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