Mr. Hyde

fictional character
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Also known as: Edward Hyde
In full:
Edward Hyde

Mr. Hyde, the evil alter ego of Dr. Jekyll, a fictional character in Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).

John Barrymore (1920), Fredric March (1931), and Spencer Tracy (1941) gave notable film performances as Jekyll and Hyde.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.