"When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor."
Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke (19 February 1893 – 6 August 1964) was an English actor of screen and stage.
He is perhaps best known for his role as General McLaidlaw in the Alfred Hitchcock film Suspicion (1941).
Actor Edward Hardwicke was his son.
Roles with pages on TV Tropes:
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Film roles
- The Ghoul (1933) as Broughton
- Jew Süss (1934) as Rabbi Gabriel
- Les Misérables (1935) as Bishop Bienvenu
- Becky Sharp (1935) as Marquis of Steyne
- Things to Come (1936) as Theotocopulos
- King Solomon's Mines (1937) as Allan Quartermain
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) as Frollo
- The Invisible Man Returns (1940) as Richard Cobb
- Tom Brown's Schooldays (1940) as Dr. Thomas Arnold
- The Howards of Virginia (1940) as Fleetwood Peyton
- Suspicion (1941) as Gen. McLaidlaw
- The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) as Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein
- The Moon is Down (1943) as Col. Lanser
- The Lodger (1944) as Robert Bontig
- Wilson (1944) as Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) as Narrator (voice)
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) as Ralph Nickleby
- I Remember Mama (1948) as Mr. Hyde
- Rope (1948) as Henry Kentley
- The Winslow Boy (1948) as Arthur Winslow
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) as Lord Pendragon/King Arthur
- The Desert Fox (1951) as Karl Strolin
- Salome (1953) as Tiberius Caesar
- The War of the Worlds (1953) as Narrator (voice)
- Richard III (1955) as King Edward IV of England
- Helen of Troy (1956) as Priam
- The Ten Commandments (1956) as Sethi
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956) as Sir Francis Cromarty
- Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962) as Fergusson
Television roles
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (2 episodes, 1956–57) as Mr. Princey/John Anderson
- Burke's Law (1 episode, 1963) as John Busch
- The Twilight Zone (1 episode, 1963) as Uncle Simon Polk
- The Outer Limits (1 episode, 1964) as Colus
