All about Jonathan Kydd

Hello there. I’m Jonathan Kydd. I voice stuff. (I’ve done over 70 video games) I was in “Toy Story That Time Forgot”(all info on this site) playing Ray Gon . I’ve done about 20000 voice overs in a 38 year career. I act. I’ve made two award winning shorts….”Ahaaaarrrr” and “Shakespeare’s Wart”

On TikTok I’m @jonathankyddcfc and @jonathankydd

https:///www.tiktok.com@jonathankyddcfc?_t=8jQ66Y7Y9ce&_r=1

I do the

Chelsea Fanbite

a two minute critique of each Chelsea match.

I podcast on the

Chelsea Fancast.

https://www.chelseafancast.com

I write books about my father

Sam Kydd

available at www.Samkydd.com and on Amazon

https://www.samkydd.com

I sing in a band called

http://www.jonathankydd.com/the-rudy-vees/

Also available on here and on You Tube as The Rudy Vees

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMR9cyhbZbi_C8mMV8FLNPA

I have a youtube site for myself Jonathan Kydd which feature whole animation episodes of Bangers and Mash and Astrofarm and whole episodes of Pipkins

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU-cgTjSrilX3jedS-QaNfQ

I’m on X as @jonathankyddcfc and @vant_howard Jonathankyddactor and @chelseafancast

The Singing Dentists

are on You Tube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTJM383jpJcSdJKGPRvnXiQ

As is a football site @jonathankyddchelseachannel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEqnXPXT_Rw84wfmZIH14gQ

I have a Voice Over Studio with Pro Tools and Logic and a Neumann microphone with a Focusrite Red7.

If you want to book me for voice overs, videos games, cartoons, documentaries etc I’m with

Harvey Voices…..

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7952 4361
Email: emma@harveyvoices.co.uk

My acting is represented by

Shane Collins...

Telephone: 0207 253 1010

Email: shane@shanecollins.co.uk

I’m a hugely experienced actor/voice over – been doing this since 1986 – Here are a few people I’ve worked for in the last few years…

Talksport ..Cadbury …Times Radio….Premier league ..Champions league. BBC World..BBC Earth, BBC First, Animal Planet. DMax.. C5! Al-Jazeera! Nat Geo. Film 4. Film Fear. ‘Africa’s Deadliest’ and Human Ape Little Monkey House’ documentaries for Nat Geo Wild.And ‘Wonderfully Weird!’ And Robert Kennedy for Green Rock!’ And ‘Tuna Wars!’ BBC News ‘Brexit!’ ‘World’s Toughest Prisons’, for 5 Spike! “Demon’s Souls 3” Video game ‘Shark V Tuna!’ ‘Panorama’ “and ‘World of Warcraft Battle of Azeroth’. Discovery’Wheeler Dealers’ Salvage Hunters Quest ‘Combat Dealers’ ‘Airport Security’ ‘Mr Bean’! ‘5USA’ ‘NCIS’..’Discovery ID’….’WW2 Origins’ doco … Food Network ….”The Real Black Panther” ……….. And “Wild Central America” for Nat Geo and more “Airport Security” docos…… Renault.. Talkradio.. Just Eat.. Titanic.. Air Force One.. Predator SharkvWhale, O2, ITV, C5, Fox, Really, “Slime!” Panorama, “Movies and Film” doco episodes for Sky Arts, . Britbox “World’s most dangerous Jellyfish” and World’s most powerful bites” docos for NatGeo and “Cold War and the Cinema” for Sky Arts.. Shark Attack Files for Disney.

I directed a Zoom reading of ‘A Christmas Carol’ in 2023 starring Nicholas le Prevost.

I did 3 episodes of Charles Paris for Radio 4. A Deadly Habit! I played three characters. One an obese asthmatic cockney stage door keeper at a West End Theatre. Starring Bill Nighy. It won a comedy award!!!

Did an ep of Trying recently seen on AppleTV. I’m a bouncer at a Ballroom!

SEVERAL ONGOING PROJECTS:

Musical about the death of Dan Leno called Fool.

Written with Andy Street. Finished. Awaiting pre production.

New musical with Andy Street Working Title ‘Mrs Wallace’. Opening scenes written!

Doing a swing techno version of one of my old songs “Hot Coals” Track recorded. Need to do the vid!

Recording a country album. Done one track! “Gold at the end of the Rainbow.” The video is on “Videos”

Doing an audio book of my father’s first book “For You the War is Over”. Done half!

Finishing my comedy screen play! And film it! Halfway through!

Doing a doco of my father’s life and career. Some interviews done!

THAT’S THAT! MEANWHILE…….Here’s some spiel….

I’m an actor. But I also voice stuff and make films and videos and write songs . Which I then perform (in!). I’ve written three musicals and a variety of hour long shows featuring comedy bands (which I’ve been in) and a number of video blogs, mostly about football. I’ve also made two comedy short films and a lot of videos. I podcast about football as well. This site attempts to reflect all these diverse things I get up to that are still all entertainment based! So there are many vids and sound clips and voice over segments and short films and songs I’ve written or been in or sung or am in or doing at this moment!

Here’s what London’s Metro wrote about me in 2012:

Here it is slightly more legibly!

“Voice-over artist Jonathan Kydd has worked on more than 6,000 commercials, lending his voice to campaigns for brands such as Ferrero Rocher. Here he talks to Metro about his daily 9-5”

Jonathan Kydd talks to Metro about his daily working life (Picture: Metro)

I started doing voice-overs as I thought it would be a nice way to help my acting and enable me to make some money when I wasn’t working. I made a reel of me doing hundreds of different voices and tried to get a voice agent. My break came when I played a cockney cat in a cat food commercial. You never know what you’re going to be doing as a voice-over artist. Unlike acting, you’re cast by your reel, you don’t have an interview first. There’s a fear that permeates life that you’ll never work again, that you might be found to be not very good at all. It’s good fun when people recognise your voice as normally it’s a very anonymous world. I asked a bloke on the Underground a question recently and he said: ‘Excuse me, I think I recognise your voice. Do you do commercials?’ It never occurred to me that the Ferrero Rocher ‘excellente’ advert would become so iconic. The agency tried to make out the advert wouldn’t be shown in England, which is why they told me to do a silly voice. When people started saying ‘excellente’ as part of their conversation, it was fun. The weirdest job I’ve ever done was voicing two socks for a detergent commercial. When I’d done the first run-through, somebody actually said: ‘They don’t sound like socks to me.’ I’m often complimented on my clarity and have been told I sound very sincere. Though someone said “I faked sincerity very well.” I’m also cheery in the studio and I never object to anything I’m told to do. You have to look after your voice. If I get a cold, it’s awful. I’m a hypochondriac – if I’m on the Tube and somebody starts sneezing, I change carriages. If you have a bunged-up nose, they won’t want you. I drink hot lemon with ginger and honey and I go to the gym a lot – it’s essential. I also do an exercise tape for my voice. The worst point of my career was getting down to the last two for a One Foot In The Grave Christmas special in 1993 playing the lead and missing out. I think that the highlight is yet to come as I’m trying to make films and voicing allows me to do this in my spare time’ .