Robert Hardy RIP

[subcontrabass]

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13783739

So much to remember him for.

[cloughie]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...ter-actor-dies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13783739

So much to remember him for.

Indeed so, Mogul just one. Another great actor gone. RIP Robert

[aeolium]

I particularly liked his portrayal of Archdeacon Haynes in the BBC's adaptation of M R James' The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral and of John Garrard in Michael Frayn's Make and Break. He was also a wonderfully reptilian Charles Augustus Milverton in the ITV series with Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes.

RIP

[Stanfordian]

A talented actor! I gained a lot of pleasure from his performances especially as Siegfried in ACG&S

RIP

[vinteuil]

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... and I recall his Grandcourt in the 1970 tv adaptation of Daniel Deronda



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[BBMmk2]

A talented actor! I gained a lot of pleasure from his performances especially as Siegfried in ACG&S

RIP

Indeed, Stan. Likewise. A very good innings though! RIP

[Cockney Sparrow]

Very happy memories, watching the Herriot stories brought to life with the children before bedtime on Sunday evening, before the start of a busy week, and after a busy weekend......
And always engaging whatever character he played over the years.

[oddoneout]

Well regarded in the field of traditional archery as well.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

He did tend to be typecast as a Siegfried character in the Harry Potter films and even in Sense and Sensibility.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

He did tend to be typecast as a Siegfried character in the Harry Potter films and even in Sense and Sensibility.

Yes, I think that that's true - but from that particular type, he could bring a wide variety of "shades", which revealed depths within each character that most other actors would have overlooked. I don't think - to give an example - that many other actors could have quite communicated the disintegration of Cornelius Fudge (such a two-dimensional stereotype on paper) with so "simple" a slackening of jowls that Hardy achieved in so brief a moment.

And, in addition to those other roles mentioned, I'd add the sheer malicious joy with which he seemed to be playing the dual role of "Twiggy" Rathbone and Russell Spam in the Murdoch parody Hot Metal in the late '80s on Channel 4.