Jonathan Hyde
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.
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Acted in
The Brutalist
2024
as Leslie Woodrow
Sebastian
2024
as Nicholas
Hamlet
2024
as Claudius
Doctor Jekyll
2023
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
2021
as Strickler (voice)
A Very English Scandal
2018
as David Napley
Breathe
2017
as Dr. Entwistle
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
2016
as Mr. Strickler (voice)
Tokyo Trial
2016
as President Sir William Webb
The Crown
2016
as Duke of Norfolk
First Born
2016
as Alistair
Crimson Peak
2015
as Ogilvie
The Strain
2014
as Eldritch Palmer
Endeavour
2013
as Sir Edmund Sloan
Isaac Newton: The Last Magician
2013
Honest Trailers
2012
as Bruce Ismay (archive footage)
King Lear
2008
as Earl of Kent
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
2006
as Morgan Sinclair
Land of the Blind
2006
as Smith
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
2006
as Morgan Sinclair
The Contract
2006
as Turner
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
as George Pentney
Dinotopia 6: The Exit
2003
as Mayor Waldo
Dinotopia 5: The Virus
2003
as Mayor Waldo
Dinotopia 4: New Horizons
2003
as Mayor Waldo
Stealing Bess
2003
as Edwin Snipe
Dinotopia 3: The Election
2002
as Mayor waldo
Dinotopia 2: The Temptation
2002
as Mayor waldo
Dinotopia
2002
Dinotopia
2002
as Mayor Waldo
Spooks
2002
as Ilya Gavrik
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
as Dussan
The Tailor of Panama
2001
as Cavendish
Princess of Thieves
2001
as Prince John
Attila
2001
as Felix
The Prince and the Pauper
2000
as Lord Hertford
Eisenstein
2000
as Meyerhold
Joan of Arc
1999
as The Duke of Bedford
The Mummy
1999
as Allen Chamberlain
Beyond Titanic
1998
as Self
Titanic
1997
as Bruce Ismay
Anaconda
1997
as Warren Westridge
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Frank Webster
Jumanji
1995
as Samuel Alan Parrish / Van Pelt
Bliss
1995
as Dr. Oliver Pleasance
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
1994
as Herbert Cadbury
Cadfael
1994
as Godfrid Piccard
Being Human
1994
as Francisco
Deadly Advice
1994
as George Joseph Smith
I Spy Returns
1994
as Cesar Baroodi
Peak Practice
1993
as Dr. Stuart Mosely
A Touch of Frost
1992
HBO First Look
1992
as Self
Children of the North
1991
as Colonel Shrapnell
The War That Never Ends
1991
as Corinthian Representative
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
as Joseph Goebbels
Fellow Traveller
1989
as 'Sheriff of Nottingham'
Sitting Targets
1989
as Vincent Stott
Shadow of the Noose
1989
as Edward Marshall Hall
The Death of the Heart
1987
as St. Quentin Miller
Caravaggio
1986
as Baglione
Lovejoy
1986
as Jonathan Wilsher
An Indecent Obsession
1985
as Neil Parkinson
A.D.
1985
as Tigellinus
Poppyland
1985
as Wilson Barrett
Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Culverton Smith
Lace
1984
as Paul
Hamlet
1980
as Rosencrantz
Phoelix
1979
as Napier
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
The Professionals
1977
as Tommy