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Jonathan Hyde
Brisbane, Australia
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, Egyptolo…
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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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2026
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Movie Sir Alick McKay
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2026
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
Movie Sir Douglas Weatherford (voice)
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2025
Sophia
Movie
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2024
The Brutalist
Movie Leslie Woodrow
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2024
Sebastian
Movie Nicholas
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2024
Hamlet
Movie Claudius
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2023
Doctor Jekyll
Movie Henry Jekyll
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2021
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Movie Strickler (voice)
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2020
All Creatures Great & Small
TV show General Beauvoir
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2018
A Very English Scandal
TV show David Napley
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2017
Breathe
Movie Dr. Entwistle
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2017
Tokyo Trial
Movie President Sir William Webb
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2016
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
TV show Mr. Strickler (voice)
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2016
Tokyo Trial
TV show President Sir William Webb
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2016
The Crown
TV show Duke of Norfolk
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2016
First Born
Movie Alistair
More credits
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2015
Crimson Peak
Movie Ogilvie
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2014
The Strain
TV show Eldritch Palmer
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2013
Endeavour
TV show Sir Edmund Sloan
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2010
Dinotopia
TV show Bürgermeister Waldo Saville
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2008
King Lear
Movie Earl of Kent
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2006
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
TV show Hanan
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2006
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
TV show Morgan Sinclair
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2006
Land of the Blind
Movie Smith
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2006
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Movie Morgan Sinclair
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2006
The Contract
Movie Turner
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2004
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Movie George Pentney
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2003
Dinotopia 6: The Exit
Movie Mayor Waldo
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2003
Dinotopia 5: The Virus
Movie Mayor Waldo
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2003
Dinotopia 4: New Horizons
Movie Mayor Waldo
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2003
Stealing Bess
Movie Edwin Snipe
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2002
Dinotopia 3: The Election
Movie Mayor waldo
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2002
Dinotopia 2: The Temptation
Movie Mayor waldo
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2002
Dinotopia
TV show
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2002
Foyle's War
TV show Colonel Galt
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2002
Spooks
TV show Ilya Gavrik
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2001
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
TV show Dussan
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2001
Princess of Thieves
Movie Prince John
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2001
The Tailor of Panama
Movie Cavendish
