
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.
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as Sir Douglas Weatherford (voice)

as Anthony
as Leslie Woodrow
as Nicholas

as Claudius
as Henry Jekyll
as Strickler (voice)
as General Beauvoir · 2 episodes
as David Napley · 3 episodes
as Dr. Entwistle

as President Sir William Webb
as Mr. Strickler (voice) · 42 episodes
as President Sir William Webb · 4 episodes
as Duke of Norfolk · 1 episode
as Alistair
as Ogilvie
as Earl of Kent
as Hanan · 1 episode

as Morgan Sinclair · 2 episodes
as Smith
as Morgan Sinclair
as Turner
as George Pentney

as Mayor Waldo
as The Duke of Bedford · 2 episodes
as Allen Chamberlain
as Bruce Ismay
as Warren Westridge
as Frank Webster · 1 episode
as Van Pelt / Sam Parrish

as Dr. Oliver Pleasance
as Cadbury

as 'Sheriff of Nottingham'

as Vincent Stott

as Sir Edward Marshall Hall · 8 episodes

as St. Quentin Miller
as Baglione
as Jonathan Wilsher · 1 episode

as Neil Parkinson
as Tigellinus · 1 episode

as Napier

as Charles · 1 episode
as Tommy · 1 episode
as Amadeus · 1 episode
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