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Edward Hardwicke is a Actor British born on 7 august 1932 at London (United-kingdom)

Edward Hardwicke

Edward Hardwicke
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Birth name Edward Cedric Hardwicke
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 7 august 1932 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 16 may 2011 (at 78 years) at Chichester (United-kingdom)

Edward Cedric Hardwicke (7 August 1932 – 16 May 2011), sometimes credited as Edward Hardwick, was an English actor, known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in the Granada TV series Sherlock Holmes.

Biography

Il commence sa carrière étant adolescent. Il reste peu connu jusqu'à son apparition dans les années 1970 dans la série Colditz, où il joue Pat Grant, un personnage inspiré de Pat Reid. Dans la série télévisée Sherlock Holmes, il prend la succession de David Burke dans le rôle du docteur Watson. Résidant à Chichester, il meurt le 16 mai 2011 d'un cancer à l’hospice de la ville.

Best films

Oliver Twist (2005)
(Actor)

Usually with

Tim Bevan
Tim Bevan
(2 films)
Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Edward Hardwicke (30 films)

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Actor

Fanny Hill
Fanny Hill (2007)
, 1h46
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Rebecca Night, Alison Steadman, Hugo Speer, Samantha Bond, Carli Norris, Emma Stansfield
Roles Mr Goodyear
Rating65% 3.2923053.2923053.2923053.2923053.292305
Dans l'Angleterre du XVIII siècle, Fanny Hill, une jeune femme orpheline originaire du Lancashire, accepte la proposition de son amie Esther Davies de la rejoindre à Londres. Celle-ci travaille dans la maison close de madame Brown, qui engage aussitôt Fanny. Lors de sa première nuit à Londres, la jeune femme, qui pense avoir été embauchée en tant que servante, en apprend un peu plus sur ce qu'on attend d'elle. Phoebe, qui partage sa chambre, lui révèle la nature exacte de leurs activités. Le lendemain, Fanny est confrontée à son premier client, monsieur Crofts...
Oliver Twist, 2h10
Directed by Roman Polanski
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Ben Kingsley, Jamie Foreman, Barney Clark, Harry Eden, Leanne Rowe, Edward Hardwicke
Roles Mr. Brownlow
Rating67% 3.398663.398663.398663.398663.39866
In the 1800s, young orphan Oliver Twist is forcibly brought to a workhouse in an unidentified town In England on his ninth birthday. He and the other resident children are treated poorly and given very little food. Facing starvation, the boys select Oliver (through a lottery) to ask for more food at the next meal, which he tentatively does. This results in Oliver being chastised, and the workhouse officials, who are wealthy, well-fed, hypocritical men, decide to get rid of him. After nearly being sold as an apprentice to a cruel chimney sweep, Oliver is sent to Mr. Sowerberry, a coffin-maker, whose wife and senior apprentice take an instant dislike to the newcomer. After more poor treatment, Oliver snaps and attacks Noah, the snotty older apprentice, for having insulted his mother. Knowing his life with the Sowerberrys will only get worse, Oliver escapes on foot early the next morning.
The Hollow
The Hollow (2004)
, 1h40
Directed by Simon Langton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors David Suchet, Jonathan Cake, Megan Dodds, Sarah Miles, Edward Fox, Claire Price
Roles Sir Henry Angkatell
Rating76% 3.8432253.8432253.8432253.8432253.843225
Poirot, venu passer un week-end tranquille dans son cottage, est invité à dîner chez ses riches voisins, les Angkatell. Sont aussi présents d'autres membres de la famille. Au cours du séjour, le médecin John Christow est retrouvé abattu d'une balle près de la piscine, sa femme se tenant à côté de lui un revolver à la main. Mais pour Poirot, cela ressemble plutôt à une mise en scène...
Love Actually, 2h15
Directed by Richard Curtis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Christmas films, La provence, Films about marriage
Actors Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Rory MacGregor, Laura Linney
Roles Sam's Grandfather
Rating75% 3.797063.797063.797063.797063.79706
The film begins with a voiceover from David (Hugh Grant) commenting that whenever he gets gloomy with the state of the world he thinks about the arrivals terminal at Heathrow Airport, and the pure uncomplicated love felt as friends and families welcome their arriving loved ones. David's voiceover also relates that all the messages left by the people who died on the 9/11 planes were messages of love and not hate. The film then tells the 'love stories' of many people:
The Gathering Storm, 1h36
Directed by Richard Loncraine
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Historical
Actors Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Linus Roache, Lena Headey, Tom Wilkinson
Roles Mr. Wood
Rating73% 3.6956653.6956653.6956653.6956653.695665
The film opens in 1934 with Winston Churchill deep in his wilderness years, and struggling to complete his biography of his ancestor the Duke of Marlborough, which he hopes will revive his fortunes. Winston is chided by his wife Clemmie for their lack of money and is aware that as a 'man of destiny' his moment may have passed. At the same time he struggles in the House of Commons as a backbencher to get a hearing for his concerns about German re-armament under Hitler and the policy of appeasement.
David Copperfield, 3h
Directed by Peter Medak
Genres Drama
Actors Hugh Dancy, Sally Field, Michael Richards, Eileen Atkins, Anthony Andrews, Edward Hardwicke
Roles Mr. Wickfield
Rating69% 3.489893.489893.489893.489893.48989
David Copperfield, orphelin de père, est confronté à une dure réalité avec l'arrivée de Murdstone, le fiancé de sa mère, un homme opportuniste et calculateur. Envoyé chez un négociant de vin à Londres, David doit surpasser ses limites et apprendre les cruelles lois de la vie. Pour échapper à cet enfer, le petit garçon quitte la capitale et commence une nouvelle vie pleine de danger et d'amitié.
Enigma
Enigma (2001)
, 1h59
Directed by Michael Apted
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Jeremy Northam, Saffron Burrows, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Donald Sumpter
Roles Heaviside
Rating63% 3.1998553.1998553.1998553.1998553.199855
The story, loosely based on actual events, takes place in March 1943, when the Second World War was at its height. The cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, have a problem: the Nazi U-boats have changed one of their code reference books used for Enigma machine ciphers, leading to a blackout in the flow of vital naval signals intelligence. The British cryptanalysts have cracked the "Shark" cipher once before, and they need to do it again in order to keep track of U-boat locations.
Parting Shots
Directed by Michael Winner
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors Felicity Ann Kendal, John Cleese, Bob Hoskins, Ben Kingsley, Diana Rigg, Joanna Lumley
Roles Dr. Joseph
Rating50% 2.509632.509632.509632.509632.50963
The film concerns Harry Sterndale (Rea), a wedding photographer who is mistakenly told by his doctor that he has six weeks to live and begins to kill people who have wronged him in his life, only to find that the diagnosis was incorrect. Also he paid an assassin named Jamie (Reed) to kill him instead of living out his last days in custody and nearly leaves it too late to call off the hit. Jamie takes after the two and after being arrested for assassinating the dictator of a fictional country he takes the blame for all of the murders that occurred during the film. It ends with Harry and Jill visiting Jamie in prison as newlyweds.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth (1998)
, 2h4
Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Films about religion, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Abbie Cornish, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Clive Owen
Roles Earl of Arundel
Rating73% 3.6986353.6986353.6986353.6986353.698635
In 1558, the Roman Catholic Queen Mary (Kathy Burke) dies of a cancerous tumour in her uterus, leaving her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) as queen. Elizabeth had previously been jailed for a supposed conspiracy to murder Mary but has now been freed for her coronation. The film shows Elizabeth being courted by suitors, including Henry, Duc d'Anjou (Vincent Cassel), the future King Henry III of France and Poland, whom she rejects, and urged by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (Richard Attenborough) to marry, which, as he states, would secure her throne. Instead, she has a secret affair with her childhood sweetheart, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (Joseph Fiennes). The affair is, however, no secret from Cecil, who makes it clear that a monarch has no private life. Elizabeth deals with various threats to her reign, including Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (Christopher Eccleston); her Catholic cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, who conspires to have her murdered; Mary's mother, Mary of Guise (Fanny Ardant), who brings French troops into Scotland to attack Elizabeth's forces when they invade.
Photographing Fairies, 1h50
Directed by Nick Willing
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Les fées
Actors Toby Stephens, Emily Woof, Ben Kingsley, Frances Barber, Phil Davis, Bernard Gallagher
Roles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating67% 3.395013.395013.395013.395013.39501
In Switzerland in 1912, photographer Charles Castle (Toby Stephens) and Anna-Marie, his fiancèe, are married in an Alpine church. The following day, they are walking in the mountains when a snowstorm closes in. They are returning to the village when a crevasse opens and Anna-Marie falls into it. Charles tries to pull her out but he loses his grip and she dies. During the Great War, Castle serves as an army photographer in the trenches of France. He is photographing corpses with his assistant Roy (Phil Davis) when a mortar lands close by. Roy returns to the trenches but Castle seems unconcerned and continues photographing. He returns to the trenches just before the mortar explodes.
Hollow Reed, 1h44
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, L'enfance marginalisée, LGBT-related film
Actors Martin Donovan, Ian Hart, Joely Richardson, Jason Flemyng, David Calder, Roger Lloyd-Pack
Roles the judge
Rating71% 3.5894353.5894353.5894353.5894353.589435
Oliver Wyatt (Sam Bould) lives with his mother Hannah Wyatt (Joely Richardson) and her live-in boyfriend Frank Donally (Jason Flemyng) and spends occasional afternoons with his father Martyn Wyatt (Martin Donovan). After Oliver suffers a series of mysterious physical injuries, which he vaguely blames on neighbourhood bullies, suspicions are raised by his father, a GP, against Hannah's boyfriend, Frank.
The Scarlet Letter, 2h15
Directed by Roland Joffé
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall, Edward Hardwicke, Robert Prosky, Roy Dotrice
Roles Gov. John Bellingham
Rating53% 2.6596852.6596852.6596852.6596852.659685
It is 1667 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and an uneasy truce exists between local Puritans and their neighbours, the Algonquian. Chief Metacomet (Eric Schweig) succeeds his father Massasoit as head of the latter just as a new colonist, Hester Prynne (Demi Moore) arrives overseas from England. As Hester waits for her husband - who is due to follow shortly after - she falls for a young minister, Arthur Dimmesdale (Gary Oldman). When it emerges that Roger Prynne has likely been killed by Native Americans, they become inseparable lovers.
Richard III, 1h44
Directed by Richard Loncraine
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Dystopian films, Alternate history films, Films about royalty
Actors Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith
Roles Lord Stanley
Rating72% 3.646263.646263.646263.646263.64626
The film is based on Shakespeare's play of the same name, written in approximately 1592. Unlike the 1955 film starring and directed by Laurence Olivier, this production combines the roles of the Duchess of York and Queen Margaret, widow of Henry VI.
Shadowlands, 2h11
Directed by Richard Attenborough
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Edward Hardwicke, Robert Flemyng, James Frain
Roles This script must be run from the command line
Rating72% 3.6496953.6496953.6496953.6496953.649695
The story follows Lewis as he meets an American fan, Joy Gresham, whom he befriends and eventually marries. The story also deals with his struggle with personal pain and grief: Lewis preaches that one should endure suffering with patience, but finds that the simple answers he had preached no longer apply when Joy becomes afflicted with cancer and eventually dies.