Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke played Holmes and Watson in the Sherlock Holmes TV series made by Granada Television.

Hardwicke played at the Bristol Old Vic, the Oxford Playhouse and the Nottingham Playhouse, before joining Laurence Olivier ’ s National Theatre in 1964.

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.

He then played Arthur in the sitcom My Old Man In 1978, Hardwicke appeared as Bellcourt in the last filmed episode of The Sweeney called " Hearts and Minds ".

Hardwicke played the role for eight years from 1986 to 1994 as a very calm and attentive Watson, somewhat less tolerant of Holmes ' more outlandish moods, and became permanently associated with it, also playing it on the West End stage with Brett in The Secret of Sherlock Holmes in 1989.

He played many classical roles on stage, appearing at London's top theatres, making his name on the stage performing works by George Bernard Shaw, who said that Hardwicke was his fifth favourite actor after the four Marx Brothers.

( Frollo and Jones are among the few truly evil characters that Hardwicke played.

He has been played several times in adaptations of Tom Brown's School Days, including by Sir Cedric Hardwicke in the 1940 version, Iain Cuthbertson in the 1971 version and Stephen Fry in the 2005 version.

Osborne Gordon, the influential Oxford don, Sir John Josiah Guest, engineer, entrepreneur, and Member of Parliament, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the Hollywood character actor, Ralph Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen, an influential Victorian civil servant ; Dr William Macmichael, physician to Kings George IV and William IV and author of The Gold-Headed Cane, Bishop Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and author of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Henry John Roby, the classical scholar, writer on Roman law, and Member of Parliament, Bishop Francis Henry Thicknesse, inaugural Suffragan Bishop of Leicester, General Sir Charles Warren, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police during the period of the Jack the Ripper Murders and a General in the Second Boer War, and Cyril Washbrook, the cricketer who played for Lancashire and England.

Arnold was portrayed by Cedric Hardwicke and the title role was played by Jimmy Lydon.

While studying at Cambridge University, Hardwicke played first-class cricket on four occasions for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1856 and 1857.

He also played the vicious bully Flashman in the 1940 Tom Brown's School Days opposite Cedric Hardwicke and Freddie Bartholomew.

Actress Katharine Cornell produced and starred in a 1946 production at the National Theatre in Washington, D. C. Sir Cedric Hardwicke played the role of King Creon.

He is played by Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

However, the spirit of Henry Frankenstein ( also played by Hardwicke sans moustache, as original actor Colin Clive had died in 1937 ) appeared before his son and implored him to reconsider, persuading Ludwig to use his talent at brain surgery to simply give the Monster another brain to replace the abnormal, criminal one.

For the cast, the invisible agent is played by Jon Hall, with Peter Lorre and Sir Cedric Hardwicke ( who played another villain in The Invisible Man Returns ) performing as members of the axis, and Ilona Massey and Albert Basserman as allied spies.

* In the Jeremy Brett – Edward Hardwicke The Return of Sherlock Holmes series episode " The Priory School ", mention is made that ancestors of the Duke of Holdernesse, apart from being cattle thieves, may have provided a member of the Hellfire Club ; however, no such reference is set forth in the original story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

It was filmed in Italy, and featured well-known British character actors such as Harry Andrews, Cedric Hardwicke, and Torin Thatcher in supporting roles.

As one of the leading Shavian actors of his generation, Hardwicke starred in such Shavian works as Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, The Apple Cart, Candida, Too True to Be Good, and Don Juan in Hell, making such an impression that at age 41 he became the youngest actor to be knighted ( this occurred in the 1934 New Year's Honours ; Laurence Olivier subsequently took the record in 1947 when he was knighted at the age of 40 ).

However Pitt and Newcastle would discuss strategy along with a small number of other figures such as Hardwicke, Anson and Ligonier.

Some of his plays drew well-known actors and actresses such as Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Celeste Holm, Constance Moore, Basil Rathbone, Chico Marx, Ethel Waters, Paul Newman, Ezio Pinza, James Mason, Jack Warner, Shelley Winters, Farley Granger, Eve Arden, Alexis Smith, Victor Jory, Cedric Hardwicke, Eva Marie Saint, Eva Gabor, Sarah Churchill, James Donn, Eddie Bracken, Ann Corio, Robert Wilcox and Paul Robeson to perform in them.

Throughout its history, The Queen's Theatre has seen such talents as Peggy Ashcroft, Fred and Adele Astaire, Tallulah Bankhead, Kenneth Branagh, Noël Coward, Henry Daniell, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Edith Evans, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Gielgud, Cedric Hardwicke, Jack Hawkins, Nigel Hawthorne, Celia Johnson, Jane Lapotaire, Alec Guinness, Rachel Kempson, Gertrude Lawrence, Robert Morley, Stephen Fry, Anthony Quayle, Basil Rathbone, Michael Redgrave, Miranda Richardson, Margaret Rutherford, Fiona Shaw, Nigel Havers, Maggie Smith, Sybil Thorndike, and Ramin Karimloo.

The type was also used by engineers such as Joseph Armstrong on the Great Western Railway and Francis Webb on the London and North Western Railway – one of the latter's types, the Improved Precedent / Jumbo class Hardwicke famously won the " Race to the North " for the LNWR.

Although these commercial harvests have declined ( commercial fishing of Atlantic Salmon having been banned since the 1960s ), the lobster fishery has grown to become the highest value food fishery in the region, with the lobster fleet sailing primarily out of ports such as Neguac, Hardwicke, Baie-Sainte-Anne, and Escuminac.

In 1939, a popular film called Stanley and Livingstone was released, with Spencer Tracy as Stanley and Cedric Hardwicke as Livingstone.

The film stars Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke, Pearl Argyle and Margaretta Scott.

* Catherine Hardwicke, an American film director who directed the popular vampire film Twilight, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer, was born in Cameron.

Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke ( 19 February 1893 – 6 August 1964 ) was a noted English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly fifty years.

In the late 1930s Hardwicke moved to the USA, initially for film work ( see below ).

* Seti I was portrayed as the father of Rameses II and uncle of Moses by actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments

Thirteen is a 2003 American drama film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, and written by Hardwicke and Nikki Reed, the film's co-star.

After becoming aware of Evan Rachel Wood, Hardwicke came to believe she could make the film only with Wood in the role of Tracy and only that year, with Wood at that age.

The novel was dramatized as the 1969 film, Decline and Fall ... of a Birdwatcher starring Robin Phillips and also for BBC Radio 4 in 2008 by Jeremy Front and starred Alistair McGowan as Pennyfeather, Jim Broadbent as Grimes, Andrew Sachs as Prendergast, Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Fagan, Jonathan Kidd as Philbrick, Joanna David as Margot Beste-Chetwynde, Emma Fielding as Flossie and Richard Pearce as Peter.

The play was later made into a famous 1948 film directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Robert Donat as Sir Robert Morton KC, Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Arthur Winslow, and Margaret Leighton as Catherine Winslow.

* Catherine Hardwicke, American film director

The character of Allan Quatermain has been portrayed in film and television by Richard Chamberlain, John Colicos, Sean Connery, Cedric Hardwicke, and Patrick Swayze.

* Leonard Spigelgass ' A Majority of One ( 1959 ) with Cedric Hardwicke and Barnard Hughes – she reprised her role ( as " Essie Rubin ") in the 1961 film adaptation ;

The story served as the very loose basis for the made-for-television film The Eligible Bachelor starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes, Edward Hardwicke as Watson and Simon Williams as Lord Robert St Simon, the screenplay of which turned St Simon into a villainous " Bluebeard " character who had married and disposed of a series of wealthy women before marrying Hatty Doran.

A BBC television series also based on Reid's book and crediting this film followed during 1972 – 74, and starred David McCallum, Robert Wagner, Jack Hedley and Edward Hardwicke.

) Derek Jacobi ( Cassio ) and Michael Gambon both made their film debuts in Othello while Edward Hardwicke, would go on to work with the National for seven years.

Lords of Dogtown is a 2005 biographical film directed by Catherine Hardwicke and written by Stacy Peralta.

The film has a close relationship with Thrashin ', the 1986 original skateboarding cult classic, directed by David Winters, where Catherine Hardwicke began her career in motion pictures as a production designer and had a chance to work with many famous skaters including Tony Alva, Tony Hawk, Christian Hosoi and Steve Caballero.

Catherine Hardwicke ( born Helen Catherine Hardwicke ; ) is an American film director, production designer and screenwriter.

Hardwicke soon realized this was not the career for her and started going to UCLA graduate film school to explore her creative talents.

While at UCLA film school during the 1980s, Hardwicke made an award-winning short, Puppy Does the Gumbo.