Mr. Hyde

Hyde, Mr.; Jekyll, Dr.Mr. Hyde (left) and Dr. Jekyll, both as portrayed by Fredric March, 1931.

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.

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Article Title: Mr. Hyde

Website Name: Encyclopaedia Britannica

Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

Date Published: 18 March 2025

Access Date: November 13, 2026