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Occupation  Actor
Years active  1958 – present

Name  Robert Hardy
Role  Actor

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Full Name
  Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy
Born  29 October 1925 (age 90) (1925-10-29) Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Children  Emma Hardy, Paul Hardy, Justine Hardy
Spouse  Sally Pearson (m. 1961–1986), Elizabeth Fox (m. 1952–1956)
Books  Longbow: A Social and Military History
Parents  Jocelyn Hardy, Henry Harrison Hardy
Movies and TV shows  All Creatures Great and, Harry Potter and the Order, Harry Potter and the Goble, Harry Potter and the Priso, Harry Potter and the Cham
Similar People  Christopher Timothy, Carol Drinkwater, Peter Davison, Emma Hardy, Mary Hignett

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Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy, CBE, FSA (29 October 1925 – 3 August 2017) was an English actor who enjoyed a long career in the theatre, film and television.

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Early life

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Hardy was born in Cheltenham in 1925 to Jocelyn (née Dugdale) and Henry Harrison Hardy, the headmaster of Cheltenham College and later of Shrewsbury School. He was educated at Rugby School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where his studies were interrupted by service in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He trained as a pilot, receiving part of his instruction in Terrell, Texas, in the British Flying Training School Program. While he visited Los Angeles when on leave from flight training at Terrell, his later acting career never gained a foothold in Hollywood. After service in the RAF, he returned to gain a BA (Hons) in English. On BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs he described the degree he obtained as "shabby", although he treasured the time spent studying under C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Career

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Hardy began his career as a classical actor. In 1959 he appeared as Sicinius opposite Laurence Olivier in Coriolanus at Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by Peter Hall. He then appeared in Shakespeare's Henry V on stage and in television's An Age of Kings (1960), and subsequently played Coriolanus in The Spread of the Eagle (BBC, 1963) and Sir Toby Belch for the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Twelfth Night in 1980. Over the years, Hardy played a range of parts on television and film. His first continuing role in a TV series was as businessman Alec Stewart in the award-winning oil company drama The Troubleshooters for the BBC, which he played from 1966 to 1970. He won further acclaim for his portrayal of the mentally-unhinged Abwehr Sgt. Gratz in LWT's 1969 war drama Manhunt. In 1975, Hardy portrayed Albert, Prince Consort in the award-winning 13-hour serial Edward the Seventh (known as Edward the King to the American audience), which he regarded as one of his best performances. "I thought I'd done a good job there, although I believe the Royal Family didn't like it all. There are always people who don't like what one does."

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He was seen as the irascible senior veterinarian Siegfried Farnon in the long-running All Creatures Great and Small (1978–90), an adaptation of James Herriot's semi-autobiographical books.

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Hardy also made an appearance in the 1986–88 ITV comedy series Hot Metal, in which he played the dual roles of newspaper proprietor Twiggy Rathbone (who bore more than a passing resemblance to Rupert Murdoch) and his editor, Russell Spam. In 1993 Hardy appeared in an episode of Inspector Morse, playing Andrew Baydon in "Twilight of the Gods". In 2002, he played the role of pompous and eccentric Professor Neddy Welch in a WTTV/WGBH Boston co-production of Lucky Jim, adapted from the novel by Kingsley Amis. It aired originally as part of the Masterpiece series on PBS in the U.S. and starred Stephen Tompkinson in the title role of Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university.

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Hardy played both Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, each on more than one occasion. He played Churchill most notably in Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981), for which he won a BAFTA award, but also in The Sittaford Mystery, Bomber Harris and War and Remembrance. On 20 August 2010, he read Churchill's famous wartime address "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" at a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the speech. He played Roosevelt in the BBC serial, Bertie and Elizabeth, and in the French TV mini-series, Le Grand Charles, about the life of Charles de Gaulle.

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He also played Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in Elizabeth R, and took the role of Sir John Middleton in the 1995 film version of Sense and Sensibility.

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His big screen roles included Professor Krempe in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter films.

His voice performance as Robin Hood in Tale Spinners For Children, an LP from the 1960s, is considered one of the best Robin Hood renditions. His voice was also the voice of D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers, and of Frédéric Chopin, in The Story of Chopin.

Awards

Hardy was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1981 Birthday Honours.

Personal life

His first marriage, in 1952, was to Elizabeth Fox, the daughter of Sir Lionel Fox; they had a son, Paul. This marriage ended in 1956. In 1961 he married Sally Pearson, the daughter of the baronet Sir Neville Pearson and Dame Gladys Cooper as well as a sister-in-law of Robert Morley. From this marriage, which ended in 1986, Hardy had two other children, one of whom is Justine Hardy, a journalist, activist, and psychotherapist who founded Healing Kashmir. His second daughter, Emma, is a mother of three and a photographer.

He was a close friend of actor Richard Burton, whom he met at Oxford University. He shared some memories of their wartime friendship and read extracts from Burton's newly-published diaries at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in 2012.

While playing Henry V, Hardy developed an interest in medieval warfare, and in 1963 he wrote and presented an acclaimed television documentary on the subject of the Battle of Agincourt. He also wrote two books on the subject of the longbow, Longbow: A Social and Military History, and The Great Warbow; From Hastings to the Mary Rose with Matthew Strickland. He was one of the experts consulted by the archaeologist responsible for raising the Mary Rose. He was Master of the Worshipful Company of Bowyers of the City of London from 1988 to 1990. In 1996 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

In February 2013, Hardy withdrew from his scheduled performance as Winston Churchill in Peter Morgan's play, The Audience, after suffering cracked ribs as the result of a fall.

Hardy died on 3 August 2017, aged 91, at Denville Hall, a home for retired actors.

Television

  • An Age of Kings (1960)
  • The Spread of the Eagle (1963) .... Coriolanus
  • The Troubleshooters (1966-70)
  • The Baron (1966), episode "A Memory of Evil"
  • The Saint (1968), season 6, episode 4, "The Desperate Diplomat"
  • Manhunt (1969) .... Abwehr Sgt Graz
  • Elizabeth R (1971) .... Robert Dudley
  • Edward the Seventh (1975) .... Albert, Prince Consort
  • Upstairs, Downstairs (1975), season 5, episode 8, "Such A Lovely Man"
  • The Duchess of Duke Street (1976) Episode: "A Lady of Virtue"
  • All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1980 and 1988–1990; entire series) .... Siegfried Farnon
  • Twelfth Night (1980)
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1980), narrator of BAFTA winning animation by Cosgrove Hall Films
  • Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981), Winston Churchill
  • The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, episode "The Master Blackmailer" (1991) .... Charles Milverton
  • Jenny's War (1985) .... Klein
  • Northanger Abbey (1986) .... General Tilney
  • Hot Metal (1986-88) .... Terence "Twiggy" Rathbone
  • War and Remembrance (1988) .... Winston Churchill
  • Middlemarch (1994) .... Mr. Brooke
  • Inspector Morse, episode "Twilight of the Gods"
  • Midsomer Murders (1999), season 2, episode 3, "Dead Man's Eleven"
  • Foyle's War, "The German Woman"
  • Spooks (2003), second series, episode 4, "Blood and Money" .... Bank of England supreme manager
  • Making Waves (2004)
  • Agatha Christie's Marple, series 2, episode "The Sittaford Mystery" (2006) .... Winston Churchill
  • Little Dorrit (2008)
  • Lewis, series 4, episode "Dark Matter" (2010)
  • References

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