Jonathan Hyde Biography

Jonathan "Nash" Hyde (born 21 May 1948) is an Australian-born English actor, best known for his role as the loyal butler, Herbert Cadbury, in Richie Rich, J. Bruce Ismay in 1997 hit film Titanic, Culverton Smith in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Warren Westridge in Anaconda, Sam Parrish/Van Pelt in Jumanji and Eldritch Palmer in the FX TV series The Strain.

Early life

Hyde was born in Brisbane, Queensland, to an average middle-class family. His father was Stephen Geoffrey King, a successful solicitor. Hyde had no interest in being the third generation of the family law firm, and left for London in the late 1960s.

Career

Hyde 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 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 played 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 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 and Anaconda.

He appeared in the 1989 BBC miniseries Shadow of the Noose in which he played barrister Edward Marshall Hall. He has also appeared in several television mysteries, including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett and Midsomer Murders as Frank Smythe-Webster.

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 played Ilya Gavrik, a Russian Minister.

Hyde appeared as Lionel Logue, the King's speech therapist in the West End production of The King's Speech at Wyndham's Theatre.

He also appeared on the rap supergroup Westside Connection's first studio album Bow Down on the intro on the album.

Since 2014 he has starred as Eldritch Palmer in the FX TV series The Strain.

Personal life

Hyde is married to Scottish soprano Isobel Buchanan. The couple have two daughters, one of whom is actress Georgia King.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1980	Phoelix	Napier
1985	An Indecent Obsession	Neil Parkinson
	A.D.	Tigellinus
1986	Caravaggio	Baglione
1993	Being Human	Francisco
	Deadly Advice	George Joseph Smith
1994	The Dying Detective	Culverton Smith
	Rihie Rih	Herbert Arthur Runcible Cadbury
	Cadfael	Lord Godfrid Picard	Episode, "The Leper of Saint Giles"
1995	Jumanji	Samuel Alan Parrish/Hunter Van Pelt
	Bliss	Dr. Oliver Pleasance	TV film
1996	A Touch of Frost	Dr. Keith Michaelson
1997	Titanic	J. Bruce Ismay
	Anaconda	Warren Westridge
1999	The Mummy	Dr. Allen Chamberlain/Egyptologist
2000	Eisenstein	Meyerhold
2000	The Prince and the Pauper	Lord Hertford	TV film
2001	Attila	Flavius Felix	TV miniseries
2001	The Tailor of Panama	Cavendish
	Princess of Thieves	Prince John
2002	Midsomer Murders	Frank Smythe-Webster	Series 6
	Dinotopia	Mayor Waldo	TV series- 13 episodes
2002	Vacuums	Edwin Snipe
2004	Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking	George Pentney	TV film
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 film
2011	Spooks	Ilya Gavrik	Series 10
2013	Foyle's War	Colonel Galt	Series 7 Episode 2 "The Cage"
2014 - Present	The Strain	Eldritch Palmer	TV series

Theatre work

With the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre

• 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).
• Isaac Newton ( BBC Docu-Drama).