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Also known as Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy

British actor (1925–2017)

Person · Open Library

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23

Top works

  • My Friend Sam Meets Chantale
  • Whole Elephant
  • Elysian Passage
  • You Don't Know How to Change
  • Cambridge Marketing Handbook

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Film & TV

Acting · 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…

Known for

  • Snapshot Wedding — Donald2017
  • Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain — Winston Churchill2015
  • Joseph's Reel — Old Joseph2015
  • Narnia's Lost Poet: The Secret Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis — Self - Interviewee2013
  • Ghosts in the Machine — Narrator2009
  • Margaret — Willie Whitelaw2009
  • Centenary: The BP Story — George Reynolds (voice)2009
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — Cornelius Fudge2007
  • Elementary My Dear Viewer — Self2007
  • The Alan Titchmarsh Show — Self2007

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1925
Active to
2017
balladbaroque popchansonchanson françaisefemale vocalsfrench

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Listeners
150
Total plays
1,503

Robert (Bob) Byron Hardy (born on 16 August 1980, in Bradford, West Yorkshire) is the bassist of the Glaswegian band, Franz Ferdinand Robert came to the Glasgow School of Art from Bradford in West Yorkshire in order to study painting. In Glasgow he met Alex Kapranos . Then, he had been given a bass guitar by Alex, who had got it from his friend Mick Cooke, a member of the cult Glaswegian indie-popsters, Belle & Sebastian on the condition that he "did something useful with it". <a href="https

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Key facts

Born
Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy , ( 1925-10-29 ) 29 October 1925, Cheltenham , Gloucestershire, England
Died
3 August 2017 (2017-08-03) (aged 91), Northwood, London , England
Alma mater
Magdalen College, Oxford
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1949 –2017
Spouses
Elizabeth Fox ​ ( 1952 ⁠ – ⁠ 1956 ) ​ Sally Pearson ​ ( 1961 ⁠ – ⁠ 1986 ) ​

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date of birth
1925-10-29
date of death
2017-08-03
start of work period
1955-00-00
end of work period
2017-00-00
birth name
Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy
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Robert Hardy
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Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy (29 October 1925 – 3 August 2017) was an English actor who had a long career in theatre, film and television. He began his career as a classical actor and later earned widespread recognition for roles such as Siegfried Farnon in the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small, Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter film series, and Winston Churchill in several productions, beginning with the Southern Television series Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years. He was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Actor for All Creatures Great and Small in 1980 and Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years in 1982. Aside from acting, Hardy was an acknowledged expert on the medieval English longbow and wrote two books on the subject.

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