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3	->''"Playing villains is half the fun, and you may not be an absolute villain yourself, but finding something in the villain, the horrid creature, that you enjoy."''
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5	Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CBE]] (29 October 1925 - 3 August 2017) was an English actor.
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7	He was best known in the UK for playing Siegfried Farnon in the ''Series/{{All Creatures Great And Small\|1978}}'' television series for twelve years and to international audiences as Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' film franchise. Hardy's career lasted over fifty years, his first credit was in 1951 before he came to public prominence in a BBC adaptation of ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'' playing the title character. His first big screen role was the 1958 UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo thriller ''TorpedoRun'' and he never looked back, playing a large number of film and television roles. Hardy was also a prolific stage actor, well versed in Creator/{{Shakespeare}}, and his interest in medieval warfare became more than just a hobby: after portraying Theatre/HenryV, he wrote two well-researched books on the longbow, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries.
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9	He played UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill in the acclaimed 1981 series ''[[Series/WinstonChurchillTheWildernessYears Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years]]'', and his portrayal of Churchill became an iconic one for at least a generation. Fun fact: in the 1974 TV movie ''The Gathering Storm'', starring his good friend Creator/RichardBurton as Churchill, Hardy played German ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop, and he also played Churchill's prep school headmaster in ''Film/YoungWinston'', making him one of the few actors who'd both played Churchill and also played multiple characters interacting with Churchill.
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11	Hardy became so associated with Churchill that he played him again in three more 80s dramas: ''War and Remembrance'', an adaptation of Herman Wouk's [[Literature/TheWindsOfWarAndWarAndRemembrance book of the same name]]; ''The Woman He Loved'', a dramatisation of the abdication of Edward VIII; and ''Bomber Harris'', a drama about the titular head of RAF Bomber Command.
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13	His final roles were Churchill, again, in the TV movie ''Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain'', and the short film ''Joseph's Reel'' where he played a dying man given the chance to relive one day of his life.
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15	Hardy passed away in 2017 at the age of 91.

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