Jonathan Hyde

Jonathan Hyde

Birthday: 1948-05-21

Place of birth: Brisbane, Australia

Also known as: Jonathan van Hyde, جاناتان هاید

imdb_id: nm0404993

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.

Played in movies:

The Death of the Heart

Score: 8.0

Titanic

Score: 7.9

Beyond Titanic

Score: 7.7

Hamlet

Score: 7.6

Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

Score: 7.5

Breathe

Score: 7.5

Jumanji

Score: 7.2

Children of the North

Score: 7.0

The Brutalist

Score: 7.0

The Mummy

Score: 7.0

Crimson Peak

Score: 6.7

King Lear

Score: 6.7

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

Score: 6.4

Sebastian

Score: 6.2

Dinotopia 3: The Election

Score: 6.2

The Prince and the Pauper

Score: 6.2

Caravaggio

Score: 6.1

Hamlet

Score: 6.1

Dinotopia 2: The Temptation

Score: 6.1

Princess of Thieves

Score: 6.1

Dinotopia 5: The Virus

Score: 6.1

Dinotopia 4: New Horizons

Score: 6.1

The Plot to Kill Hitler

Score: 6.0

The Tailor of Panama

Score: 6.0

Isaac Newton: The Last Magician

Score: 6.0

Ri¢hie Ri¢h

Score: 5.9

Dinotopia 6: The Exit

Score: 5.9

Land of the Blind

Score: 5.8

The Contract

Score: 5.7

Eisenstein

Score: 5.5

First Born

Score: 5.4

Anaconda

Score: 5.2

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

Score: 5.1

Being Human

Score: 5.1

Doctor Jekyll

Score: 4.9

Deadly Advice

Score: 4.6

An Indecent Obsession

Score: 4.5

Stealing Bess

Score: 4.3

Fellow Traveller

Score: 4.0

I Spy Returns

Score: 4.0

The War That Never Ends

Score: 1.0

The Great Air Race

Score: 0.0

Bliss

Score: 0.0

Phoelix

Score: 0.0

Poppyland

Score: 0.0

Sitting Targets

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia

Score: 8.4

The Crown

Score: 8.2

Endeavour

Score: 8.1

Sherlock Holmes

Score: 8.1

Foyle's War

Score: 7.9

Spooks

Score: 7.7

A Touch of Frost

Score: 7.5

Midsomer Murders

Score: 7.5

The Professionals

Score: 7.5

The Strain

Score: 7.5

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

Score: 7.4

Cadfael

Score: 7.4

Lovejoy

Score: 7.4

Lace

Score: 7.1

A Very English Scandal

Score: 7.1

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Score: 6.8

Tokyo Trial

Score: 6.7

Joan of Arc

Score: 6.6

Attila

Score: 6.3

Peak Practice

Score: 6.1

A.D.

Score: 5.1

Dinotopia

Score: 5.0

Dinotopia

Score: 5.0

HBO First Look

Score: 4.9

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

Score: 2.5

Shadow of the Noose

Score: 0.0