Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy Net Worth is $3 Million Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
One of England's most enduringly successful character actors, Robert Hardy is noted for his versatility and depth. 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 ...
Date Of Birth October 29, 1925 Place Of Birth Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK Height 5' 9" (1.75 m) Profession Actor, Miscellaneous Crew Spouse Elizabeth Fox Sally Pearson Star Sign Scorpio
# Quote 1 [on Timothy Spall as Winston Churchill ] Absolutely awful. 2 [on Helena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth Taylor ] She was brilliant, absolutely brilliant. She got the spirit of her and sounded like her. 3 [on Dominic West as Richard Burton ] He was hopeless. He wasn't tough enough, he wasn't dangerous enough, he wasn't Welsh enough. 4 [on Daniel Craig ] I don't think he's a good actor, but he's very good at jumping. 5 I was kicked out in the end because I was just too expensive. It was great fun while it lasted, the boys and girls were all absolutely splendid. I had a ball fooling around with old friends like Maggie Smith . Thanks to those films I get the most extraordinary amount of fan mail from all over the world, even China. (On his role as Cornelius Fudge in Harry Potter) 6 Playing villains is half the fun, and you may not be an absolute villain yourself, but finding something in the villain, the horrid creature, that you enjoy.
# Fact 1 In the running for roles of Dr.Armstrong and Sir Percy in Lifeforce (1985). 2 On the list of possibles for Captain Rorvik in Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate (1981). 3 On the list possibles for Dr.Fendelman in Doctor Who: Image of The Fendahl (1977). 4 Hardy has revealed he was written out of the Harry Potter films because he became too expensive to insure due to his age. 5 One of two actors to play Winston Churchill in several movies. The second was Timothy Spall , who played the role in Jackboots on Whitehall (2010) and The King's Speech (2010). The latter concerned itself with King George VI's speech problems, and with the scandal involving his brother Edwards VIII's relationship with a married American woman. Hardy has been in two films about this period: The Woman He Loved (1988) and Bertie and Elizabeth (2002), playing Franklin Roosevelt in the latter. He and Spall both appeared in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). 6 Father of three children: Son, Paul Hardy, from his first marriage, daughters Emma Hardy (actress and photographer) and Justine Hardy (journalist and author) from his second marriage. Grandfather of four. 7 Has played British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in five separate films (Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981), The Woman He Loved (1988), War and Remembrance (1988), "Bomber Harris" (1989) (TV), Agatha Christie's Marple: The Sittaford Mystery (2006)) as well as the fictitious Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter series. He has also twice played Winston Churchill's World War II ally and friend, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 8 He is one of the patrons of the Wensleydale Railway, a group that has been set up to re-open the mainly derelict line between Northallerton and Garsdale in Yorkshire, because of his connection with the area from when he played Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small (1978). 9 Spoke at the funeral of James Herriot . Herriot was the pseudonym of Alf Wight (due to legal requirements of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons) and Hardy and Wight became close friends over the years of the All Creatures Great and Small (1978) series, adapted from Wight's books. 10 He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1981 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama. 11 Was a good friend of actor Richard Burton . 12 He became an expert on the longbow when he played Henry V at Stratford. He became a longbow/weapons consultant for the Mary Rose Trust when that 16th c. warship was recovered at Portsmouth, England, UK. 13 His ex-wife, Sally Pearson , is Gladys Cooper 's daughter.
Actor Title Year Status Character Mogul 1966-1970 TV Series Alec Stewart Manhunt 1970 TV Series Abwehr Sergeant Gratz Daniel Deronda 1970 TV Mini-Series Henleigh Grandcourt The Doctors 1970 TV Series Barry Lester Strange Report 1970 TV Series Doctor Sanders The Wednesday Play 1968-1969 TV Series Pontius Pilate / Nick Prockter The Saint 1968 TV Series Walter Faber ITV Playhouse 1968 TV Series Ray Malcolm Theatre 625 1968 TV Series Adriano Berserk 1967 Detective Supt. Brooks How I Won the War 1967 British General Mystery and Imagination 1966 TV Series William Oke The Baron 1966 TV Series Hoffman The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965 Dick Carlton Thursday Theatre 1965 TV Series Anatol Drama 61-67 1961-1965 TV Series Philip Weathers / Adam Irwin The Spread of the Eagle 1963 TV Mini-Series Caius Martius Coriolanus It Happened Like This 1962 TV Series Stanton Somerset Maugham Hour 1962 TV Series A Question of Fact 1962 TV Movie Paul Gardiner The Dark Island 1962 TV Series Nicolson Rashomon 1961 TV Movie The Husband An Age of Kings 1960 TV Series Henry, Prince of Wales / King Henry V General Electric Theater 1959 TV Series Buckskin 1959 TV Series Sir Nagel A Midsummer Night's Dream 1959 TV Movie Oberon Torpedo Run 1958 Lt. Redley Studio One in Hollywood 1958 TV Series The Veil 1958 TV Mini-Series George Bosworth BBC Sunday-Night Theatre 1955-1957 TV Series William Herndon / Orsino / Admetus The Buccaneers 1957 TV Series Lord Hinch The Adventures of Sir Lancelot 1957 TV Series Sir Rupert David Copperfield 1956 TV Series David Copperfield Othello 1955 TV Movie Cassio Michèle and René 1951 TV Series Second Traveller Snapshot Wedding 2017 pre-production Donald Joseph's Reel 2015 Short Old Joseph Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain 2015 TV Movie Winston Churchill Inspector Lewis 2010 TV Series Sir Arnold Raeburn Old Harry 2009 Short Old Harry Margaret 2009 TV Movie Willie Whitelaw Little Dorrit 2008 TV Mini-Series Tite Barnacle Framed 2008/I Provost Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2007 Cornelius Fudge Goodbye Mr Snuggles 2006 Short Mr. Stiles Le grand Charles 2006 TV Series le president Franklin Delano Roosevelt Agatha Christie's Marple 2006 TV Series Winston Churchill Lassie 2005 Judge Murray Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 Cornelius Fudge Making Waves 2004/I Father Parry Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 Cornelius Fudge Death in Holy Orders 2003 TV Mini-Series Father Martin Petrie MI-5 2003 TV Series Sir John Barry Lucky Jim 2003 TV Movie Professor Neddy Welch The Gathering 2002 The Bishop Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 Cornelius Fudge Foyle's War 2002 TV Series Henry Beaumont Thunderpants 2002 Doctor The Falklands Play 2002 TV Movie Sir Anthony Parsons (HM Ambassador to the UN) Bertie and Elizabeth 2002 TV Movie President Roosevelt Shackleton 2002 TV Mini-Series Sir James Caird The Lost World 2001 TV Movie Prof. Illingworth The 10th Kingdom 2000 TV Mini-Series Chancellor Griswold Justice in Wonderland 2000 TV Movie Mr. Justice Morland Midsomer Murders 1999 TV Series Robert Cavendish The People's Passion 1999 TV Movie Pontius Pilate An Ideal Husband 1999/II Lord Caversham Nancherrow 1999 TV Series Viscount Berryan Sibirskiy tsiryulnik 1998 Forsten (as Robert Khardi) The Tichborne Claimant 1998 Lord Rivers Mrs Dalloway 1997 Sir William Bradshaw Testament: The Bible in Animation 1996 TV Series Abraham Gulliver's Travels 1996 TV Mini-Series Dr. Parnell Sense and Sensibility 1995 Sir John Middleton Bramwell 1995 TV Mini-Series Sir Herbert Hamilton Look at the State We're In! 1995 TV Mini-Series Judge Sutcliffe Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 1994 Professor Krempe A Feast at Midnight 1994 Headmaster Middlemarch 1994 TV Mini-Series Arthur Brooke Inspector Morse 1993 TV Series Andrew Baydon The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes 1992 TV Series Charles Augustus Milverton All Creatures Great and Small 1978-1990 TV Series Siegfried Farnon
Siegfried War and Remembrance 1988-1989 TV Mini-Series Winston Churchill Hot Metal 1986-1989 TV Series Russell Spam / Twiggy Rathbone / Terrence 'Twiggy' Rathbone Bomber Harris 1989 TV Movie Winston Churchill Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair 1988 TV Movie Dr. Price Paris by Night 1988 Adam Gillvray The Woman He Loved 1988 TV Movie Winston Churchill Sunday Premiere 1987 TV Series Bulman 1987 TV Series Lord Jonathan Fairfax Theatre Night 1987 TV Series John Garrard The Death of a Heart 1987 TV Movie Major Brutt Screen Two 1987 TV Series General Tilney Screenplay 1986 TV Series Colonel Chase Shades of Darkness 1986 TV Series William Drover The Shooting Party 1985 Lord Bob Lilburn Jenny's War 1985 TV Series Klein The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood 1984 TV Movie King Richard The Far Pavilions 1984 TV Mini-Series The Commandant The Cleopatras 1983 TV Mini-Series Julius Caesar Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years 1981 TV Mini-Series Winston Churchill BBC2 Playhouse 1974-1981 TV Series John Fothergill / Sir Malcolm Campbell The Pied Piper of Hamelin 1981 TV Short Narrator (voice) Between the Covers 1980 TV Movie Bruce Baxter Twelfth Night 1980 TV Movie Sir Toby Belch Mrs. Columbo 1979 TV Series Stuart Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 1979 TV Series Clayton Owner Occupied 1977 TV Movie Major Friedrich Schmidt Supernatural 1977 TV Mini-Series Adrian Gall Raffles 1977 TV Series Lord Ernest Belville The Velvet Glove 1977 TV Series Charles Bradlaugh Meetings, Bloody Meetings 1976 Video short Judge The Duchess of Duke Street 1976 TV Series George Duggan Victorian Scandals 1976 TV Series Mr. Munby Bill Brand 1976 TV Mini-Series Mr. Marples The Secret Agent 1975 TV Movie The Assistant Commissioner Upstairs, Downstairs 1975 TV Series Sir Guy Paynter Caesar and Claretta 1975 TV Movie Benito Mussolini Edward the King 1975 TV Series Prince Albert Churchill's People 1975 TV Series King Oswy The Gathering Storm 1974 TV Movie Joachim von Ribbentrop La gifle 1974 Robert Shoulder to Shoulder 1974 TV Mini-Series Asquith Love Story 1974 TV Series Alec Yellow Dog 1973 Alexander Gawain and the Green Knight 1973 Sir Bertilak Escape to Nowhere 1973 Chief of M.I.5's assistant The Death Wheelers 1973 Chief Inspector Hesseltine Dark Places 1973 Edward Foster / Andrew Marr Demons of the Mind 1972 Zorn The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night 1972 TV Movie Robert Baldick Young Winston 1972 Prep School Headmaster ITV Saturday Night Theatre 1970-1971 TV Series Christopher Moore / Hugo Zeitmeister The Stalls of Barchester 1971 TV Movie Archdeacon Haynes Thirty-Minute Theatre 1971 TV Series The Official Elizabeth R 1971 TV Mini-Series Robert Dudley (Earl of Leicester) 10 Rillington Place 1971 Old Bailey: Malcolm Morris Big Brother 1970 TV Mini-Series John Edge Armchair Theatre 1965-1970 TV Series Albert Purvis / Jason
Miscellaneous Title Year Status Character Decisive Weapons 1996 TV Series documentary consultant
Self Title Year Status Character When TV Goes to War 2011 TV Movie documentary Himself - Narrator (voice) Elizabeth Taylor: A Tribute 2011 TV Movie documentary Himself The One Show 2011 TV Series Himself Channel 4 News 2011 TV Series Himself Building Sandal's Castles 2009 Documentary The Chronicle Ghosts in the Machine 2009 TV Movie documentary Narrator The Alan Titchmarsh Show 2009 TV Series Himself The History of WWII 2009 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself - Presenter Duelle 2008 TV Series documentary Himself - Friend of Richard Burton The Cult of... 2008 TV Series documentary Himself Elementary My Dear Viewer 2007 TV Movie documentary Himself There's Something About... Morse 2007 TV Movie documentary Himself Stars Reunited 2003 TV Series documentary Himself Britain's Finest 2003 TV Series documentary Himself The Crimean War: A Most Desperate Undertaking 2003 TV Movie documentary Narrator Countdown 2002 TV Series Himself This Is Your Life 1982-2000 TV Series documentary Himself Castle Ghosts of Wales 1997 Himself - Host / Narrator Castle Ghosts of Ireland 1996 Himself - Host Castle Ghosts of Scotland 1996 Himself - Host / Narrator Auntie's All-Time Greats 1996 TV Movie Himself - Presenter Castle Ghosts of England 1995 Himself - Host Biography 1995 TV Series documentary Himself A Royal Gala 1989 TV Movie Himself A Night of Comic Relief 2 1989 TV Special Russell Spam Highway 1984 TV Series Himself The Variety Club Awards for 1981 1982 TV Special Himself - Winner: ITV Personality of 1981 The Morecambe & Wise Show 1981 TV Series Himself - Guest Chronicle 1973 TV Series documentary Himself - Presenter Score with the Scaffold 1970 TV Series Himself Call My Bluff 1967 TV Series Himself Henry Moore 1967 TV Movie documentary Himself - Commentator
Won Awards Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie 1982 Broadcasting Press Guild Award Broadcasting Press Guild Awards Best Actor Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Nominated Awards Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie 1982 BAFTA TV Award BAFTA Awards Best Actor Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981) 1980 BAFTA TV Award BAFTA Awards Best Actor All Creatures Great and Small (1978)
Known for movies All Creatures Great and Small (1978-1990) as Siegfried Farnon / Siegfried
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) as Cornelius Fudge
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) as Cornelius Fudge
Sense and Sensibility (1995) as Sir John Middleton