Recent Obituaries, Classic Films Only

[CBHagman]

111. Actor Robert Hardy, 91.

You've seen him in something: TV's All Creatures, Great and Small, Ang Lee's big-screen adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, even the Harry Potter series before he was no longer insurable due to age (or so the story went).

And I remember Robert Hardy hosting a series on ghosts of the British Isles. Safe travels, Mr. H., safe travels.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/03/robert-hardy-harry-potter-actor-dies

His early years as an actor were at the Shakespeare Memorial theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon where, while playing Henry V, he developed what became a lifelong interest in the longbow, later publishing two books on the subject.

In his later career, Hardy played Cornelius Fudge, in the Harry Potter movies about the boy wizard, but he came to national attention in 1977 when he was offered the role of the mercurial, cantankerous Siegfried in All Creatures Great and Small, based on the memoirs of the Yorkshire vet Alf Wright who used the pseudonym James Herriot. The stories and chemistry between the actors helped it become one of the BBC’s most successful and popular family evening dramas.

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Hardy played Churchill on numerous occasions, notably in the 1981 ITV series Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years for which he won a Bafta.

His IMDB credits:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362735/