Jonathan Hyde
Acting
Born 1948-05-21
Brisbane, Australia
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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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Filmography
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Acting
59 credits
Midsomer Murders
The Crown
Titanic
The Strain
Sherlock Holmes
A Touch of Frost
The Mummy
All Creatures Great & Small
Endeavour
Foyle's War
The Brutalist
Spooks
Peak Practice
The Professionals
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
Crimson Peak
Anaconda
HBO First Look
Lovejoy
Cadfael
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Breathe
A Very English Scandal
A.D.
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Attila
The Contract
Jumanji
Lace
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Supernatural
Joan of Arc
The Tailor of Panama
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Tokyo Trial
Princess of Thieves
Shadow of the Noose
King Lear
Sebastian
Caravaggio
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
Being Human
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Beyond Titanic
Land of the Blind
Dinotopia 2: The Temptation
The Great Air Race
Poppyland
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Deadly Advice
Tokyo Trial
The Prince and the Pauper
Hamlet
An Indecent Obsession
Dinotopia 4: New Horizons
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Hamlet
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