Robert Hardy

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Birthday:

29 October 1925, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Birth Name:

Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy

Height:

175 cm

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 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).Unlike some British character actors, Hardy has never been recognized by Hollywood and his work in films has therefore been restricted to appearances in predominantly British-based productions such as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) and Sense and Sensibility (1995). He has been awarded the CBE for services to acting. Show less «

Playing villains is half the fun, and you may not be an absolute villain yourself, but finding something in the villain, the horrid creature...Show more »

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. Show less «

[on his role as Cornelius Fudge in Harry Potter] I was kicked out in the end because I was just too expensive. It was great fun while it las...Show more »

[on his role as Cornelius Fudge in Harry Potter] 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. Show less «

[on Daniel Craig] I don't think he's a good actor, but he's very good at jumping.

[on Dominic West as Richard Burton] He was hopeless. He wasn't tough enough, he wasn't dangerous enough, he wasn't Welsh enough.

[on Helena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth Taylor] She was brilliant, absolutely brilliant. She got the spirit of her and sounded like her.

[on Timothy Spall as Winston Churchill] Absolutely awful.