Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cedric Hardwicke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Making of The Ten Commandments
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Go behind the scenes of the beloved biblical epic The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston as Moses and directed by legendary filmmaker Cecil B....
Rope Unleashed
2001
as Self (archive footage)
A short documentary about the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope'. Interviews with screenwriter Arthur Laurents delve into the troubles of secretly m...
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
as Dr. Frankenstein (archive footage)
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.
The Pumpkin Eater
1964
as Mr. James - Jo's father
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physi...
The Unknown
1964
as Colas
After two women poison the blackmailer who has been tormenting them, they wind up at the house of a blind man whose eccentric guest believes he has bu...
Five Weeks in a Balloon
1962
as Fergusson
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa ...
Baby Face Nelson
1957
as Doc Saunders (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).
The Story of Mankind
1957
as High Judge
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Around the World in Eighty Days
1956
as Francis Cromarty
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...
The Ten Commandments
1956
as Sethi
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...
The Power and the Prize
1956
as Mr. Carew
An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.
The Vagabond King
1956
as Tristan
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...
Gaby
1956
as Mr. Edgar Carrington
A French ballerina falls in love with an American paratrooper on a two day pass in London near the end of World War II.
Helen of Troy
1956
as Priam
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...
Diane
1956
as Ruggieri
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
Richard III
1955
as King Edward IV of England
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...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1955
as Mr. George Utterson
Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic. Part of Chrysler sponsored series "Climax!"
Bait
1954
as Prologue Speaker
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...
The War of the Worlds
1953
as Commentary (voice) (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
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...
Salome
1953
as Tiberius Caesar
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...
Botany Bay
1952
as Gov. Phillip
Based on the story of the start of Australia's colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving ...
Caribbean
1952
as Captain Francis Barclay
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...
The Green Glove
1952
as Father Goron
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...
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951
as Dr. Karl Strolin
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
Mr. Imperium
1951
as Bernand
A pretty singer/dancer is becoming an actress whereas the playboy crown prince is becoming a monarch. Each will have their clandestine romance interfe...
The White Tower
1950
as Nicholas Radcliffe
Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.
Now Barabbas
1949
as Governor
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949
as King Arthur
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gain...
The Winslow Boy
1948
as Arthur Winslow
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.
Rope
1948
as Mr. Henry Kentley
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
I Remember Mama
1948
as Mr. Hyde
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...
A Woman's Vengeance
1948
as Dr. James Libbard
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
Song of My Heart
1948
as Grand Duke
The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
Tycoon
1947
as Frederick Alexander (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)v
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...
Lured
1947
as Julian Wilde
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...
Ivy
1947
as Inspector Orpington
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger...
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1947
as Ralph Nickleby
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
The Imperfect Lady
1946
as Lord Belmont
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
Beware of Pity
1946
as Dr. Albert Condor
A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.
Sentimental Journey
1946
as Dr. Jim Miller
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...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
as Narrator (voice)
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
French Town...
1945
as Narrator
Portrait of a small French town following its liberation during World War II.
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944
as Monsignor at Tweedside
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...
Wilson
1944
as Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
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...
The Lodger
1944
as Robert Bonting
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Wing and a Prayer
1944
as Admiral
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...
The Cross of Lorraine
1943
as Father Sebastian
French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.
The Moon Is Down
1943
as Col. Lanser
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
Forever and a Day
1943
as Mr. Dabb
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, ...
Forever and a Day
1943
Director
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, ...
Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942
as Admiral Bowen
A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force a...
Invisible Agent
1942
as Conrad Stauffer
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
as Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein / Dr. Henry Frankenstein (ghostly image)
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...
Valley of the Sun
1942
as Lord Warrick (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
Suspicion
1941
as General McLaidlaw
A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust for mo...
Sundown
1941
as l'évêque Coombes
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Victory
1940
as Mr. Jones
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
The Howards of Virginia
1940
as Fleetwood Peyton
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the ...
Tom Brown's School Days
1940
as Dr. Thomas Arnold
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...
The Invisible Man Returns
1940
as Richard Cobb
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
as Frollo
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback...
Stanley and Livingstone
1939
as Dr. David Livingstone
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Afric...
On Borrowed Time
1939
as Mr. Brink
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...
King Solomon's Mines
1937
as Allan Quartermain
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
Green Light
1937
as Dean Harcourt
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 ...
Laburnum Grove
1936
as Mr. Baxley
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...
Tudor Rose
1936
as Earl of Warwick
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
Things to Come
1936
as Theotocopulos
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...
Peg of Old Drury
1935
as David Garrick
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
Becky Sharp
1935
as Marquis of Steyne
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...
Les Misérables
1935
as Bishop Bienvenue (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
Bella Donna
1934
as Dr. Meyer Isaacson
That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Con...
The King of Paris
1934
as Max Till
Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame threa...
Jew Süss
1934
as Rabbi Gabriel
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 ...
The Lady Is Willing
1934
as Gustav Dupont
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap...
Nell Gwyn
1934
as Charles II
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...
The Ghoul
1933
as Broughton
British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlan...
Orders Is Orders
1933
as Brigadier
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...
Rome Express
1932
as Alistair McBane
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
Dreyfus
1931
as Captain Alfred Dreyfus
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into t...
Nelson
1926
as Horatio Nelson
Recounts some highlights in the career of Admiral Nelson, including his battles with the French fleet under Napoleon, and his dalliances with Lady Ham...