• Culture
  • 03 Aug 17

Robert Hardy, actor from Harry Potter films and All Creatures Great and Small, has died

Robert Hardy, actor from Harry Potter films and All Creatures Great and Small, has died
Kiera Magnetti
Kiera Magnetti

After a decades-long career in theatre, television and film, actor Robert Hardy has died at age 91, according to his family.

Hardy is best known as the wishy-washy wizard politician Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter films.

He also appeared as senior veterinarian Siegfried Farnon in television series All Creatures Great and Small and portrayed Winston Churchill on several occasions.

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His family says Hardy had a "tremendous life" and "a giant career in theatre, television and film spanning more than 70 years".

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