Jonathan Kydd (actor)

Jonathan Kydd is a British actor, voice-over artist, narrator, writer, producer and podcaster. He has appeared on many television shows and has also worked as a voice actor, voicing video games, advertisements, documentaries and cartoons and being a regular in comedy episodes for BBC Radio 4. He is the son of the late actor Sam Kydd. Kydd's first acting role was in the 1962 British comedy film The Iron Maiden, in which he appeared aged 6 with his father. He also appeared in numerous radio and television series including Pipkins, Chambers, Dial M For Pizza, Flying the Flag, The Quest, Jonathan Creek, Trial and Retribution, The Castle, The Attractive Young Rabbi and Cabin Pressure, as well as a 1989 AA commercial as a man who had his car buried in the sand, which ran for four years. Kydd wrote 23 comedy songs for the comedian Brian Conley when he was appearing in his Saturday evening show in the early 1990s, one of which was on the 1994 Royal Variety Show. Kydd has written four musicals, one of which, Hey Get a Life, was on at the St Andrews Lane Theatre in Dublin in 2000 which he also directed. His musical The Hard Boiled Egg and the Wasp, about the Victorian comedian Dan Leno, was on at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre in 2012. His later musical, written like the previous one with Andy Street, was Doodle the Musical, which was on at Waterloo East; his father Sam Kydd was in it as a character. He appeared on Talking Pictures TV, discussing his father on "Sam Kydd day" when the channel showed nine of the 290 films made by his father between 1945 and 1982.