
Jonathan Hyde
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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.251 |
Birthday | 1948-05-21 |
Place of Birth | Brisbane, Australia |
Also Known As | Jonathan van Hyde, جاناتان هاید, |

1999

The Mummy
6.9/9240
Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It ha...
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The Mummy

2006

The Contract
5.7/509
Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across...
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The Contract

1994

Ri¢hie Ri¢h
5.9/2291
Billionaire heir Richie Rich has it all, including Reggie Jackson as a batting coach and Claudia Schiffer as a personal trainer -- but no playmates. W...
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Ri¢hie Ri¢h

1986

Caravaggio
6.131/145
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous pai...
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Caravaggio

2001

Princess of Thieves
6.1/147
Sherwood forest has a courageous new hero - Gwyn, the daughter of Robin Hood. Possessing the cunning skills of her legendary father and the beauty and...
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Princess of Thieves

1995

Jumanji
7.2/10677
When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's b...
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Jumanji

1997

Anaconda
5.23/2525
A 'National Geographic' film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest — and deadlie...
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Anaconda

2000

The Prince and the Pauper
6.2/13
An adaptation of the classic, "The Prince and the Pauper" is the retelling of Edward Tudor and young Thomas Canty, two amazing look-alikes caught up i...
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The Prince and the Pauper

2004

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
6.4/37
The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr....
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

2008

King Lear
6.7/13
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youn...
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King Lear

2024

The Brutalist
7.065/810
Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life. On his own in a strange new country, a wealthy indus...
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The Brutalist

2002

Dinotopia 3: The Election
6.3/24
Ideas of progress turn the peaceful city into a congested metropolis. Could extinction follow? Not with the blessed event that occurs - the birth of a...
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Dinotopia 3: The Election

2003

Dinotopia 6: The Exit
6.1/6
When Karl is bitten by a venomous giant mosquito, his only chance for survival cannot be found on Dinotopia. David and LeSage must embark upon an incr...
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Dinotopia 6: The Exit

2003

Dinotopia 4: New Horizons
6.2/6
A hunter discovers the elixir of youth on Dinotopia - only to realize, along with LeSage, the price for getting younger. David becomes the ultimate de...
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Dinotopia 4: New Horizons

2002

Dinotopia 2: The Temptation
6.2/29
When a shipwreck is found on the shores of Dinotopia, Karl uses his newly discovered radio to make contact with the drifting survivors. But what will...
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Dinotopia 2: The Temptation

2003

Dinotopia 5: The Virus
6.2/6
Karl and Marion are endangered when life on the Earthfarm is threatened by a deadly virus and the culprit is the devious LeSage, who has her own speci...
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Dinotopia 5: The Virus

1990

The Plot to Kill Hitler
6/23
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German governm...
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The Plot to Kill Hitler

1989

Sitting Targets
0/0
Who has bought the house which is the home for a dozen flat dwellers? When the heating fails and a flat is violently repossessed, things begin to look...
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Sitting Targets

1994

I Spy Returns
4/5
Time passes and things change. So have Scott and Robinson. Scott has become a college professor and Robinson holds a high enough position with the S.S...
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I Spy Returns

1985

An Indecent Obsession
4.5/4
Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing...
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An Indecent Obsession

2024

Hamlet
7.8/5
A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological thriller...
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Hamlet

2024

Sebastian
6.5/22
Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds...
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Sebastian

2006

Land of the Blind
5.8/53
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
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Land of the Blind

2013

Isaac Newton: The Last Magician
6/2
Isaac Newton - brilliant rational mathematician or master of the occult? This innovative biography reveals Newton as both a hermit and a tyrant, a her...
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Isaac Newton: The Last Magician

2023

Doctor Jekyll
4.9/9
Recluse Dr. Nina Jekyll befriends with her newly hired help, Rob. They must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.
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Doctor Jekyll

2003

Stealing Bess
5.3/3
Two English twins, who despise each other, start rival vacuum cleaner companies across the street from each other.
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Stealing Bess

1991

The War That Never Ends
0/0
The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and o...
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The War That Never Ends

2015

Crimson Peak
6.656/4976
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Tr...
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Crimson Peak

1994

Being Human
5.1/60
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
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Being Human

2016

First Born
5.362/87
A young couples lives are turned upside down when the birth of their first child is accompanied by terrifying entities that threaten their newly forme...
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First Born

2001

The Tailor of Panama
6/494
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a ne...
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The Tailor of Panama

2000

Eisenstein
5.5/4
A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
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Eisenstein

2006

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
5.1/48
Thousands of years ago, the great Child King Tutankhamen ruled. Few know the details of his life -- No one knows the secrets of his death. All that is...
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

2017

Breathe
7.4/757
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
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Breathe

1994

Deadly Advice
4.6/5
Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has fe...
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Deadly Advice

1980

Hamlet
6.1/14
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then...
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Hamlet

1985

Poppyland
0/0
He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confine...
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Poppyland

1991

Children of the North
7/2
The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation.
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Children of the North

2021

Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
7.5/335
The Guardians of Arcadia reunite to battle the nefarious Arcane Order, who've reawakened the primordial Titans.
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Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

1987

The Death of the Heart
0/0
A young orphan girl, Portia, goes to live with her well-to-do aunt and uncle. As she is groomed to become a lady, she is confused by the young man who...
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The Death of the Heart

1989

Fellow Traveller
4/3
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept i...
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Fellow Traveller

1979

Phoelix
0/0
An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality...
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Phoelix

1995

Bliss
0/0
Dr. Sam Bliss, a medical research scientist based at Cambridge University, investigates bizarre and unexplained deaths, with the help of his assistant...
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Bliss

1998

Beyond Titanic
7.667/3
A survey of 86 years of Titanicana in popular culture, with the emphasis on movies about (or inspired by) the disaster.
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Beyond Titanic

1997

Titanic
7.9/25777
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fian...
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