Cedric Webster Hardwicke
Sign | Pisces |
Born | Feb 19, 1893 Lye, Worcestershire |
Died | Aug 6, 1964 New York City, NY |
Age | Died at 71 |
Final Resting PlaceGolders Green Crematorium |
Cedric Hardwicke | |
Job | Actor |
Years active | 1913-64 |
Top Roles | General McLaidlaw, Bishop Bienvenu, Dr. James Libbard, Lord Pendragon / King Arthur, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge |
Top Genres | Drama, Romance, Historical, Adventure, Film Adaptation, War |
Top Topics | Book-Based, World War II, Period Piece |
Top Collaborators | Michael Balcon (Producer), Robert Stevenson (Director), Frank Lloyd (Director), Alfred Hitchcock (Director) |
Shares birthday with | Merle Oberon, Lee Marvin, John Frankenheimer see more.. |
Cedric Hardwicke Overview:
Character actor, Cedric Hardwicke, was born Cedric Webster Hardwicke on Feb 19, 1893 in Lye, Worcestershire. Hardwicke died at the age of 71 on Aug 6, 1964 in New York City, NY and was laid to rest in Golders Green Crematorium Cemetery in Golders Green, Greater London, England.
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Scholarly-looking English actor with imposing, fruitily booming voice, a former medical student and army officer who took to the London stage in the early thirties and played some choice theatre and film roles. He went to America in 1938, at first with some success as a character star, but then in progressively inferior parts. His last film role, however, was one of his best. Knighted in 1934.
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He was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the categories of Motion Pictures and Television.
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Cedric Hardwicke Quotes:
Sethi: Superb!
Conrad Stauffer: It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you.
Commentary: Mars is more than 140 million miles from the sun, and for centuries has been in the last status of exhaustion. At night, temperatures drop far below zero even at its equator. Inhabitants of this dying planet looked across space with instruments and intelligences that which we have scarcely dreamed, searching for another world to which they could migrate. They could not go to Pluto, outermost of all planets. So cold, that even it's atmosphere lies frozen on it's surface. They couldn't go to Neptune, or Uranus. Twin worlds in eternal night and perpetual cold. Both surrounded by an unbreathable atmosphere of methane gas, and ammonia vapor. The Martians considered Saturn, and attractive world with it's many moons and beautiful rings of cosmic dust. But, it's temperature is close to 270 degrees below zero. And ice lies 15,000 miles deep on it's surface. Their nearest world was giant Jupiter, where there are titanic cliffs of lava and ice with hydrogen flaming at the tops, where the atmospheric pressure is terrible. Thousands of pounds to the square inch. Nor could they go to Mercury, nearest planet to the sun. It has no air, and the temperature at it's equator is that of molten lead.
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