1. Michael Jeremy Thomas Clyde was born on 22 March 1941 and is an English actor and musician.
15 Facts About Jeremy Clyde
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Jeremy Clyde has enjoyed a long television acting career, often playing upper-middle class or aristocratic characters.
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Jeremy Clyde was born in the village of Dorney in the English county of Buckinghamshire and is the son of Lady Elizabeth Wellesley and her then-husband Thomas Jeremy Clyde.
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Jeremy Clyde was educated at two independent schools, Ludgrove and Eton, and then at the University of Grenoble.
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Jeremy Clyde once guest-starred in an episode of the American sitcom My Three Sons, when Chip Douglas is introduced to their neighbor's cousin, Paul Drayton, as a well known folk guitarist in Britain, excited that someone from Liverpool was coming to visit and expecting him to be a talented musician.
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Jeremy Clyde appeared in the BBC TV adaptation of Moll Flanders in 1975.
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Jeremy Clyde is perhaps best known for his portrayal of villainous Austrian Imperial Governor Hermann Gessler, in the action series Crossbow, which incorporated Clyde's ability to convey evil in a distinctly aristocratic way.
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Jeremy Clyde portrayed King Charles I in the BBC series By the Sword Divided, which depicted the English Civil War.
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Jeremy Clyde starred as Algernon Moncrieff in 1985 in the Great Performances production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, opposite Gary Bond as Jack Worthing and Dame Wendy Hiller as Lady Bracknell.
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In 2002, Jeremy Clyde appeared in The Falklands Play as Sir Nicholas Henderson, the British ambassador to the United States at the time.
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Jeremy Clyde has portrayed Ngaio Marsh's fictional detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn.
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In 1965, Jeremy Clyde appeared in a stage production of The Passion Flower Hotel, a musical adaptation written by John Barry and Trevor Peacock, at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London.
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Jeremy Clyde travelled to the US as part of the original Broadway cast.
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In 2011, Jeremy Clyde played Lord Halifax in Three Days in May at Trafalgar Studios in London.
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Jeremy Clyde is divorced from Vanessa Field, whom he married in 1970 at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City.