Robert Hardy

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-10-29 (92 years old)

Deathday

2017-08-03

Place of Birth

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Robert Hardy

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 ...

Acting

1994

1995

Sense and Sensibility

as Sir John Middleton

2003

The Gathering

as Bishop

1984

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

as Lord Bob Lilburn (archive footage) (uncredited)

2017

1967

Berserk!

as Detective Superintendent Brooks

2009

1997

Mrs. Dalloway

as Sir William Bradshaw

1958

Torpedo Run

as Lt. Redley

1972

1973

The Silent One

as Assistant

1989

Bomber Harris

as Winston Churchill

1994

A Feast at Midnight

as Headmaster

1974

The Slap

as Robert Dickinson

1973

Dark Places

as Edward Foster / Andrew Marr

1974

The Gathering Storm

as Joachim von Ribbentrop

1971

The Stalls of Barchester

as Archdeacon Haynes

1999

Nancherrow

as Viscount Berryan

1979

Speed King

as Dorothy Campbell

1975

Caesar and Claretta

as Benito Mussolini

1980

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

as Narrator (voice)

1999

An Ideal Husband

as Lord Caversham

1985

The Shooting Party

as Bob, Lord Lilburn

1985

Jenny's War

as Klein

2002

Thunderpants

as Doctor

1980

Twelfth Night

as Sir Toby Belch

1973

1987

Make and Break

as John Garrard

2004

Making Waves

as Father Parry

1998

1986

Paying Guests (Part 2)

as Colonel Chase

1986

Paying Guests (Part 1)

as Colonel Chase

1988

The Woman He Loved

as Winston Churchill

1992

The Master Blackmailer

as Charles Augustus Milverton

2009

Margaret

as Willie Whitelaw

1965

1987

Northanger Abbey

as General Tilney

1970

Warm Feet, Warm Heart

as Albert Purvis

2002

The Falklands Play

as Sir Anthony Parsons

2003

Lucky Jim

as Professor Neddy Welch

2001

The Lost World

as Prof. Illingworth

2002

Bertie and Elizabeth

as President Roosevelt

1972

Young Winston

as Prep School Headmaster

1955

Othello

as Cassio

1949

Black Legend

as Mad Thomas

1971

10 Rillington Place

as Malcolm Morris

1973

Psychomania

as Chief Inspector Hesseltine

2005

Lassie

as Judge Murray

1989

Paris by Night

as Adam Gillvray

1998

2015

Joseph's Reel

as Old Joseph

1967

How I Won the War

as British General

1973

Yellow Dog

as Alexander

1987

2006

Goodbye Mr Snuggles

as Mr. Stiles

1981

Fothergill

as John Fothergill

1986

The Demon Lover

as William Drover

1969

Son of Man

as Pontius Pilate

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