Jonathan Hyde
Acting
Born: May 21, 1948 (age 78) · Brisbane, Australia
Highest Rated
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
Titanic
1997
Jumanji
1995
The Mummy
1999
Crimson Peak
2015
Anaconda
1997
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
1994
The Crown
2016
The Strain
2014
The Brutalist
2024
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
2016
Breathe
2017
The Contract
2006
Photos (1)
Movies (46)
Titanic
Bruce Ismay
The Brutalist
Leslie Woodrow
The Mummy
Allen Chamberlain
Anaconda
Warren Westridge
Crimson Peak
Ogilvie
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Cadbury
Breathe
Dr. Entwistle
The Tailor of Panama
Cavendish
Jumanji
Van Pelt / Sam Parrish
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Strickler (voice)
The Contract
Turner
Princess of Thieves
Prince John
Caravaggio
Baglione
Sebastian
Nicholas
Being Human
Francisco
King Lear
Earl of Kent
Children of the North
Colonel Shrapnell
Land of the Blind
Smith
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Morgan Sinclair
Tokyo Trial
President Sir William Webb
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
George Pentney
The Prince and the Pauper
Lord Hertford
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
Sir Douglas Weatherford (voice)
Dinotopia 2: The Temptation
Mayor waldo
An Indecent Obsession
Neil Parkinson
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Joseph Goebbels
Isaac Newton: The Last Magician
2013
The War That Never Ends
Corinthian Representative
Deadly Advice
George Joseph Smith
Hamlet
Claudius
Dinotopia 4: New Horizons
Mayor Waldo
Fellow Traveller
'Sheriff of Nottingham'
Doctor Jekyll
Henry Jekyll
Dinotopia 3: The Election
Mayor waldo
Stealing Bess
Edwin Snipe
First Born
Alistair
The Death of the Heart
St. Quentin Miller
I Spy Returns
Cesar Baroodi
Dinotopia 5: The Virus
Mayor Waldo
Hamlet
Rosencrantz
Eisenstein
Meyerhold
Sitting Targets
Vincent Stott
The Leper of St. Giles
1994
Phoelix
Napier
Dinotopia 6: The Exit
Mayor Waldo
Bliss
Dr. Oliver Pleasance
TV Shows (29)
Midsomer Murders
Frank Webster · 1 eps
The Crown
Duke of Norfolk · 1 eps
Foyle's War
Colonel Galt · 1 eps
The Strain
Eldritch Palmer · 46 eps
Spooks
Ilya Gavrik · 6 eps
Sherlock Holmes
Culverton Smith · 1 eps
A Touch of Frost
Dr Keith Michaelson · 1 eps
Peak Practice
Dr. Stuart Mosely · 1 eps
All Creatures Great & Small
General Beauvoir · 2 eps
The Professionals
Tommy · 1 eps
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
Mr. Strickler (voice) · 42 eps
Endeavour
Sir Edmund Sloan · 1 eps
Cadfael
Godfrid Piccard · 1 eps
Lovejoy
Jonathan Wilsher · 1 eps
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Culverton Smith · 1 eps
A Very English Scandal
David Napley · 3 eps
Lace
Paul · 2 eps
Joan of Arc
The Duke of Bedford · 2 eps
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Hanan · 1 eps
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Dussan · 2 eps
A.D.
Tigellinus · 1 eps
Attila
Felix · 2 eps
Supernatural
Amadeus · 1 eps
Tokyo Trial
President Sir William Webb · 4 eps
Shadow of the Noose
Sir Edward Marshall Hall · 8 eps
The Great Air Race
Jim Mollison · 2 eps
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Morgan Sinclair · 2 eps
Dinotopia
2002
Dinotopia
Mayor Waldo · 13 eps
