Jonathan Hyde
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 21, 1948 (age 78)
- Birthplace
- Brisbane, Australia
Biography
Jonathan Hyde (born 21 May 1948) is an Australian-born English actor, well known for his roles as J. Bruce Ismay, the managing director of the White Star Line in Titanic, Egyptologist Allen Chamberlain in The Mummy and Sam Parrish/Van Pelt, the hunter in Jumanji. He is married to the Scottish soprano Isobel Buchanan. They have two daughters, one of which is the actress Georgia King. Hyde was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Among other roles, he played Ferdinand in a 1985 production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and is an Associate Member there. He was also an original cast member of Not the Nine O'Clock News, the first series of which was pulled from broadcast because of the General Election of 1979. Hyde has been in numerous films including The Contract, The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, Land of the Blind, The Tailor of Panama, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, Eisenstein, Anaconda and Richie Rich. He appeared in the 1989 BBC miniseries Shadow of the Noose in which he played the famous barrister Edward Marshall Hall. He has also appeared in several television mysteries, including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett, and Midsomer Murders. In 2007, Hyde played Dr. Dorn in Chekhov's The Seagull and the Earl of Kent in King Lear for the RSC in a repertory company that included Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Romola Garai, William Gaunt and Sylvester McCoy. Both plays toured together internationally, before taking up residence in the New London Theatre. The final performance was on 12 January 2008. He reprised his role of Kent in the 2008 television film of King Lear. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonathan Hyde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
Movie · as Sir Douglas Weatherford (voice)
Ink
Movie · as Sir Alick McKay
Sophia
Movie · as Anthony
The Brutalist
Movie · as Leslie Woodrow
Hamlet
Movie · as Claudius
Sebastian
Movie · as Nicholas
Doctor Jekyll
Movie · as Henry Jekyll
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Movie · as Strickler (voice)
All Creatures Great & Small
TV · as General Beauvoir · 2 eps
A Very English Scandal
TV · as David Napley · 3 eps
Breathe
Movie · as Dr. Entwistle
Tokyo Trial
Movie · as President Sir William Webb
First Born
Movie · as Alistair
Tokyo Trial
TV · as President Sir William Webb · 4 eps
The Crown
TV · as Duke of Norfolk · 1 ep
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
TV · as Mr. Strickler (voice) · 42 eps
Crimson Peak
Movie · as Ogilvie
The Strain
TV · as Eldritch Palmer · 46 eps
Isaac Newton: The Last Magician
Movie
Endeavour
TV · as Sir Edmund Sloan · 1 ep
King Lear
Movie · as Earl of Kent
The Contract
Movie · as Turner
Land of the Blind
Movie · as Smith
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Movie · as Morgan Sinclair
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
TV · as Morgan Sinclair · 2 eps
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
TV · as Hanan · 1 ep
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Movie · as George Pentney
Dinotopia 6: The Exit
Movie · as Mayor Waldo
Dinotopia 4: New Horizons
Movie · as Mayor Waldo
Dinotopia 5: The Virus
Movie · as Mayor Waldo
Stealing Bess
Movie · as Edwin Snipe
Dinotopia 3: The Election
Movie · as Mayor waldo
Dinotopia 2: The Temptation
Movie · as Mayor waldo
Dinotopia
TV · as Mayor Waldo
Spooks
TV · as Ilya Gavrik · 6 eps
Foyle's War
TV · as Colonel Galt · 1 ep
Princess of Thieves
Movie · as Prince John
The Tailor of Panama
Movie · as Cavendish
Attila
TV · as Felix · 2 eps
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
TV · as Dussan · 2 eps
The Prince and the Pauper
Movie · as Lord Hertford
Eisenstein
Movie · as Meyerhold
The Mummy
Movie · as Allen Chamberlain
Joan of Arc
TV · as The Duke of Bedford · 2 eps
Beyond Titanic
Movie · as Self
Anaconda
Movie · as Warren Westridge
Titanic
Movie · as Bruce Ismay
Midsomer Murders
TV · as Frank Webster · 1 ep
Jumanji
Movie · as Van Pelt / Sam Parrish
Bliss
Movie · as Dr. Oliver Pleasance
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Movie · as Cadbury
I Spy Returns
Movie · as Cesar Baroodi
Being Human
Movie · as Francisco
Deadly Advice
Movie · as George Joseph Smith
The Leper of St. Giles
Movie
Cadfael
TV · as Godfrid Piccard · 1 ep
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
TV · as Culverton Smith · 1 ep
Peak Practice
TV · as Dr. Stuart Mosely · 1 ep
A Touch of Frost
TV · as Dr Keith Michaelson · 1 ep
HBO First Look
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The War That Never Ends
Movie · as Corinthian Representative
Children of the North
Movie · as Colonel Shrapnell
The Great Air Race
TV · as Jim Mollison · 2 eps
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Movie · as Joseph Goebbels
Chancer
TV · as Paisley · 1 ep
Sitting Targets
Movie · as Vincent Stott
Fellow Traveller
Movie · as 'Sheriff of Nottingham'
Shadow of the Noose
TV · as Sir Edward Marshall Hall · 8 eps
The Death of the Heart
Movie · as St. Quentin Miller
Caravaggio
Movie · as Baglione
Lovejoy
TV · as Jonathan Wilsher · 1 ep
An Indecent Obsession
Movie · as Neil Parkinson
Poppyland
Movie · as Wilson Barrett
A.D.
TV · as Tigellinus · 1 ep
Sherlock Holmes
TV · as Culverton Smith · 1 ep
Lace
TV · as Paul · 2 eps
Hamlet
Movie · as Rosencrantz
Phoelix
Movie · as Napier
Thomas & Sarah
TV · as Charles · 1 ep
The Professionals
TV · as Tommy · 1 ep
Supernatural
TV · as Amadeus · 1 ep