Jonathan Hyde
Acting • Born 1948-05-21
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
77 credits
The Mummy
Movie • 1999
Allen Chamberlain
The Contract
Movie • 2006
Turner
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Movie • 1994
Herbert Cadbury
Caravaggio
Movie • 1986
Baglione
Princess of Thieves
Movie • 2001
Prince John
Jumanji
Movie • 1995
Samuel Alan Parrish / Van Pelt
Anaconda
Movie • 1997
Warren Westridge
The Prince and the Pauper
Movie • 2000
Lord Hertford
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Movie • 2004
George Pentney
King Lear
Movie • 2008
Earl of Kent
The Brutalist
Movie • 2024
Leslie Woodrow
Dinotopia 3: The Election
Movie • 2002
Mayor waldo
Dinotopia 2: The Temptation
Movie • 2002
Mayor waldo
Dinotopia 4: New Horizons
Movie • 2003
Mayor Waldo
Dinotopia 5: The Virus
Movie • 2003
Mayor Waldo
Dinotopia 6: The Exit
Movie • 2003
Mayor Waldo
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Movie • 1990
Joseph Goebbels
Sitting Targets
Movie • 1989
Vincent Stott
I Spy Returns
Movie • 1994
Cesar Baroodi
An Indecent Obsession
Movie • 1985
Neil Parkinson
Hamlet
Movie • 2024
Claudius
Sebastian
Movie • 2024
Nicholas
Land of the Blind
Movie • 2006
Smith
Isaac Newton: The Last Magician
Movie • 2013
Doctor Jekyll
Movie • 2023
Henry Jekyll
Stealing Bess
Movie • 2003
Edwin Snipe
The War That Never Ends
Movie • 1991
Corinthian Representative
Crimson Peak
Movie • 2015
Ogilvie
Being Human
Movie • 1994
Francisco
First Born
Movie • 2016
Alistair
The Tailor of Panama
Movie • 2001
Cavendish
Eisenstein
Movie • 2000
Meyerhold
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Movie • 2006
Morgan Sinclair
Breathe
Movie • 2017
Dr. Entwistle
Deadly Advice
Movie • 1994
George Joseph Smith
Hamlet
Movie • 1980
Rosencrantz
Poppyland
Movie • 1985
Wilson Barrett
Children of the North
Movie • 1991
Colonel Shrapnell
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Movie • 2021
Strickler (voice)
The Death of the Heart
Movie • 1987
St. Quentin Miller
Fellow Traveller
Movie • 1989
'Sheriff of Nottingham'
Phoelix
Movie • 1979
Napier
Bliss
Movie • 1995
Dr. Oliver Pleasance
Beyond Titanic
Movie • 1998
Self
Titanic
Movie • 1997
Bruce Ismay
The Leper of St. Giles
Movie • 1994
Sophia
Movie • 2025
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Frank Webster
Joan of Arc
TV • 1999
The Duke of Bedford
A Touch of Frost
TV • 1992
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
Culverton Smith
Lovejoy
TV • 1986
Jonathan Wilsher
Dinotopia
TV • 2002
Cadfael
TV • 1994
Godfrid Piccard
The Strain
TV • 2014
Eldritch Palmer
Peak Practice
TV • 1993
Dr. Stuart Mosely
HBO First Look
TV • 1992
Self
Endeavour
TV • 2013
Sir Edmund Sloan
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
TV • 2016
Mr. Strickler (voice)
A.D.
TV • 1985
Tigellinus
Attila
TV • 2001
Felix
Lace
TV • 1984
Paul
Tokyo Trial
TV • 2016
President Sir William Webb
The Crown
TV • 2016
Duke of Norfolk
A Very English Scandal
TV • 2018
David Napley
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
TV • 2001
Dussan
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
TV • 2006
Morgan Sinclair
Spooks
TV • 2002
Ilya Gavrik
Dinotopia
TV • 2002
Mayor Waldo
The Professionals
TV • 1977
Tommy
Shadow of the Noose
TV • 1989
Sir Edward Marshall Hall
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
TV • 2006
Hanan
Foyle's War
TV • 2002
Colonel Galt
All Creatures Great & Small
TV • 2020
General Beauvoir
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1994
Culverton Smith
The Great Air Race
TV • 1991
Jim Mollison
Supernatural
TV • 1977
Amadeus