Edward Cedric Hardwicke was an English actor, who had a distinguished career on the stage and on-screen.
18 Facts About Edward Hardwicke
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Edward Hardwicke was best known for playing Captain Pat Grant in Colditz, and Dr Watson in Granada Television's Sherlock Holmes.
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Edward Hardwicke began his film career in Hollywood at the age of 10, in Victor Fleming's film A Guy Named Joe which starred Spencer Tracy.
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Edward Hardwicke returned to England, attended Stowe School, and fulfilled his national service as a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force.
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Edward Hardwicke attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and trained as an actor.
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Edward Hardwicke played at the Bristol Old Vic, the Oxford Playhouse and the Nottingham Playhouse before in 1964 joining Laurence Olivier's National Theatre.
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Edward Hardwicke appeared with Olivier in William Shakespeare's Othello and Ibsen's The Master Builder.
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Edward Hardwicke appeared in Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Charley's Aunt, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Congreve's The Way of the World, Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear, The Crucible, Luigi Pirandello's The Rules of the Game, Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot and George Bernard Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession.
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Edward Hardwicke returned to the National in 1977 for a production of Feydeau's The Lady from Maxim's.
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Edward Hardwicke had a small role in "The Greek Interpreter" episode of the 1968 series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes featuring Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes.
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Edward Hardwicke played Judas Iscariot in the Dennis Potter TV play Son of Man.
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Edward Hardwicke became familiar to television audiences in the 1970s drama series Colditz, in which he played Pat Grant, a character based on the real-life war hero Pat Reid.
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Edward Hardwicke then played Arthur in the sitcom My Old Man.
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Edward Hardwicke played the role for eight years from 1986 to 1994, his first episode being "The Empty House" and his last "The Cardboard Box".
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Edward Hardwicke portrayed a very calm and attentive Watson, somewhat intolerant of Holmes's more outlandish moods, and became permanently associated with it, playing it on the West End stage with Brett in The Secret of Sherlock Holmes in 1989.
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Edward Hardwicke voiced Major Swift in the Xbox 360 game Fable III.
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Edward Hardwicke had two daughters, Kate and Emma, by his first marriage to Anne Iddon, which ended in divorce.
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Edward Hardwicke was married to Prim Cotton from 1994 until his death.