Jonathan Hyde
Born: 1948-05-21 in Brisbane, Australia
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
2024
- The Brutalist as Leslie Woodrow
- Hamlet as Claudius
- Sebastian as Nicholas
2023
- Doctor Jekyll as Henry Jekyll
2021
- Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans as Strickler (voice)
2020
- All Creatures Great & Small as General Beauvoir
2018
- A Very English Scandal as David Napley
2017
- Breathe as Dr. Entwistle
2016
- The Crown as Duke of Norfolk
- Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia as Mr. Strickler (voice)
- First Born as Alistair
- Tokyo Trial as President Sir William Webb
2015
- Crimson Peak as Ogilvie
2014
- The Strain as Eldritch Palmer
2013
- Endeavour as Sir Edmund Sloan
- Isaac Newton: The Last Magician
2008
- King Lear as Earl of Kent
2006
- The Contract as Turner
- The Curse of King Tut's Tomb as Morgan Sinclair
- Land of the Blind as Smith
- Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire as Hanan
- The Curse of King Tut's Tomb as Morgan Sinclair
2004
- Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking as George Pentney
2003
- Stealing Bess as Edwin Snipe
- Dinotopia 6: The Exit as Mayor Waldo
- Dinotopia 5: The Virus as Mayor Waldo
- Dinotopia 4: New Horizons as Mayor Waldo
2002
- Foyle's War as Colonel Galt
- Spooks as Ilya Gavrik
- Dinotopia 2: The Temptation as Mayor waldo
- Dinotopia 3: The Election as Mayor waldo
- Dinotopia
2001
- Attila as Felix
- Princess of Thieves as Prince John
- Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story as Dussan
- The Tailor of Panama as Cavendish
2000
- Eisenstein as Meyerhold
- The Prince and the Pauper as Lord Hertford
1999
- The Mummy as Allen Chamberlain
- Joan of Arc as The Duke of Bedford
1998
- Beyond Titanic as Self
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Frank Webster
- Titanic as Bruce Ismay
- Anaconda as Warren Westridge
1994
- Ri¢hie Ri¢h as Herbert Cadbury
- Cadfael as Godfrid Piccard
- Deadly Advice as George Joseph Smith
- Being Human as Francisco
- I Spy Returns as Cesar Baroodi
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes as Culverton Smith
- The Leper of St. Giles
1993
- Peak Practice as Dr. Stuart Mosely
1992
- A Touch of Frost
- HBO First Look as Self
1991
- Children of the North as Colonel Shrapnell
- The War That Never Ends as Corinthian Representative
- The Great Air Race as Jim Mollison
1990
- The Plot to Kill Hitler as Joseph Goebbels
1989
- Sitting Targets as Vincent Stott
- Fellow Traveller as 'Sheriff of Nottingham'
- Shadow of the Noose as Edward Marshall Hall
1987
- The Death of the Heart as St. Quentin Miller
1986
- Caravaggio as Baglione
- Lovejoy as Jonathan Wilsher
1985
- Poppyland as Wilson Barrett
- A.D. as Tigellinus
- An Indecent Obsession as Neil Parkinson
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Culverton Smith
- Lace as Paul
1980
- Hamlet as Rosencrantz
1979
- Phoelix as Napier
1977
- The Professionals as Tommy