Cast & creator
Jonathan Hyde
Best known for Midsomer Murders, The Crown, Peak Practice
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.
Also known as: Jonathan van Hyde, جاناتان هاید, Jonathan Stephen Gehring Hyde
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television credits
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1977–2026 · acting roles
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Filmography (81)
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Midsomer Murders
Frank Webster
1997
The Crown
Duke of Norfolk
2016
Peak Practice
Dr. Stuart Mosely
1993
The Strain
Eldritch Palmer
2014
Spooks
Ilya Gavrik
2002
Sherlock Holmes
Culverton Smith
1984
Titanic
Bruce Ismay
1997
All Creatures Great & Small
General Beauvoir
2020
The Brutalist
Leslie Woodrow
2024
The Professionals
Tommy
1977
A Touch of Frost
Dr Keith Michaelson
1992
Endeavour
Sir Edmund Sloan
2013
Foyle's War
Colonel Galt
2002
The Mummy
Allen Chamberlain
1999
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
Mr. Strickler (voice)
2016
Lovejoy
Jonathan Wilsher
1986
Cadfael
Godfrid Piccard
1994
HBO First Look
Self
1992
Crimson Peak
Ogilvie
2015
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Hanan
2006
The Tailor of Panama
Cavendish
2001
Anaconda
Warren Westridge
1997
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Cadbury
1994
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Strickler (voice)
2021
A Very English Scandal
David Napley
2018
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Culverton Smith
1994
A.D.
Tigellinus
1985
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Dussan
2001
Lace
Paul
1984
Thomas & Sarah
Charles
1979
Supernatural
Amadeus
1977
Attila
Felix
2001
Breathe
Dr. Entwistle
2017
Joan of Arc
The Duke of Bedford
1999
The Contract
Turner
2006
Shadow of the Noose
Sir Edward Marshall Hall
1989
Jumanji
Van Pelt / Sam Parrish
1995
Tokyo Trial
President Sir William Webb
2016
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Morgan Sinclair
2006
Land of the Blind
Smith
2006
Ink
Sir Alick McKay
2026
Caravaggio
Baglione
1986
Sophia
Anthony
2025
The Prince and the Pauper
Lord Hertford
2000
Princess of Thieves
Prince John
2001
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Morgan Sinclair
2006
Being Human
Francisco
1994
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
Sir Douglas Weatherford (voice)
2026
Sebastian
Nicholas
2024
The Great Air Race
Jim Mollison
1991
Doctor Jekyll
Henry Jekyll
2023
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
George Pentney
2004
Dinotopia 2: The Temptation
Mayor waldo
2002
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Joseph Goebbels
1990
King Lear
Earl of Kent
2008
Fellow Traveller
'Sheriff of Nottingham'
1989
Beyond Titanic
Self
1998
Children of the North
Colonel Shrapnell
1991
Dinotopia 4: New Horizons
Mayor Waldo
2003
I Spy Returns
Cesar Baroodi
1994Poppyland
Wilson Barrett
1985
Dinotopia 6: The Exit
Mayor Waldo
2003
Dinotopia 3: The Election
Mayor waldo
2002
Dinotopia 5: The Virus
Mayor Waldo
2003
The War That Never Ends
Corinthian Representative
1991
The Leper of St. Giles
1994
The Death of the Heart
St. Quentin Miller
1987
Deadly Advice
George Joseph Smith
1994
An Indecent Obsession
Neil Parkinson
1985
Hamlet
Claudius
2024
Tokyo Trial
President Sir William Webb
2017
Isaac Newton: The Last Magician
2013
First Born
Alistair
2016
Stealing Bess
Edwin Snipe
2003
Hamlet
Rosencrantz
1980
Eisenstein
Meyerhold
2000
Sitting Targets
Vincent Stott
1989
Bliss
Dr. Oliver Pleasance
1995
Phoelix
Napier
1979
Dinotopia
2002Dinotopia
Mayor Waldo
2002