Cedric Hardwicke
Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke (19 February 1893 – 6 August 1964) was a noted English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly fifty years. Hardwicke's theatre work included notable performances in productions of the plays of William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw, and his film work included leading roles in a number of adapted literary classics.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 14.118 |
Birthday | 1893-02-18 |
Place of Birth | Lye, Worcestershire, England, UK |
Also Known As | Cedrick Hardwicke, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Sir Cedrick Hardwicke, Седрик Хардвик, Cedric Webster Hardwicke, |
1948
Rope
8/2584
Two men murder a man for the thrills, and proceed to invite his family and friends to their apartment. However, a shrewd professor begins to suspects...
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Rope
1956
Around the World in Eighty Days
6.6/491
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...
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Around the World in Eighty Days
1936
Things to Come
6.4/183
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space trav...
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Things to Come
1947
Lured
6.302/81
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached b...
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Lured
1941
Suspicion
7.129/773
Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a f...
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Suspicion
1956
The Ten Commandments
7.76/1553
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal qu...
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The Ten Commandments
1951
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
6.7/101
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1933
The Ghoul
5.449/49
Professor Morlant, a British Egyptologist, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morl...
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The Ghoul
1953
Salome
5.78/41
In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but H...
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Salome
1940
The Invisible Man Returns
6.2/114
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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The Invisible Man Returns
1942
Invisible Agent
5.8/45
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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Invisible Agent
1939
On Borrowed Time
7.478/23
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future...
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On Borrowed Time
1957
Baby Face Nelson
5.75/26
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).
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Baby Face Nelson
1944
The Lodger
6.4/87
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
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The Lodger
1956
Helen of Troy
6/40
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by t...
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Helen of Troy
1949
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
6.4/27
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains pow...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1957
The Story of Mankind
4.476/21
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
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The Story of Mankind
1955
Richard III
7.2/85
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himse...
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Richard III
1948
I Remember Mama
7/53
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who re...
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I Remember Mama
1940
Tom Brown's School Days
7.2/10
When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a polic...
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Tom Brown's School Days
1937
King Solomon's Mines
5.28/25
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
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King Solomon's Mines
1935
Becky Sharp
5.529/17
The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanit...
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Becky Sharp
1935
Les Misérables
7.2/49
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Misérables
1952
The Green Glove
6.2/16
In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gau...
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The Green Glove
1947
Ivy
6.8/23
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roge...
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Ivy
1951
Mr. Imperium
5.3/9
A pretty singer/dancer is becoming an actress whereas the playboy crown prince is becoming a monarch. Each will have their clandestine romance interfe...
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Mr. Imperium
1954
Bait
5.5/19
A man looking for his fortune in a mine decides to tempt his partner with his much younger wife. The goal? To catch them "in the act" and kill him wit...
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Bait
1944
The Keys of the Kingdom
7/47
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a prie...
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The Keys of the Kingdom
1964
The Pumpkin Eater
6.7/39
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physi...
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The Pumpkin Eater
1944
Wing and a Prayer
6.5/11
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of M...
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Wing and a Prayer
1940
The Howards of Virginia
6.333/9
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the...
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The Howards of Virginia
1947
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
6.4/17
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1944
Wilson
5.5/22
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, an...
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Wilson
1950
The White Tower
5.5/14
Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.
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The White Tower
1947
Tycoon
5.3/14
Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromis...
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Tycoon
1941
Sundown
5.4/21
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
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Sundown
1948
The Winslow Boy
6.9/25
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
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The Winslow Boy
1943
The Cross of Lorraine
6.2/20
French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.
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The Cross of Lorraine
1948
A Woman's Vengeance
6.2/14
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
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A Woman's Vengeance
1939
Stanley and Livingstone
6.3/20
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Afric...
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Stanley and Livingstone
1946
Beware of Pity
6.5/6
A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.
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Beware of Pity
1942
Commandos Strike at Dawn
5.3/20
A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force a...
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
1956
Gaby
7/1
A ballerina resorts to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War II.
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Gaby
1943
The Moon Is Down
6.7/11
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
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The Moon Is Down
1937
Green Light
6.3/7
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research...
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Green Light
1949
Now Barabbas
6.5/2
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
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Now Barabbas
1932
Rome Express
6.1/19
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
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Rome Express
1952
Botany Bay
6.438/16
Based on the story of the start of Australia's colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving...
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Botany Bay
1956
The Power and the Prize
5.5/4
An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.
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The Power and the Prize
1934
Jew Süss
5/6
A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of life...
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Jew Süss
1952
Caribbean
5.8/5
Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and force...
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Caribbean
1956
Diane
5.7/8
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
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Diane
1942
Valley of the Sun
5.8/4
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
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Valley of the Sun
1946
The Imperfect Lady
0/0
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
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The Imperfect Lady
1935
Peg of Old Drury
6.3/3
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
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Peg of Old Drury
1936
Laburnum Grove
7/1
To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he has...
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Laburnum Grove
1946
Sentimental Journey
6.4/4
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She dec...
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Sentimental Journey
1926
Nelson
1/1
Recounts some highlights in the career of Admiral Nelson, including his battles with the French fleet under Napoleon, and his dalliances with Lady Ham...
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Nelson
1956
The Vagabond King
6.3/5
Louis XI of France drafts Paris's popular "king" of criminals as Provost Marshal in his fight against usurper Charles of Burgundy and the traitorous n...
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The Vagabond King
1964
The Unknown
6/1
After two women poison to death the blackmailer who has been tormenting them, they wind up at the house of a blind man whose eccentric guest believes...
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The Unknown
1934
Nell Gwyn
6.6/5
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent comp...
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Nell Gwyn
1934
The Lady Is Willing
6/1
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap...
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The Lady Is Willing
1936
Tudor Rose
8.1/7
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
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Tudor Rose
1940
Victory
0/0
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
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Victory
1943
Forever and a Day
7.2/8
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
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Forever and a Day
1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7.2/182
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1942
The Ghost of Frankenstein
5.8/142
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan go...
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The Ghost of Frankenstein
1931
Dreyfus
0/0
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into t...
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Dreyfus
1934
Bella Donna
3.5/2
That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Con...
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Bella Donna
1962
Five Weeks in a Balloon
5.481/27
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa...
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Five Weeks in a Balloon
1933
Orders Is Orders
0/0
A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't...
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Orders Is Orders
1948
Song of My Heart
5/1
The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
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Song of My Heart
1953
The War of the Worlds
6.823/599
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from...
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The War of the Worlds
2001
Rope Unleashed
6.9/6
A short documentary about the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope'. Interviews with screenwriter Arthur Laurents delve into the troubles of secretly m...
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Rope Unleashed
1934
The King of Paris
0/0
Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame threa...
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The King of Paris
1991
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
5.7/3
Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual look at the history of Frankenstein on the screen.
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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1945
French Town...
0/0
Portrait of a small French town following its liberation during World War II.
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French Town...
1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray
7.116/249
Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the you...
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