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Margaret

as Willie Whitelaw

2009
Margaret

as Willie Whitelaw

2009
Lassie

as

2005
Making Waves

as Father Parry

2004
Death in Holy Orders

as Father Martin Petrie

2003
Lucky Jim

as Professor Neddy Welch

2003
Thunderpants

as

2002
The Falklands Play

as Sir Anthony Parsons

2002
Shackleton

as Sir James Caird

2002
The Gathering

as Bishop

2003
Gulliver's Travels

as Dr. Parnell

1996
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

as Prof. Krempe

1994
Middlemarch

as Arthur Brooke

1994
A Feast At Midnight

as Headmaster

1995
The Master Blackmailer

as Charles Augustus Milverton

1992
Bomber Harris

as Winston Churchill

1989
War and Remembrance

as Winston Churchill

1988
The Woman He Loved

as Winston Churchill

1988
Hot Metal

as

1986
The Shooting Party

as Bob, Lord Lilburn

1985
Twelfth Night

as Sir Toby Belch

1980
All Creatures Great and Small

as Siegfried Farnon

1978
The Slap

as Robert Dickinson

1974
Speed King

as Dorothy Campbell

1979
Dark Places

as Edward Foster / Andrew Marr

1974
Robert Hardy Robert Hardy

Birthday

1925-10-29

Place of Birth

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Biography

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 overbearing Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small (1978) but his most critically acclaimed performance was as the title character of Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981). His portrayal of Britain's wartime leader was so accurately observed that, in the following years, he was called on to reprise the role in such productions as The Woman He Loved (1988) and War and Remembrance (1988). Unlike some British character actors, Hardy was not a Hollywood name and his work in films was therefore restricted to appearances in predominantly British-based productions such as The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) and Sense and Sensibility (1995). However, in the 21st century, Hardy came to the attention of a whole new generation for his performances in the hugely successful Harry Potter films, while also continuing to make regular appearances in British television series. His co-star from All Creatures Great and Small (1978), Peter Davison, quite simply described Hardy as an "extraordinary" actor who would "never do the same thing twice" when he was acting with him. He was awarded the CBE for services to acting. He died in August 2017.
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