star) | 2000 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Drew Carey Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mad About You | First Hal (Guest Star) | 1992 1997-1999 |
| 78% | 93% | Friends | Mr. Waltham (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Early Edition | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| 95% | 94% | Frasier | Dr. Campbell (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ellen | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995-1996 |
| 29% | No Score Yet | Lush Life | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Simon | Duke Stone (Character) | 1995-1996 |
| 91% | 79% | Dinosaurs | Sir David Tushingham (Guest Voice) | 1992-1993 |
| 70% | No Score Yet | The Torkelsons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Captain Oliver (Guest Star) | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baby Boom | Dr. Whittaker (Guest Star) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The A-Team | Morgan (Guest Star) | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. | William Troubshaw (Guest Star) | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie Lawrence | Unknown (Guest Star) |