Jonathan Hyde
Known For
Acting
Born
1948-05-21 in Brisbane, Australia
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.
Most Known For
Midsomer Murders
as Frank Webster
The Crown
as Duke of Norfolk
Titanic
as Bruce Ismay
Endeavour
as Sir Edmund Sloan
The Strain
as Eldritch Palmer
Foyle's War
as Colonel Galt
All Creatures Great & Small
as General Beauvoir
Sherlock Holmes
as Culverton Smith
Spooks
as Ilya Gavrik
Peak Practice
as Dr. Stuart Mosely
The Mummy
as Allen Chamberlain
The Professionals
as Tommy
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
as Mr. Strickler (voice)
A Touch of Frost
HBO First Look
as Self
Anaconda
as Warren Westridge
Cadfael
as Godfrid Piccard
The Brutalist
as Leslie Woodrow
Lovejoy
as Jonathan Wilsher
Crimson Peak
as Ogilvie