Jonathan Hyde

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonathan Hyde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

The Brutalist
2024
Leslie Woodrow
Hamlet
2024
Claudius
Sebastian
2024
Nicholas
Doctor Jekyll
2023
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
2021
Strickler (voice)
Breathe
2017
Dr. Entwistle
First Born
2016
Alistair
Crimson Peak
2015
Ogilvie
Isaac Newton: The Last Magician
2013
King Lear
2008
Earl of Kent
The Contract
2006
Turner
Land of the Blind
2006
Smith
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
2006
Morgan Sinclair
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
George Pentney
Dinotopia 6: The Exit
2003
Mayor Waldo
Dinotopia 4: New Horizons
2003
Mayor Waldo
Dinotopia 5: The Virus
2003
Mayor Waldo
Stealing Bess
2003
Edwin Snipe
Dinotopia 3: The Election
2002
Mayor waldo
Dinotopia 2: The Temptation
2002
Mayor waldo
Princess of Thieves
2001
Prince John
The Tailor of Panama
2001
Cavendish
The Prince and the Pauper
2000
Lord Hertford
Eisenstein
2000
Meyerhold
The Mummy
1999
Allen Chamberlain
Beyond Titanic
1998
Self
Anaconda
1997
Warren Westridge
Titanic
1997
Bruce Ismay
Heart of the Ocean: The Making of Titanic
1997
Self / J. Bruce Ismay
Jumanji
1995
Samuel Alan Parrish / Van Pelt
Bliss
1995
Dr. Oliver Pleasance
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
1994
Herbert Cadbury
I Spy Returns
1994
Cesar Baroodi
Being Human
1994
Francisco
Deadly Advice
1994
George Joseph Smith
The War That Never Ends
1991
Corinthian Representative
Children of the North
1991
Colonel Shrapnell
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
Joseph Goebbels
Sitting Targets
1989
Vincent Stott
Fellow Traveller
1989
'Sheriff of Nottingham'
The Death of the Heart
1987
St. Quentin Miller
Caravaggio
1986
Baglione
An Indecent Obsession
1985
Neil Parkinson
Phoelix
1979
Napier