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