Jonathan Hyde

Jonathan Hyde
Image:8475-23805.jpg Hyde as J. Bruce Ismay in Titanic (1997)
Born	May 21 1947 (1947-05-21) (age 62) Brisbane, Queensland

Jonathan Hyde (born May 21, 1947) is an Australian-born English stage actor. He is most well known for his roles as J. Bruce Ismay, the managing director of the White Star Line in the 1997 movie blockbuster Titanic, the Egyptologist in The Mummy and Sam Parrish/Van Pelt the hunter in Jumanji.

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.

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 and Sylvester McCoy. Both plays toured together internationally.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1980	Phoelix	Napier
1985	An Indecent Obsession	Neil Parkinson
1986	Caravaggio	Baglione
1993	Being Human	Francisco
1993	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
1997	Anaconda	Warren Westridge
1999	The Mummy	Dr. Allen Chamberlain
2000	Eisenstein	Meyerhold
2001	The Tailor of Panama	Cavendish
2001	Princess of Thieves	Prince John
2002	Vacuums (film)	Edwin Snipe
2006	The Contract	Turner
2006	Land of the Blind	Smith