Of all the actors to portray real-life people in
James Cameron's blockbuster
Titanic (1997), Hyde was the actor closest in age in 1997 to the April 1912 age of the person he/she portrayed. Hyde portrayed J. Bruce Ismay, who was 49 years old in April 1912, and Jonathan Hyde was 49 years old when Titanic (1997) premiered in December 1997.