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Robert Hardy

1925 - 2017

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Hardy is the 1,517th most popular actor (down from 1,085th in 2019), the 1,707th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,175th in 2019) and the 214th most popular British Actor.

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Among actors, Robert Hardy ranks 1,517 out of 13,578. Before him are Eleonora Giorgi, Kurtwood Smith, Charles Durning, Rupert Everett, Niels Arestrup, and Machiko Kyō. After him are Roscoe Arbuckle, Richard Hatch, Carolyn Jones, Everett McGill, Clancy Brown, and Emma Stone.

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Among people born in 1925, Robert Hardy ranks 129. Before him are Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Antoine Gizenga, Lepa Radić, Luis Molowny, François-Xavier Ortoli, and Nancy Roman. After him are Michael Dummett, Pierre Bérégovoy, Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, Eva Klein, Farley Granger, and Jenő Buzánszky. Among people deceased in 2017, Robert Hardy ranks 123. Before him are Joachim Meisner, Karin Dor, Don Rickles, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Luis Bacalov, and George Young. After him are Richard Hatch, Juan Goytisolo, William H. Keeler, Lyudmila Chernykh, Anne Golon, and Miguel Ferrer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Hardy ranks 1,707 out of 8,785. Before him are N. T. Wright (1948), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Harold Shipman (1946), Herbert Kilpin (1870), Rupert Everett (1959), and Frederic Bartlett (1886). After him are Charles Joughin (1878), A. S. Byatt (1936), Henry Bird (1830), Albert Ketèlbey (1875), Michael Dummett (1925), and Henry Thomas Buckle (1821).

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Among actors born in United Kingdom, Robert Hardy ranks 214. Before him are Paul Ritter (1966), Gemma Jones (1942), Emilia Clarke (1986), Una O'Connor (1880), Karen Gillan (1987), and Rupert Everett (1959). After him are Edward Gordon Craig (1872), Ben Cross (1947), Elsa Lanchester (1902), Elizabeth Hurley (1965), Donald Crisp (1882), and Rosamund Pike (1979).

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