Jonathan Kydd (actor)
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Jonathan Kydd is a British
actor. He is the son of the actor Sam Kydd
.
His first film was The Iron Maiden, in which he appeared aged six with his father. His mother, Pinkie, was one of England's first female advertising copywriters. She also played table tennis eleven times for England.
Kydd was the man who had his car buried in the sand in a 1989 AA
commercial. He has also appeared in numerous radio and television series including: Pipkins
, Chambers
, Dial M For Pizza
, Flying the Flag
, Smith and Jones
, The Quest, Jonathan Creek
, Trial and Retribution and The Castle
. He has acted in many sitcoms. He voiced the cult Ferrero Rocher
Ambassador's Reception television advertisement (including the immortal 'eccelente' line), and more featured as the voice of Hagrid, Peeves the ghost, and sundry other wizards in the computer games of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
. His short film Ahaar recently appeared at seventeen international film festivals. He has voiced over 5,000 adverts, promotions, documentaries, corporate presentations, and CD rom games, and has dubbed many films. He has been a voice for L'Oreal
adverts for ten years. He sings and writes with comedy band "The Amazing Singing Dentists" and plays in his own band "Jonny Kydd", for whom he has just recorded a song for Chelsea FC called "Chelsea Blue". His album 'Eggshell Heart' was out last year.
United Kingdom
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actor. He is the son of the actor Sam Kydd
Sam Kydd
Sam Kydd was an Ulster-born English actor. An army officer's son, he was born in Belfast, but moved to London, England when he was a child. He was educated at Dunstable Grammar School in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England....
.
His first film was The Iron Maiden, in which he appeared aged six with his father. His mother, Pinkie, was one of England's first female advertising copywriters. She also played table tennis eleven times for England.
Kydd was the man who had his car buried in the sand in a 1989 AA
Automobile Association
Automobile Association may refer to:*Australian Automobile Association in Australia.*Automobile Association of South Africa*Canadian Automobile Association in Canada.*Dominion Automobile Association in Canada....
commercial. He has also appeared in numerous radio and television series including: Pipkins
Pipkins
Pipkins was a British children's TV programme. Hartley Hare, Pig, Topov and the gang were the stars of ATV's pre-school series which ran from January 1973 to 29 December 1981....
, Chambers
Chambers (series)
Chambers was a BBC radio and television sitcom. It was written by barrister Clive Coleman and starred John Bird and Sarah Lancashire in both versions. The radio version was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in three series between 1996 and 1999, and the television version was broadcast on BBC One...
, Dial M For Pizza
Dial M For Pizza
Dial M for Pizza was a sketch show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the late 1980s, written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie.The series starred Robert Bathurst, Brenda Blethyn, Mike Grady and Jonathan Kydd. Other performers on the show included Jim Broadbent, Janine Duvitski, Felicity Montagu, Enn Reitel...
, Flying the Flag
Flying the Flag
-Synopsis:Created at the height of the Cold War, this BBC Radio 4 sitcom chronicled the vagaries of diplomatic life in a fictitious eastern-bloc country...
, Smith and Jones
Alas Smith and Jones
Alas Smith and Jones is a British comedy sketch television series featuring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. It was broadcast on the BBC from 1984 to 1998...
, The Quest, Jonathan Creek
Jonathan Creek
Jonathan Creek is a British mystery series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. Primarily a crime drama, the show is also peppered with broadly comic touches...
, Trial and Retribution and The Castle
The Castle (radio series)
The Castle is a 2007 Radio 4 comedy set in the Middle Ages and referencing modern life - in the words of its own introduction, "a comedy set in the filth, stench and grime of the middle ages, with some nice music"...
. He has acted in many sitcoms. He voiced the cult Ferrero Rocher
Ferrero Rocher
Ferrero Rocher is a spherical chocolate sweet made by Italian chocolatier Ferrero SpA. Introduced in 1982, the chocolates consist of a whole roasted hazelnut encased in a thin wafer shell filled with hazelnut cream and covered in milk chocolate and chopped hazelnuts. The sweets each contain 73...
Ambassador's Reception television advertisement (including the immortal 'eccelente' line), and more featured as the voice of Hagrid, Peeves the ghost, and sundry other wizards in the computer games of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a action-adventure game published by Electronic Arts and developed by both EA's internal development team and Eurocom for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube and Game Boy Advance systems. It was simultaneously co-developed by Amaze Entertainment for...
and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a computer and video game that was released concurrently with the film release of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Both the game and the film were based on J. K...
. His short film Ahaar recently appeared at seventeen international film festivals. He has voiced over 5,000 adverts, promotions, documentaries, corporate presentations, and CD rom games, and has dubbed many films. He has been a voice for L'Oreal
L'Oréal
The L'Oréal Group is the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company. With its registered office in Paris and head office in the Paris suburb of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France, it has developed activities in the field of cosmetics...
adverts for ten years. He sings and writes with comedy band "The Amazing Singing Dentists" and plays in his own band "Jonny Kydd", for whom he has just recorded a song for Chelsea FC called "Chelsea Blue". His album 'Eggshell Heart' was out last year.
External links
- http://www.kyddvoiceovers.co.uk/ Jonathan Kydd's voice-over website
- http://www.jonathankydd.com/ Jonathan Kydd's home page
- http://www.theamazingsingingdentists.co.uk/ Jonathan Kydd's comedy band
- http://www.kyddmusic.co.uk/Jonathan Kydd's band 'Jonny Kydd'