Acting · Brisbane, Australia · Born May 21, 1948
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.
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as Nicholas
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as Claudius
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as Henry Jekyll
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as Dr. Entwistle
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as Mr. Strickler (voice)
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as President Sir William Webb
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as Ogilvie
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as Eldritch Palmer
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as Sir Edmund Sloan
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as Earl of Kent
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as Hanan
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as Morgan Sinclair
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as Smith
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as Morgan Sinclair
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as Turner
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as George Pentney
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as Mayor Waldo
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as Mayor Waldo
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as Mayor Waldo
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as Edwin Snipe
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as Mayor waldo
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as Mayor waldo
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as Colonel Galt
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as Ilya Gavrik
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as Dussan
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as Prince John
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as Cavendish
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as Felix
MovieThe Prince and the Pauper
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as Lord Hertford
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as Meyerhold
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1999
as The Duke of Bedford
MovieThe Mummy
1999
as Allen Chamberlain
MovieBeyond Titanic
1998
as Self
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as Bruce Ismay
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as Warren Westridge
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as Frank Webster
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as Samuel Alan Parrish / Van Pelt
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as Dr. Oliver Pleasance
MovieRi¢hie Ri¢h
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as Herbert Cadbury
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as Godfrid Piccard
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as Francisco
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as George Joseph Smith
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as Culverton Smith
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as Cesar Baroodi
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as Dr. Stuart Mosely
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as Dr Keith Michaelson
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as Self
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as Colonel Shrapnell
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1991
as Jim Mollison
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as Corinthian Representative
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as Joseph Goebbels
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1989
as 'Sheriff of Nottingham'
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1989
as Vincent Stott
TVShadow of the Noose
1989
as Sir Edward Marshall Hall
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as St. Quentin Miller
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1986
as Baglione
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as Jonathan Wilsher
MovieAn Indecent Obsession
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as Neil Parkinson
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1985
as Tigellinus
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as Wilson Barrett
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1984
as Culverton Smith
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as Paul
MovieHamlet
1980
as Rosencrantz
MoviePhoelix
1979
as Napier
TVThe Professionals
1977
as Tommy
TVSupernatural
1977
as Amadeus
