RIP Robert Hardy
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You may be right, Nigel - Robert Hardy was a Scorpio, and ......
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This shows what a perfectionist he was:
http://oxfordstudent.com/2011/05/19/a-w ... ert-hardy/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Famous for his role as Siegfried Farnon (based on the character of Donald Sinclair) in the James Herriot adaptations All Creatures Great and Small, Hardy expressed his initial fear upon reading the albeit charming, delightful books that it would “bore the towns and annoy the country”. The vast popularity of the adaptations proved how wrong he was. Under the director’s strict instructions not to meet the real-life people upon whom the book was based, Hardy’s response was to drive straight out to meet the eccentric Sinclair. Interestingly, in later episodes, frustrated with the new young writers for All Creatures Great and Small who “did not do their homework” in researching the back copies of earlier episodes, Hardy applied for script approval enabling him to personally write the scenes in which he acted.
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Very interesting, Nigel. Thanks for the information and link.
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Thank from me too, Nigel - an interesting article. I always felt that a lot of the real Robert Hardy was in the character of Siegfried, which is partly why it worked so well - he was Siegfried! Highly intelligent, principled, passionate, intense of feeling, eccentric, loyal and enormously generous. They don't make them like him any more, sadly.