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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 21, 1948
Place of Birth:
Brisbane, Australia
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Jonathan Hyde
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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | The Brutalist | Leslie Woodrow |
| 2024 | Hamlet | Claudius |
| 2024 | Sebastian | Nicholas |
| 2023 | Doctor Jekyll | |
| 2021 | Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans | Strickler (voice) |
| 2017 | Breathe | Dr. Entwistle |
| 2016 | First Born | Alistair |
| 2015 | Crimson Peak | Ogilvie |
| 2013 | Isaac Newton: The Last Magician | |
| 2008 | King Lear | Earl of Kent |
| 2006 | The Contract | Turner |
| 2006 | Land of the Blind | Smith |
| 2006 | The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | Morgan Sinclair |
| 2004 | Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking | George Pentney |
| 2003 | Dinotopia 4: New Horizons | Mayor Waldo |
| 2003 | Dinotopia 5: The Virus | Mayor Waldo |
| 2003 | Dinotopia 6: The Exit | Mayor Waldo |
| 2003 | Stealing Bess | Edwin Snipe |
| 2002 | Dinotopia 3: The Election | Mayor waldo |
| 2002 | Dinotopia 2: The Temptation | Mayor waldo |
| 2001 | Princess of Thieves | Prince John |
| 2001 | The Tailor of Panama | Cavendish |
| 2000 | The Prince and the Pauper | Lord Hertford |
| 2000 | Eisenstein | Meyerhold |
| 1999 | The Mummy | Allen Chamberlain |
| 1998 | Beyond Titanic | Self |
| 1997 | Anaconda | Warren Westridge |
| 1997 | Titanic | Bruce Ismay |
| 1997 | Heart of the Ocean: The Making of Titanic | Self / J. Bruce Ismay |
| 1995 | Jumanji | Samuel Alan Parrish / Van Pelt |
| 1995 | Bliss | Dr. Oliver Pleasance |
| 1994 | Ri¢hie Ri¢h | Herbert Cadbury |
| 1994 | I Spy Returns | Cesar Baroodi |
| 1994 | Being Human | Francisco |
| 1994 | Deadly Advice | George Joseph Smith |
| 1991 | The War That Never Ends | Corinthian Representative |
| 1991 | Children of the North | Colonel Shrapnell |
| 1990 | The Plot to Kill Hitler | Joseph Goebbels |
| 1989 | Sitting Targets | Vincent Stott |
| 1989 | Fellow Traveller | 'Sheriff of Nottingham' |
| 1987 | The Death of the Heart | St. Quentin Miller |
| 1986 | Caravaggio | Baglione |
| 1985 | An Indecent Obsession | Neil Parkinson |
| 1985 | Poppyland | Wilson Barrett |
| 1980 | Hamlet | Rosencrantz |
| 1979 | Phoelix | Napier |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | A Very English Scandal | David Napley |
| 2016 | Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia | Mr. Strickler (voice) |
| 2016 | Tokyo Trial | President Sir William Webb |
| 2016 | The Crown | Duke of Norfolk |
| 2014 | The Strain | Eldritch Palmer |
| 2013 | Endeavour | Sir Edmund Sloan |
| 2012 | Honest Trailers | Bruce Ismay (archive footage) |
| 2006 | The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | Morgan Sinclair |
| 2006 | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Hanan |
| 2002 | Dinotopia | |
| 2002 | Spooks | Ilya Gavrik |
| 2002 | Dinotopia | Mayor Waldo |
| 2002 | Foyle's War | Colonel Galt |
| 2001 | Attila | Felix |
| 2001 | Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story | Dussan |
| 1999 | Joan of Arc | The Duke of Bedford |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Frank Webster |
| 1994 | Cadfael | Godfrid Piccard |
| 1993 | Peak Practice | Dr. Stuart Mosely |
| 1992 | A Touch of Frost | |
| 1992 | HBO First Look | Self |
| 1989 | Shadow of the Noose | Edward Marshall Hall |
| 1986 | Lovejoy | Jonathan Wilsher |
| 1985 | A.D. | Tigellinus |
| 1984 | Sherlock Holmes | Culverton Smith |
| 1984 | Lace | Paul |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Rosencrantz |
| 1977 | The Professionals | Tommy |