Jonathan Kydd

As of 2016-18, he voices Fuse the robot and Big Ears and Scurvy and the Ninjas and Daft Knight in Noddy,Toyland Detective. He voices various characters in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and Unity. Kydd is also the vocal double for Robbie Coltrane in Harry Potter related media, having voiced Rubeus Hagrid in the various video games related to the series.

He has acted in many sitcoms, including One Foot in the Grave and three series of Smith and Jones as one of the 'pals'. He voiced the cult Ferrero Rocher Ambassador's Reception television advertisement, and featured as the voice of Hagrid, Death Eaters and various wizards in all the Harry Potter computer games. His short film Ahaarrrr (2007) appeared at seventeen international film festivals. His most recent short is Shakespeare's Wart.

He has voiced over 12,000 adverts, promos, documentaries, corporate videos, and CD ROM games, and has dubbed many films and TV programmes. He was the voice for L'Oreal adverts in the early 2000s. He is a regular voice for Film4, and voices many wildlife documentaries. He writes and provides vocals with comedy band The Rudy Vees having been in The Amazing Singing Dentists, The Bay Citee Molars and The Kondos who appeared on the finals of New Faces in 1988, and played in his own band Jonny Kydd, for whom he recorded a song for Chelsea FC called "Chelsea Blue". His album Eggshell Heart was out in 2005. His Bay Citee Molars album Dentura Highway was released in 2009. His Rudy Vees album The Fists of Harmonious Righteousnesswhich is just out has three videos recorded from it: "King of Thongs", "My baby's possibly a Vampire" and "Dance Like My Dad". His new videos are "Posh" and an electro dance track singing the praises of the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow.

From 1997, he was the voice of Paddington Bear in The Adventures of Paddington Bear. Other animated programmes he voiced on are: two series of Mr Bean, Warren United, Hilltop Hospital, the first series of Bimble's Bucket, Asterix, The Bash Street Kids, Bangers and Mash and Astro Farm. Every week he talks football on the Chelsea Fancast podcast.

Jonathan Kydd was the man who had his car buried in the sand in a 1989 AA commercial which ran for four years. He has 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. He wrote 23 comedy songs for the comedian Brian Conley when he was appearing in his Saturday evening show in the early nineties, one of which was on the 1994 Royal Variety Show. He 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 talking about his father on 'Sam Kydd day' when they showed nine of the 240 films made by his father between 1945 and 1982.

His first acting role was in the 1962 British comedy film The Iron Maiden, in which he appeared aged six with his father. His mother, Pinkie, was one of England's first female advertising copywriters and also played table tennis eleven times for England. He narrates some Video 125 train videos. He is a fan of Chelsea Football Club.

Jonathan Kydd (born 1956) is a British actor and voice actor. He is the son of the actor Sam Kydd.