Cedric Hardwicke
February 18, 1893
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 inclu…
Known For
20 titles
Rope
Two young men murder a former classmate as a test of their intellectual and moral superiority, then hide the body as they host a dinner party attended by the victim's girlfriend and father, as well as their former schoolmaster and...
The Ten Commandments
Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.
Suspicion
A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
The War of the Worlds
A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein's plans to replace the brain of his monster are hijacked by his scheming and malevolent assistant Ygor.
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.
I Remember Mama
A young writer recalls her ups and downs of growing up as one of four children to Norwegian immigrant parents in 1910s San Francisco.
The Invisible Man Returns
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Richard III
A tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
Lured
British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.
The Lodger
A landlady suspects that her new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
The Ghoul
An Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.
Invisible Agent
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
Helen of Troy
The Iliad's story of the Trojan war, told from the Trojan viewpoint.
On Borrowed Time
A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs with the help of an agent of Death and a magical apple tree.
The Howards of Virginia
Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.
Ivy
An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?
Commandos Strike at Dawn
A gentle widower, enraged at German atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.