Jonathan Hyde

Jonathan Hyde
Born	21 May 1948 (1948-05-21) Brisbane, Australia
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1974–present
Spouse	Isobel Buchanan
Website
http://www.jonathanhyde.net

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.

Early life

Hyde was born in Brisbane, Queensland to an average middle class family.^{[citation needed]}

Career

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, The Mummy, 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.

In the final series of BBC's popular series Spooks, Hyde plays Ilya Gavrik, a Russian Minister.

Hyde will appear as Lionel Logue in the UK touring production of The King's Speech in 2012.

Personal Life

Hyde is married to Scottish soprano Isobel Buchanan. The couple have two daughters one is a actress known as Georgia King.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
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	TV Movie
2001	Attila	Flavius Felix	TV miniseries
2001	The Tailor of Panama	Cavendish
	Princess of Thieves	Prince John
2002	Vacuums	Edwin Snipe
2004	Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking	George Pentney	TV Movie
2006	The Curse of King Tut's Tomb	Morgan Sinclair
	The Contract	Turner
	Land of the Blind	Smith
2007	The Seagull	Dorn
2008	King Lear	Kent	TV Movie
2011	Spooks	Ilya Gavrik	Series 10

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

• • 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 (Three Sixty Entertainment) (Neverland Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, 2009).

External links

• Jonathan Hyde at the Internet Movie Database
• Jonathan Hyde at AllRovi