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Actor Edward Hardwicke passes away

Actor Edward Hardwicke passes away

The actor Edward Hardwicke, who will be best remembered for playing Dr. Watson on TV’s Sherlock Holmes series, has passed away. He was 78.

Mr. Hardwicke was the foil to Jeremy Brett’s Holmes in the series which screened in the 1980s with related shows in the 1990s..

He was already known to many television viewers from the highly acclaimed series Colditz in the 1970s in which he played the character Captain Pat Grant.

The son of actors Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Helena Pickard, the young Hardwicke’s first role was at the age of 10 in the Hollywood movie A Guy Named Joe (1943) which starred Spencer Tracey and Dorinda Durston.

He enjoyed great success in the theatre, including appearing with Laurence Olivier in Othello and The Master Builder.

He had a long list of television and film credits including Elizabeth (1998) and Love Actually (2003).

 

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