Robert Hardy
Born: 1925-10-29 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Died: 2017-08-03
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 (in our collection)
Lassie
(2005)
Bertie and Elizabeth
(2002)
The Lost World
(2001)
The 10th Kingdom
(2000)
Mrs. Dalloway
(1997)
Sense and Sensibility
(1995)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(1994)
Middlemarch
(1994)
War and Remembrance
(1988)
The Gathering Storm
(1974)
Young Winston
(1972)
10 Rillington Place
(1971)
Elizabeth R
(1971)
How I Won the War
(1967)