Jonathan Hyde
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Hyde at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International
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| Born |
21 May 1948 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1974–present |
| Spouse(s) | Isobel Buchanan |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
Jonathan Hyde (born 21 May 1948) is an Australian 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.
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.
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, , Eisenstein and Anaconda.
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