Robert Hardy
Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK — Oct 29 1925• Died Aug 03 2017
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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:…
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Midsomer Murders
Robert Cavendish
Great Performances
Self
The Saint
Walter Faber
Spooks
Sir John Barry
Foyle's War
Henry Beaumont
Agatha Christie's Marple
Winston Churchill
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Cornelius Fudge
Theatre 625
Sherlock Holmes
Charles Augustus Milverton
Natural World
Narrator
All Creatures Great and Small
Siegfried Farnon
Lewis
Sir Arnold Raeburn
Screen Two
General Tilney
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Clayton
Inspector Morse
Andrew Baydon
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Cornelius Fudge
Drama 61-67
Adam Irwin
The Wednesday Play
Nick Prockter
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Cornelius Fudge
Playhouse
John Fothergill
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Cornelius Fudge
Upstairs, Downstairs
Sir Guy Paynter
Sunday Night Theatre
Orsino
Churchill's People
King Oswy
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Official
The Buccaneers
Lord Hinch
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Archdeacon Haynes
The Duchess of Duke Street
George Duggan
Mystery and Imagination
William Oke
War and Remembrance
Winston Churchill
The Troubleshooters
Alec Stewart
An Age of Kings
Henry, Prince of Wales
Shackleton
Sir James Caird
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Sir Rupert
Bramwell
Sir Herbert Hamilton
Manhunt
Abwehr Sergeant Gratz
Strange Report
Doctor Michael Sanders
The 10th Kingdom
Chancellor Griswold
Sense and Sensibility
Sir John Middleton
Supernatural
Adrian Gall
Middlemarch
Arthur Brooke
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Elizabeth R
Robert Dudley
Bill Brand
Mr. Marples
Victorian Scandals
Arthur Munby
Gulliver's Travels
Dr. Parnell
Raffles
Edward the Seventh
Prince Albert
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Abraham (voice)
Countdown
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Winston Churchill
The Veil
The Cleopatras
Julius Caesar
Hot Metal
General Electric Theater
The Far Pavilions
The Commandant
Look at the State We're In!
Judge Sutcliffe
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Dick Carlton
Young Winston
Prep School Headmaster
The Spread of the Eagle
Caius Martius Coriolanus
The Barber of Siberia
Forsten
Jenny's War
Klein
Psychomania
Chief Inspector Hesseltine
Death in Holy Orders
Father Martin Petrie
Lassie
Judge Murray
Thunderpants
Doctor
Armchair Theatre
Albert Purvis
The Lost World
Professor Illingworth
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Prof. Krempe
Nancherrow
Pamela's Garden of Eden
Production
Mrs. Dalloway
Sir William Bradshaw
The Dark Island
Paris by Night
Adam Gillvray
Le Grand Charles
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dark Places
Edward Foster / Andrew Marr
The Shooting Party
Bob, Lord Lilburn
The Woman He Loved
Winston Churchill
European Heritage
Narrator (voice)
Margaret
Willie Whitelaw
The Silent One
Assistant
The Master Blackmailer
Charles Augustus Milverton
Northanger Abbey
General Tilney
Torpedo Run
Lt. Redley
The Lost World
Prof. Illingworth
Demons of the Mind
Zorn
Nancherrow
Viscount Berryan
How I Won the War
British General
Shoulder to Shoulder
Asquith
The Death of the Heart
Major Brutt
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
King Richard
10 Rillington Place
Malcolm Morris
Yellow Dog
Alexander
The Gathering
Bishop
Jenny's War
Klein
Old Man's Fancy
Jason
Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Bertilak
The Tichborne Claimant
Lord Rivers
Make and Break
John Garrard
Twelfth Night
Sir Toby Belch
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Self
An Ideal Husband
Lord Caversham
The Falklands Play
Sir Anthony Parsons
A Feast at Midnight
Headmaster
Bertie and Elizabeth
President Roosevelt
Speed King
Dorothy Campbell
The Slap
Robert Dickinson
Lucky Jim
Professor Neddy Welch
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
Narrator
Son of Man
Pontius Pilate
Othello
Cassio
Paying Guests (Part 1)
Colonel Chase
The Secret Agent
The Assistant Commissioner
Snapshot Wedding
Donald
Elementary My Dear Viewer
Self
Paying Guests (Part 2)
Colonel Chase
Making Waves
Father Parry
Berserk!
Detective Superintendent Brooks
The Stalls of Barchester
Archdeacon Haynes
Caesar and Claretta
Benito Mussolini
The Demon Lover
William Drover
Blat
Sidney Tolland
The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night
Doctor Sir Robert Baldick
Warm Feet, Warm Heart
Albert Purvis
Centenary: The BP Story
George Reynolds (voice)
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Lord Bob Lilburn (archive footage) (uncredited)
Goodbye Mr Snuggles
Mr. Stiles
The Gathering Storm
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain
Winston Churchill
Getting In
Official
Joseph's Reel
Old Joseph
Bomber Harris
Winston Churchill
Fothergill
John Fothergill
Castle Ghosts of England
Self
Black Legend
Mad Thomas
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Narrator (voice)
Castle Ghosts of Ireland
Self
Ghosts in the Machine
Narrator
Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair
Dr. Price
Castle Ghosts of Wales
Self
Narnia's Lost Poet: The Secret Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis
Self - Interviewee