Biography
Robert Hardy
Acting
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 c…
Career works
151
Movies
78
Series
73
Career average
6.9/10
Birth date
10/29/1925
Place of birth
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Date of death
08/03/2017
Filmography highlights
Movies
Joseph's Reel
2015 · 5.0
Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain
2015
Narnia's Lost Poet: The Secret Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis
2013 · 6.9
Margaret
2009 · 5.7
Centenary: The BP Story
2009
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 · 7.7
Goodbye Mr Snuggles
2006 · 7.0
Lassie
2005 · 6.4
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005 · 7.8
Making Waves
2004 · 6.8
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · 8.0
Lucky Jim
2003 · 7.0
The Gathering
2003 · 5.6
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 · 7.7
Bertie and Elizabeth
2002 · 6.4
Series
Lewis
2007 · 7.6
Le Grand Charles
2006 · 10.0
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · 7.8
Death in Holy Orders
2003 · 6.9
Foyle's War
2002 · 7.8
Spooks
2002 · 7.7
Shackleton
2002 · 7.2
The Lost World
2001 · 7.5
The 10th Kingdom
2000 · 7.6
Nancherrow
1999 · 8.0
Midsomer Murders
1997 · 7.5
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996 · 7.0
Gulliver's Travels
1996 · 7.2
Bramwell
1995 · 4.2
Middlemarch
1994 · 7.9