Robert Hardy
Known for: Acting
Born: October 29, 1925
Died: August 3, 2017
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…
Known for
Demons of the Mind
1972
The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night
1972
Castle Ghosts of England
1995
Castle Ghosts of Wales
1997
Castle Ghosts of Ireland
1996
The Stalls of Barchester
1971
Speed King
1979
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1980
Make and Break
1987
Making Waves
2004
Paying Guests (Part 1)
1986
Paying Guests (Part 2)
1986
Warm Feet, Warm Heart
1970
Black Legend
1949
Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain
2015
Joseph's Reel
2015
Fothergill
1981
Getting In
1971
Snapshot Wedding
2017
Bomber Harris
1989
A Feast at Midnight
1994
Caesar and Claretta
1975
Twelfth Night
1980
Old Man's Fancy
1965
Lucky Jim
2003
Yellow Dog
1973
Narnia's Lost Poet: The Secret Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis
2013
Son of Man
1969
Blat
1987
Centenary: The BP Story
2009
The Gathering Storm
1974
Jenny's War
1985
The Master Blackmailer
1992
Northanger Abbey
1987
Paris by Night
1989
Goodbye Mr Snuggles
2006
The Secret Agent
1975
The Silent One
1973
Othello
1955
The Gathering
2003
Dark Places
1973
An Ideal Husband
1999
Gawain and the Green Knight
1973
Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair
1988
The Tichborne Claimant
1999
Berserk!
1967
The Woman He Loved
1988
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
1984
The Shooting Party
1985
The Demon Lover
1986
The Slap
1974
10 Rillington Place
1971
The Death of the Heart
1987
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
1970
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
Ghosts in the Machine
2009
Nancherrow
1999
The Falklands Play
2002
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
1984
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965
Torpedo Run
1958
Margaret
2009
The Lost World
2001
Elementary My Dear Viewer
2007
Thunderpants
2002
Psychomania
1973
Young Winston
1972
How I Won the War
1967
Sense and Sensibility
1995
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
The Barber of Siberia
1998
Bertie and Elizabeth
2002
Lassie
2005
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Midsomer Murders
1997
Elizabeth R
1971
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979
Countdown
1982
Inspector Morse
1987
Foyle's War
2002
The Saint
1962
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Raffles
1977
The Dark Island
1962
The Buccaneers
1956
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
1956
Gulliver's Travels
1996
The Veil
1958
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
Middlemarch
1994
An Age of Kings
1960
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981
Hot Metal
1986
War and Remembrance
1988
Death in Holy Orders
2003
Natural World
1983
All Creatures Great and Small
1978
Bramwell
1995
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
Upstairs, Downstairs
1971
Sherlock Holmes
1984
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
The 10th Kingdom
2000
Nancherrow
1999
Manhunt
1970
The Lost World
2001
Bill Brand
1976
Spooks
2002
Lewis
2007
The Wednesday Play
1964
Playhouse
1974
Le Grand Charles
2006
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
Jenny's War
1985
The Far Pavilions
1984
General Electric Theater
1953
Strange Report
1969
Screen Two
1985
Great Performances
1971
The Troubleshooters
1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Armchair Theatre
1956
Shackleton
2002
The Spread of the Eagle
1963
Shoulder to Shoulder
1974
Edward the Seventh
1975
Theatre 625
1964
Churchill's People
1974
The Cleopatras
1983
Look at the State We're In!
1995
European Heritage
1973
Drama 61-67
1961
Mystery and Imagination
1966
Supernatural
1977
Victorian Scandals
1976
The Duchess of Duke Street
1976
ITV Playhouse
1967
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
ScreenPlay
1986
Shades of Darkness
1983
Thursday Theatre
1964
The Velvet Glove
1977
Big Brother
1970
Between the Wars
1973
Private Affairs
1975
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978