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- Works
- 23
Top works
- My Friend Sam Meets Chantale
- Whole Elephant
- Elysian Passage
- You Don't Know How to Change
- Cambridge Marketing Handbook
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Film & TV
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
One of England's most successful and enduring character actors, with a prolific screen career on television and in films, Robert Hardy was acclaimed for his versatility and the depth of his performances. Born in Cheltenham in 1925, he studied at Oxford University and, in 1949, he joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon. Television viewers most fondly remember him as the…
Known for
- Snapshot Wedding — Donald2017
- Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain — Winston Churchill2015
- Joseph's Reel — Old Joseph2015
- Narnia's Lost Poet: The Secret Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis — Self - Interviewee2013
- Ghosts in the Machine — Narrator2009
- Margaret — Willie Whitelaw2009
- Centenary: The BP Story — George Reynolds (voice)2009
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — Cornelius Fudge2007
- Elementary My Dear Viewer — Self2007
- The Alan Titchmarsh Show — Self2007
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Key facts
- Born
- Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy , ( 1925-10-29 ) 29 October 1925, Cheltenham , Gloucestershire, England
- Died
- 3 August 2017 (2017-08-03) (aged 91), Northwood, London , England
- Alma mater
- Magdalen College, Oxford
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1949 –2017
- Spouses
- Elizabeth Fox ( 1952 – 1956 ) Sally Pearson ( 1961 – 1986 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Timothy
- Family name
- Hardy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Cheltenham
- Place of death
- Northwood
- Occupation
- stage actor
- Educated at
- University of Oxford
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- acting
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- date of birth
- 1925-10-29
- member of
- Society of Antiquaries of London
- date of death
- 2017-08-03
- start of work period
- 1955-00-00
- end of work period
- 2017-00-00
- birth name
- Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy
- Commons category
- Robert Hardy
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Encyclopedic overview
Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy (29 October 1925 – 3 August 2017) was an English actor who had a long career in theatre, film and television. He began his career as a classical actor and later earned widespread recognition for roles such as Siegfried Farnon in the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small, Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter film series, and Winston Churchill in several productions, beginning with the Southern Television series Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years. He was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Actor for All Creatures Great and Small in 1980 and Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years in 1982. Aside from acting, Hardy was an acknowledged expert on the medieval English longbow and wrote two books on the subject.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robert Hardy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.