Robert Hardy RIP

[AmexRuislip]

All Creatures Great And Small actor , Robert Hardy, has sadly passed away at the age of 91

I loved watching him play Churchill and in the HP films.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40818839

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

I actually thought he'd died years ago.

 

[portlock seagull]

Me too. But a great act to follow he will be, especially as Churchill. Gary Oldman will have his work cut out when the new Churchill film comes out in January! RIP Robert, a true great of stage and screen.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

He was in Harry Potter too, playing Cornelius Fudge.


Hywel Bennett has also died aged 73.

 

[Titanic]

Siegfried Farnon RIP

 

[Foul Play Rocks]

He will always be Siegfried Farnon to me. R.I.P

 

[Two Professors]

RIP.Remember seeing him in Coriolanus,but his greatest role was Twiggy Rathbone.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

All creatures great and small. Wonderful series and would be interesting to know what the viewing figures were for a series like that ? R-i-P Mr Farnon.

 

[GT49er]

91? A decent innings then. RIP.

 

[wellquickwoody]

I actually thought he'd died years ago.

Me too. May God rest.


Always thought he could only ever play himself though..........

 

[marlowe]

He was in Harry Potter too, playing Cornelius Fudge.


Hywel Bennett has also died aged 73.

I thought Hywel Bennett had died years ago. I used to love Shelley.

 

[Giraffe]

This one has hit me hard.

Spent many happy childhood and also later in adult life watching all creatures great and small. He made that programme how great it was. He was also excellent in so many other things.

One of my favourite actors and everything an Englishman should be.

Sad that I never got to meet him and tell him how much joy he gave to so many.

An icon.

 

[Hillian1]

Was a leading authority on the English Longbow.

 

[richmond]

One of his finest performances was playing Charles Augustus Milverton, opposite Jeremy Brett in Sherlock Holmes 'The Master Blackmailer. He was superb!

 

[The Clamp]

I met him and chatted to him as a youth. He was a patron at my school and would turn up a few times a year to give an assembly or open a facility or some such thing.
He seemed nice.

 

[jakarta]

Definitive Churchill (aside from the original obviously!)...

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

He was in Harry Potter too, playing Cornelius Fudge.


Hywel Bennett has also died aged 73.

Didn't hear about Hywel Bennett. Sad to hear this as 'Percy' was a fond memory from the 70s.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Didn't hear about Hywel Bennett. Sad to hear this as 'Percy' was a fond memory from the 70s.

Yes, also Shelley, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and an old film with Hayley & John Mills, The Family Way.

 

[1234andcounting]

Two fine actors. Hywel Bennett as Rikki Tarr in Tinker Tailor was superb, as were the entire cast. Are any of the cast still alive? Sian Phillips maybe. Shelley was brilliant.

According to the BBC website obit Robert Hardy was an expert in the English longbow. I always find it fascinating to get a glimpse into the private life of a public figure - not in a Sun expose sort of way, of course.