Jonathan Hyde
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 21, 1948 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- Brisbane, Australia
- Credits
- 80
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
Ink
2026Movie
Sir Alick McKay
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
2026Movie
Sir Douglas Weatherford (voice)
Sophia
2025Movie
Anthony
The Brutalist
2024Movie
Leslie Woodrow
Sebastian
2024Movie
Nicholas
Hamlet
2024Movie
Claudius
Doctor Jekyll
2023Movie
Henry Jekyll
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
2021Movie
Strickler (voice)
All Creatures Great & Small
2020TV
General Beauvoir
A Very English Scandal
2018TV
David Napley
Breathe
2017Movie
Dr. Entwistle
Tokyo Trial
2017Movie
President Sir William Webb
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
2016TV
Mr. Strickler (voice)
Tokyo Trial
2016TV
President Sir William Webb
The Crown
2016TV
Duke of Norfolk
First Born
2016Movie
Alistair
Crimson Peak
2015Movie
Ogilvie
The Strain
2014TV
Eldritch Palmer
Endeavour
2013TV
Sir Edmund Sloan
Isaac Newton: The Last Magician
2013Movie
King Lear
2008Movie
Earl of Kent
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006TV
Hanan
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
2006TV
Morgan Sinclair
Land of the Blind
2006Movie
Smith
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
2006Movie
Morgan Sinclair
The Contract
2006Movie
Turner
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004Movie
George Pentney
Dinotopia 6: The Exit
2003Movie
Mayor Waldo
Dinotopia 5: The Virus
2003Movie
Mayor Waldo
Dinotopia 4: New Horizons
2003Movie
Mayor Waldo
Stealing Bess
2003Movie
Edwin Snipe
Dinotopia 3: The Election
2002Movie
Mayor waldo
Dinotopia 2: The Temptation
2002Movie
Mayor waldo
Dinotopia
2002TV
Mayor Waldo
Foyle's War
2002TV
Colonel Galt
Spooks
2002TV
Ilya Gavrik
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001TV
Dussan
Princess of Thieves
2001Movie
Prince John
The Tailor of Panama
2001Movie
Cavendish
Attila
2001TV
Felix
The Prince and the Pauper
2000Movie
Lord Hertford
Eisenstein
2000Movie
Meyerhold
Joan of Arc
1999TV
The Duke of Bedford
The Mummy
1999Movie
Allen Chamberlain
Beyond Titanic
1998Movie
Self
Titanic
1997Movie
Bruce Ismay
Anaconda
1997Movie
Warren Westridge
Midsomer Murders
1997TV
Frank Webster
Jumanji
1995Movie
Van Pelt / Sam Parrish
Bliss
1995Movie
Dr. Oliver Pleasance
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
1994Movie
Cadbury
The Leper of St. Giles
1994Movie
Cadfael
1994TV
Godfrid Piccard
Being Human
1994Movie
Francisco
Deadly Advice
1994Movie
George Joseph Smith
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1994TV
Culverton Smith
I Spy Returns
1994Movie
Cesar Baroodi
Peak Practice
1993TV
Dr. Stuart Mosely
A Touch of Frost
1992TV
Dr Keith Michaelson
HBO First Look
1992TV
Self
Children of the North
1991Movie
Colonel Shrapnell
The Great Air Race
1991TV
Jim Mollison
The War That Never Ends
1991Movie
Corinthian Representative
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990Movie
Joseph Goebbels
Fellow Traveller
1989Movie
'Sheriff of Nottingham'
Sitting Targets
1989Movie
Vincent Stott
Shadow of the Noose
1989TV
Sir Edward Marshall Hall
The Death of the Heart
1987Movie
St. Quentin Miller
Caravaggio
1986Movie
Baglione
Lovejoy
1986TV
Jonathan Wilsher
An Indecent Obsession
1985Movie
Neil Parkinson
A.D.
1985TV
Tigellinus
Poppyland
1985Movie
Wilson Barrett
Sherlock Holmes
1984TV
Culverton Smith
Lace
1984TV
Paul
Hamlet
1980Movie
Rosencrantz
Phoelix
1979Movie
Napier
Thomas & Sarah
1979TV
Charles
The Professionals
1977TV
Tommy
Supernatural
1977TV
Amadeus