

Actor
Birthday
October 29, 1925
Deathday
August 3, 2017
Birthplace
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Gender
Male
Also known as
Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy, Тимоти Сидни Роберт Харди, Robert Khardi
TMDb popularity
0.8
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 observed that, in the following years, he was called on to reprise the role in such productions as The Woman He Loved (1988) and War and Remembrance (1988). Unlike some British character…
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Great Performances
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The Saint
1962 • TV
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Spooks
2002 • TV
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Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 • TV
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 • Movie
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Sherlock Holmes
1984 • TV
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005 • Movie
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 • Movie
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Natural World
1983 • TV
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