Robert HardyFilmography

Lassie

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, John Lynch, Peter Dinklage, Steve Pemberton

Synopsis: Everyone's favorite collie returns to the screen -- and to her native home back in Britain -- in director Charles Sturridge's faithful adaptation of author Eric Knight's sentimental kid and canine novel Lassie Come Home. When Lassie saves a fox from the hunting hounds of the duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole Read More

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes

Synopsis: Directed by Mike Newell, the fourth installment to the Harry Potter series finds Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) wondering why his legendary scar -- the famous result of a death curse gone wrong -- is aching in pain, and perhaps even causing mysterious visions. Before he can think too much about it Read More

The Concise History of World War Two

Synopsis: Presented by actor Robert Hardy, volume one in the The Second World War documentary series, The Concise History of World War Two, efficiently summarizes the political events leading up to the war and details the main campaigns and battles from throughout its entire six-year span. ~ Dana Rowader Read More

Goodbye Mr. Snuggles

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane

Synopsis: After directing the first two movies in the Harry Potter franchise, Chris Columbus opted to serve as producer for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and passed the baton to Y Tu Mamá También director Alfonso Cuarón. Though "immensely popular" is an understatement when it comes to Harry Potter Read More

Making Waves

Actors: Craig Henderson, Susie Benton, Tom Bacon, Rachel Evis, Richard Kinsey

Death in Holy Orders

Actors: Martin Shaw

Synopsis: This mystery centers around an isolated British town in which a death at a theological college, previously ruled as accidental, is reopened for an extended investigation by Scotland Yard. Commander Dalgliesh, a former student at the college, conducts the necessary research at first simply as a Read More

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris

Synopsis: Youthful wizard Harry Potter returns to the screen in this, the second film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's wildly popular series of novels for young people. Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) return for a second year at Read More

Lucky Jim

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1957, Kingsley Amis' first novel Lucky Jim served as the source for this sprightly and satirical two-hour drama special. Stephen Tompkinson headed the cast as Jim Dixon, a tweedy young lecturer at a provincial British university. While trying to curry favor with his Read More

Bertie & Elizabeth

Actors: James Wilby, Juliet Aubrey, Alan Bates, Eileen Atkins, Charles Edwards

Synopsis: The fascinating story of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth is recounted in this British made-for-TV effort. It all begins in 1920, when the then-Duke of York Albert (James Wilby), known affectionately as Bertie, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic, 19-year-old Elizabeth Bowes-Lytton (Juliet Aubrey Read More

Thunderpants

Actors: Bruce Cook, Rupert Grint, Simon Callow, Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie

Synopsis: The family-oriented comedy Thunderpants, directed by Peter Hewitt, concerns an unfortunate ten-year-old who suffers from nearly incessant intestinal gas issues. Patrick Smash (Bruce Cook) is shunned by much of his family and his classmates because of the unpleasant odors that are forever emanating Read More

The Gathering

Actors: Christina Ricci, Stephen Dillane, Kerry Fox, Simon Russell Beale, Ioan Gruffudd

Synopsis: The discovery of a strange religious relic may have something to do with the terrible dreams haunting a young woman in this stylish thriller from Great Britain. When a pit opens up in a small English town, the local priest, Luke Fraser (Simon Russell Beale), is startled to discover what appears to Read More

The Lost World

Synopsis: Made for British television, this two-part adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's adventure-fantasy novel The Lost World adroitly combines a straightforward retelling with an abundance of slyly satirical grace notes--not to mention deliberate echoes of such earlier films as Jurassic Park, Planet of the Apes Read More

The 10th Kingdom

Actors: Kimberly Williams, John Larroquette, Scott Cohen, Daniel Lapaine, Dianne Wiest

Synopsis: This ten-hour mini-series extravaganza originally aired on February 26, 2000 on NBC, and concerns the fate of a janitor, Tony (John Larroquette), and his lovely daughter Virginia (Kimberly Williams), who mysteriously find themselves in a land where fairies, trolls, and elves live. Their attempts Read More

Sibirsky Tsiryulnik

Actors: Nikita Mikhalkov, Marina Neelova, Nikita Tatarenko, Artem Mikhalkov, Georgy Dronov, Oleg Menshikov, Julia Ormond, Richard Harris, Alexei Petrenko, Vladimir Ilyin, Marat Basharov, Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Mikhalkova, Yevgeny Steblov

Synopsis: Love blooms amidst the backdrop of czarist Russia in Nikita Mikhalkov's The Barber of Siberia. The story opens in 1905 Springfield, MA, when a woman writes a letter to a young man in a military summer-training camp. He is currently being punished by one of his superiors, who forces him to wear a Read More

Midsomer Murders: Dead Man's Eleven

Actors: John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard, Robert Hardy

Synopsis: The eighth feature-length episode of the British detective series Midsomer Murders, "Dead Man's Eleven" premiered in the U.K. on September 12, 1999. Having had his fill of Midsomer Worthy, Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby (John Nettles) prepares to move himself and his family to the village of Read More

The Churchills, Part 2: Moment of Destiny

Actors: Ian Holm

The Churchills, Part 3: Born a Churchill

Actors: Ian Holm

The Tichborne Claimant

Actors: John Kani, Robert Pugh, Stephen Fry, Robert Hardy, John Gielgud

Synopsis: David Yates directed this $4 million fact-based British period drama, set in Victorian England and reminiscent of The Return of Martin Guerre and Sommersby. An elderly African-American man, Andrew Bogle (John Kani), dying in a London workhouse in 1895, reflects on the circumstances that led to Read More

Castle Ghosts of Wales

Castle Ghosts of Scotland

Crew: Presented by

Synopsis: Castle Ghosts of Scotland explores the eerie grounds of three of Scotland's most haunted castles: Glamis, Duntrune, and Fyvie. With a history every bit as bloody and treacherous as Shakespeare's MacBeth, it's no wonder Scotland has so many ghosts. The childhood home of England's Queen Mother Read More

The Churchills, Part 1: Aristocratic Adventures

Actors: Ian Holm

Gulliver's Travels

Actors: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Originally aired on the NBC network as a two-part miniseries, this all-star adventure is perhaps one of the most complete and faithful retellings of 18th-century author Jonathan Swift's epic social satire on film. Nine years after he set sail from England, a bedraggled, disoriented Dr. Lemuel Read More

Castle Ghosts of Ireland

Crew: Presented by

Synopsis: Hosted by dramatist Robert Hardy, Castle Ghosts of Ireland presents eerie dramatizations of actual reported tales of supernatural occurrences within the ancient structures of Ireland. Beautiful Irish views are incorporated into the discussion of the mysterious and deep-rooted beliefs of the Read More

A Feast at Midnight

Actors: Christopher Lee, Robert Hardy, Freddie Findlay, Aled Roberts, Andrew Lusher

Synopsis: This British comedy is set within the confines of the snooty Dryden Park boarding school in rural England. The story centers on a lonely 10-year old boy, Magnus, whose parents are staying in Paris and cannot even be bothered to take him to the school themselves; instead, he arrives by cab. Once at Read More

Sense and Sensibility

Actors: Gemma Jones, Elizabeth Spriggs, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Greg Wise

Synopsis: The recipient of seven Oscar® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier Read More

Middlemarch

Actors: Juliet Aubrey, Patrick Malahide, Douglas Hodge, Trevyn McDowell, Robert Hardy, Rufus Sewell

Synopsis: In this 1994 BBC adaptation of George Eliot's novel, altruism, social reform, and romantic love struggle to survive against snobbery, economic oppression, and self-indulgence. Set in the fictional town of Middlemarch in the 1830s, the film begins when Dr. Tertius Lydgate (Douglas Hodge) arrives in Read More

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Actors: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Aidan Quinn, John Cleese

Synopsis: Director Kenneth Branagh's interpretation of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel stars Robert DeNiro as a terrifying monster created in an obsessive attempt to defeat death and stretch the limits of medicine in the early 19th century. With the use of flashback, a dying Dr. Viktor Frankenstein Read More

Year of the Comet

Actors: Penelope Ann Miller, Tim Daly, Louis Jourdan, Art Malik, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: In this film, young, headstrong Margaret Harwood (Penelope Ann Miller) is entrusted with a business assignment by her wine merchant father. While taking an inventory of the contents of the wine cellar of a Scottish estate, Margaret discovers an almost-priceless bottle of wine from the "year of the Read More

All Creatures Great & Small: Series 07

Actors: Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Lynda Bellingham

Synopsis: All Creatures Great & Small launches its seventh and final season, 12 years after the first episode aired on BBC. Within the context of the storyline, it has been some 17 years since veterinarian James Herriot (Christopher Timothy), then a callow med school graduate, first set foot in Skeldale Read More

Paris by Night

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Robert Hardy, Iain Glen, Jane Asher, Andrew Ray

Synopsis: British playwright David Hare both wrote and directed the complicated political melodrama Paris By Night. Charlotte Rampling plays a Tory member of the European parliament, who lets absolutely nothing get in way of her ambitions. At present, Rampling is convinced that she is being blackmailed by Read More

All Creatures Great & Small: Series 06

Actors: Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Lynda Bellingham, John McGlynn

Synopsis: Yorkshire veterinarian James Herriot (Christopher Timothy) nears his second decade ministering to the animals of Darrowby as All Creatures Great & Small enters its sixth season. Motivating several of this year's plotlines is the on-again, off-again romance between James' young assistant Calum (John McGlynn Read More

War & Remembrance: The Final Chapter

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick, Sami Frey, Topol

Christmas at Ripon Cathedral

Synopsis: The Huddersfield Choral Society and the Ripon Cathedral sing beloved Christmas carols from all over the world in this tuneful video. Robert Hardy also reads two inspirational selections. Songs include: "Ding Dong Merrily on High," "Troika," "Kwymbaya," "For Unto Us a Child is Born." ~ Sandra Read More

War & Remembrance

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, John Gielgud, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Michael Jeffrey Woods, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick

All Creatures Great & Small: Series 04

Actors: Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Lynda Bellingham, John McGlynn

Synopsis: Having ended its initial BBC run in 1980, the weekly, hour-long medical drama All Creatures Great & Small, based on the autobiographical novels by Yorkshire veterinarian James Herriot, was brought back by popular demand in 1988. Returning for this new batch of episodes is Christopher Timothy as Read More

The Woman He Loved

Actors: Anthony Andrews, Phyllis Calvert, Olivia de Havilland, Lucy Gutteridge, Robert Hardy, Jane Seymour, Julie Harris

Synopsis: As indicated by the title, The Woman He Loved is the story of the romance between Britain's King Edward VII (Anthony Andrews) and American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson (Jane Seymour). Forbidden by the Church of England and Royal Protocol to wed Mrs. Simpson, Edward abdicates in 1936, spending Read More

Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair

Actors: Alexis Smith, Craig Stevens, Robert Young

Synopsis: Robert Young reprises his long-running (1969-75) TV character Dr. Marcus Welby, though there's little if any medical activity in the 1988 TV movie Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair. Widowed and retired, Welby takes a vacation to France and Switzerland. Here he finds romance with Alexis Smith, a Read More

All Creatures Great & Small: Series 05

Actors: Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Lynda Bellingham, John McGlynn

Synopsis: Having brought the series' storyline all the way up to the '50s, season five of All Creatures Great & Small begins as Yorkshire veterinarian James Herriot (Christopher Timothy) dons skis to make his usual rounds during an extremely heavy snowfall. Meanwhile, Tristan Farnon (Peter Davison), younger Read More

Northanger Abbey

Actors: Katherine Schlesinger, Peter Firth, Googie Withers, Robert Hardy

Synopsis: Northanger Abbey was filmed in England and first telecast in the U.S. on December 2, 1987. This 90-minute adaptation of Jane Austen's 1818 novel incorporates the author's usual interconnecting themes of true love and acquisition of wealth, and tosses in a little Gothic mystery for good measure. Katherine Schlesinger Read More

Now Thrive the Armourers...Royal Armouries at the Tower of London

Synopsis: This video is part of the British history series that tells the story of England from a number of perspectives. In this episode, the subject is the history of weaponry. The viewer goes with host Robert Hardy to the Royal Armouries Museum, located in the Tower of London. The history of the realm Read More

Russian Roulette

Synopsis: In this comedy, a band of financiers attempt to break a Russian gangster out of Soviet prison and use him to manipulate the London Stock Exchange. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Death of the Heart

Actors: Jojo Cole, Patricia Hodge, Nigel Havers, Wendy Hiller, Miranda Richardson

Synopsis: Based on what some consider to be Elizabeth Bowen's best novel, The Death of the Heart focuses on one of her primary themes, a young woman's first love. Portia Quayne (Jojo Cole) is orphaned, and at the age of 16 she must go live with her relatives, Anna (Patricia Hodge) and Thomas Quayne (Nigel Havers Read More

Shades of Darkness: The Demon Lover

Actors: Dorothy Tutin, Hugh Grant, Miranda Richardson, Robert Hardy

All Creatures Great and Small: The Lord God Made Them All

Jenny's War

Actors: Hugh Grant, Dyan Cannon

Synopsis: Dyan Cannon stars in this 4-hour TV drama as Jenny Baines, an American woman of the pre-WW II era. Anxious to learn the fate of her son, a pilot who was shot down over Germany, Jenny travels to Berlin. Here she is reunited with her husband Hartmut Becker, who is now a high-ranking Nazi officer. Read More

The Shooting Party

Actors: Edward Fox, Cheryl Campbell, James Mason, Dorothy Tutin, John Gielgud

Synopsis: This British Merchant-Ivory look-alike was adapted from a novel by Isabel Colgate. In the summer before World War I, British nobleman James Mason invites an assorted group of acquaintances for a weekend shooting party on his huge estate. Among the participants are longtime rivals Edward Fox and Rupert Frazer Read More

All Creatures Great and Small: The Lord God Made Them All

Synopsis: Based on the delightful, heartwarming and sometimes tragic tales of a British country veterinarian who uses the penname James Herriot and the series they inspired, this feature film begins just after WW II as Herriot, who served as an army veterinarian, returns home and tries to readjust to his Read More

Fothergill

Synopsis: Made for British television, Fothergill is based on a true story. Robert Hardy portrays Fothergill, a scholar who renounces academia to become a innkeeper. Throughout the 1920s, Fothergill's establishment is the place to be for London's smart set, with the genial host pulling all the proper social Read More

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

Actors: Robert Hardy, Sian Phillips, Nigel Havers, Chloe Salaman, Tamsin Murray-Leach

Synopsis: As indicated by its title, this British miniseries concentrated on the years between the two world wars, when the eminent Winston Churchill (Robert Hardy) was politically out of favor in his own country. Acutely aware of the danger looming in a newly re-armed Germany, Churchill vainly tried to Read More

Quincy, M.E.: TKO

Synopsis: A professional boxer (Herb Jefferson Jr.) refuses to accept the official verdict that he delivered a fatal blow to his opponent, who collapses and dies several days after the fight.. At the same time, a chef (Pete Schrum) who works for Quincy's friend Danny (Val Bisoglio) unexpectedly dies after Read More

Twelfth Night

Actors: Felicity Kendal, Alec McCowen, Trevor Peacock

Synopsis: Part of the TV series entitled "The Shakespeare Plays," this is one of the subtlest and most enjoyable of the Shakespearian plays. Portraying the different types of love, it is set in a country house of aristocrats and there are practical jokes, poetry and songs that make this a most entertaining Read More

All Creatures Great & Small: Series 03

Actors: Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Carol Drinkwater

Synopsis: Season three of All Creatures Great & Small begins with one of the series' customary dual crises as young Yorkshire veterinarian James Herriot (Christopher Timothy) and his wife Helen (Carol Drinkwater) try to save a cow from the slaughterhouse, while James' partners Siegfried and Tristan Farnon Read More

All Creatures Great & Small: Series 02

Actors: Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Carol Drinkwater

Synopsis: The second season of the warm-hearted BBC medical series All Creatures Great & Small finds young veterinarian James Herriot (Christopher Timothy) gradually winning over the confidence of all the animal owners in the tiny Yorkshire farming community of Darrowby. But it is still an uphill climb; the Read More

All Creatures Great & Small: Series 01

Actors: Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Carol Drinkwater

Synopsis: Season one of All Creatures Great & Small begins in late 1936 as newly qualified veterinarian James Herriot (Christopher Timothy) arrives at his first assistant's post at Skeldale House, Darrowby, Yorkshire. Here he meets his boss, the irascible Siegfried Farnon, and Siegfried's long-suffering but Read More

The Gathering Storm

Actors: Richard Burton

Synopsis: While Adolf Hitler Ian Bannen builds his war machine, Winston Churchill Richard Burton repeatedly warns England of the dangers the Nazis pose. But most of Churchill's countrymen refuse to listen to him, viewing him as an alarmist. Nevertheless, Churchill continues to press his case at every Read More

Le Silencieux

Actors: Lino Ventura, Lea Massari, Suzanne Flon, Leo Genn

Synopsis: This French spy thriller makes a number of surprising variations on familiar themes. Tibere (Lino Ventura) is a Soviet nuclear scientist who comes to London with a platoon of his colleagues for a conference. When he is injured in an auto accident, he gets separated from them. The accident was a Read More

Gawain and the Green Knight

Synopsis: In this historical fantasy, based on the classic medieval poem during the days of King Arthur, the gallant Green Knight gallops into the court and makes a gruesome challenge to the Round Table Knights. He dares any of them to successfully chop off his head. If they fail, he gets to hack off Read More

Yellow Dog

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Synopsis: Also known as Gawain and the Green Knight, this British swashbuckler features Murray Head as the title character. That is, Murray is Sir Gawain; the Green Knight is played by Nigel Green (apropos casting, eh what?) Intending to decimate the knights of King Arthur's Round Table, the Green Knight Read More

Dark Places

Actors: Carleton Hobbs, Jennifer Thanisch

Synopsis: This tepid supernatural melodrama involves the former director of a mental hospital (Robert Hardy) who inherits the estate of one of his patients -- a house which was once the site of multiple murders. He also stands to inherit a substantial sum of gold... if only he can locate the treasure, which Read More

Demons of the Mind

Actors: Shane Briant, Robert Hardy, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: Hammer Films apply their characteristic Gothic touch to this offbeat psychological thriller about a bombastic 19th-century Baron (Robert Hardy) who keeps his two adult offspring imprisoned in the family estate, convinced they are afflicted by an evil curse of madness passed down from their late Read More

Night of the Lepus

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley

Synopsis: Giant Flesh-Eating Rabbits Ravage American Southwest After Scientist Slips Up! Such is the plot of this unintentionally campy horror outing. The trouble begins when a researcher's experiment to use hormone injections to control Arizona's burgeoning rabbit population goes terribly awry, causing the Read More

Young Winston

Actors: Michael Audreson, Robert Lankesheer, Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, John Mills, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm

Synopsis: This historical drama is an account of the early life of Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament. ~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide Read More

10 Rillington Place

Actors: Ray Barron, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood, Isobel Black

Synopsis: 10 Rillington Place is the true story of British mass murderer John Reginald Christie, played with chilling "normality" by Richard Attenborough. Throughout the late '40s, Christie lures middle-aged women to his London flat promising to cure their ailments with nitrous oxide, then kills them Read More

Psychomania

Actors: Beryl Reid, George Sanders

Synopsis: An annoying devil-worshipping British biker gang calling themselves "The Living Dead" decide to take their moniker to heart when their leader commits suicide and is brought back from the dead in an occult ritual, thanks to a Satanic pact. Realizing that becoming zombies could be even more fun than Read More

Elizabeth R

Actors: Robert Hardy, Ronald Hines, Glenda Jackson

Synopsis: Political, romantic, and religious intrigue confront Elizabeth Tudor (1533-1603) in this acclaimed six-part television series chronicling her early life as a princess and her reign as queen of England (1558-1603). While still a princess, Elizabeth (Glenda Jackson) exonerates herself from a plot to Read More

Berserk!

Actors: Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors, Michael Gough, Judy Geeson

Synopsis: One of the lower points of Joan Crawford's latter-day career curve (though nothing to compare with the later embarrassment of Trog!), this lurid, low-rent thriller nevertheless gives Crawford the opportunity to chew acres of scenery in a campy Marlene Dietrich-style get-up. She portrays the Read More

How I Won the War

Actors: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, Jack MacGowran

Synopsis: Among the first of the late 60s anti-war films that reflected growing concern over the Vietnam War, How I Won the War takes a cold, dark look at the Good War, World War II. In adapting Patrick Ryan's 1963 novel, screenwriter Charles Wood and director Richard Lester offered a narrative fractured by Read More

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Actors: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, George Voskovec

Synopsis: Based on the novel by John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold stars Richard Burton as a dispirited, end-of-tether British secret agent. He comes in from "the cold" (meaning he is pulled out of field operations) to act as a undercover man behind the Iron Curtain. To make his staged Read More

Torpedo Run

Actors: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Diane Brewster, Dean Jones, L.Q. Jones

Synopsis: In the psychological WW2 drama Torpedo Run, Glenn Ford plays submarine commander Barney Doyle, who is obsessed with sinking a particular Japanese aircraft carrier. Several months earlier, the carrier had escaped destruction by shielding itself with a POW transport ship, which was sunk by Doyle's Read More

Blat

Synopsis: This British television comedy involves an Italian/Russian mobster who attempts a slick financial scheme. The title alone should be enough to draw an audience. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More