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Robert Hardy
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29 October 1925 - 3 August 2017
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Over the years, Robert Hardy has been known as one of the UK’s most gifted and multifaceted character actors, with enduring popularity not only at home but throughout the English-speaking world. His full name is Timothy Sidney Robert Hardy. He was born on 29 October 1925 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He received his education at Oxford University, where at that time the famous writer Clive Staples Lewis taught. In 1949, Hardy became an actor at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stradford. Among
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Over the years, Robert Hardy has been known as one of the UK’s most gifted and multifaceted character actors, with enduring popularity not only at home but throughout the English-speaking world. His full name is Timothy Sidney Robert Hardy. He was born on 29 October 1925 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He received his education at Oxford University, where at that time the famous writer Clive Staples Lewis taught. In 1949, Hardy became an actor at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stradford. Among the many classical repertoire roles he had played both on stage and in television plays, the most famous was King Henry V in William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Work on this role aroused a serious interest in the history of medieval wars, and later he not only starred in a documentary about the Battle of Azincourt, but also became an authoritative expert on ancient weapons. He has published a work on the longbow and has consulted numerous public organizations involved in historical projects.
Although Hardy made occasional wide-screen appearances, such as The Spy Came in from the Cold (1965, directed by Martin Ritt), How I Won the War (1967, directed by Richard Lester), and 10 Rillington Place (1971, directed by Richard Fleischer), he became known mainly through television. His first notable role was Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester in the television film Queen Elizabeth (1971, directed by Richard Martin and Roderick Graham). Later, for many years he played the veterinarian Siegfried Farnon in the popular TV series “On all creatures, large and small” (1978-1990), based on the works of James Herriot.
Among his roles are many historical figures - Joachim von Ribbentrop in The Coming Storm (1974, dir. Herbert Wise), Prince Albert in King Edward (1975, dir. John Gorrie) and of course Winston Churchill, whom he had to play repeatedly - Winston Churchill: The Wild Years (1981, dir. Ferdinand Fairfax), The Woman He Loved (1988, dir. Charles Gerrott), War and Memories (1998, dir.). No less successful were the literary characters played by Hardy - Arthur Brooke from the adaptation of George Elliot's novel The Wind of Change (1994, dir. Anthony Page) and Sir John Middleton in Reason and Sensibility (1995, dir. Ang Lee), based on the novel by Jane Austen. He also starred in Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley Frankenstein (1994) and Nikita Mikhalkov's The Barber of Siberia (1999). One of the most famous roles of Robert Hardy in recent years is Cornelius Fudge in the films Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002, Chris Columbus) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004, dir. Alfonso Cuaron).
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