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| Born | 21 May 1948 Brisbane, Queensland |
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Jonathan Hyde (born 21 May 1948) is an Australian-born British actor, well known for his roles as J. Bruce Ismay, the managing director of the White Star Line in Titanic, the Egyptologist 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 respected member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Among his many 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, Titanic, Anaconda and Richie Rich.
He appeared in the 1989 BBC mini-series 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 (TV series) starring Jeremy Brett, and Midsomer Murders.
In 2007, he 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 TV film of King Lear.
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Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
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| 1980 | Phoelix | Napier | |
| 1985 | An Indecent Obsession | Neil Parkinson | |
| 1986 | Caravaggio | Baglione | |
| 1993 | Being Human | Francisco | |
| Deadly Advice | George Joseph Smith | ||
| 1994 | Ri¢hie Ri¢h | Herbert Arthur Runcible Cadbury | |
| 1995 | Jumanji | Samuel Alan Parrish/Hunter Van Pelt | |
| 1997 | Titanic | J. Bruce Ismay | |
| Anaconda | Warren Westridge | ||
| 1999 | The Mummy | Dr. Allen Chamberlain | |
| 2000 | Eisenstein | Meyerhold | |
| 2000 | The Prince and the Pauper | Lord Hertford | |
| 2001 | Attila | Felix | TV miniseries |
| 2001 | The Tailor of Panama | Cavendish | |
| Princess of Thieves | Prince John | ||
| 2002 | Vacuums | Edwin Snipe | |
| 2006 | The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | Morgan Sinclair | |
| The Contract | Turner | ||
| Land of the Blind | Smith | ||
| 2008 | King Lear | Kent |
Theatre work
With the Glasgow Citizens
- Casanova in Tennessee Williams' Camino Real (1974)
- Aufidius in Coriolanus (1974)
- Mr President in Indians (1974)
- Slift in Saint Joan of the Stockyards (1974)
- De Sade in The De Sade Show (1975)
- the Cardinal in The Duchess of Malfi (1975)
- the Superintendent of Schools in The Government Inspector (1975)
- Polonius in Hamlet (1975)
- Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (1975)
- the Doctor in Woyzeck (1976)
- Rance in What the Butler Saw (1976)
- the Mother in Seven Deadly Sins (1976)
- Forlipopoli in Mirandolina (1976)
- Sprich in Masquerade (1976)
- Levka/Gabriel in Chinchilla (1977)
- Dorilant in The Country Wife (1977)
- Bartolo in Figaro (1977)
- Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (1977)
- Silvestra in Good Humoured Ladies (1979)
With the Royal Shakespeare Company
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- First Season (1980/81)
- Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (Ron Daniels, RST, Aldwych)
- Second Season (1982/83)
- Edgar in the Michael Gambon King Lear (Adrian Noble, RST, Barbican)
- Octavius in the Gambon/Helen Mirren Antony and Cleopatra (TOP, Pit)
- Oliver in As You Like It (Terry Hands, RST, 1980, Aldwych, 1981)
- Richmond in Richard III (Hands, RST, 1980, Aldwych, 1981)
- Aumerle in Richard II (Hands, RST, 1980, Aldwych, 1981)
- Tom Nightwork in The Swan Down Gloves (Ian Judge/Hands, RST, 1981, Aldwych, 1981-82)
- Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice (John Barton, RST, Aldwych, 1981)
- the Porter in Macbeth (Howard Davies, RST, 1982, Barbican, 1983)
- Laxton in The Roaring Girl (Barry Kyle, Barbican, 1983).
Return to Stratford as Associate Artist
- Vasques in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (David Leveaux, Swan, 1991)
- Face in The Alchemist (Sam Mendes, Swan)
- Brutus in Julius Caesar (Steven Pimlott, RST)
- Columbus in Richard Nelson's Columbus and the Discovery of Japan (John Caird, Barbican, 1992)
- Kent in King Lear and Dorn in The Seagull (Trevor Nunn, Courtyard and International Tour, 2007).
Other theatre work
- Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi (Philip Prowse, NT Lyttelton, 1985)
- Muldoon in The Real Inspector Hound (Tom Stoppard, NT Olivier, 1985)
- Mr Sneer in The Critic (Sheila Hancock, NT Olivier, 1985)
- Yasha in The Cherry Orchard (Mike Alfreds, NT Cottesloe, 1985)
- Valmont in Christopher Hampton's Les liaisons dangereuses (Davies, Ambassadors, 1987)
- the Doge of Venice in Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution (Ian McDiarmid, Almeida, 1990)
- the Count in Anouilh's The Rehearsal (McDiarmid, Almeida, 1990)
- Charles in Hanif Kureishi's Sleep With Me (NT Cottesloe, 1999)
- Creon opposite Tara Fitzgerald in Sophocles's Antigone (Declan Donnellan, Old Vic, 1999)
- Archie in Stoppard's Jumpers (David Leveaux, NT Lyttelton, 2003).
- Captain Hook in Peter Pan (Neverland Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, 2009).
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