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Dateline: 19th May, 2011
Edward Hardwicke (1932 - 2011) The actor Edward Hardwicke died from cancer on 16th May in a hospice in Chichester. He was 78. He was best known for his portrayal of Dr Watson opposite Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes in the Granada TV series The Return of Sherlock Holmes, which was followed by two more series The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes from 1986 to 1994, as well as two feature length productions of The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Prior to this he became well known to TV audiences are Pat Ried in the series Colditz. He had a distinguished career as a stage actor, first at the Bristol Old Vic, The Oxford Playhouse and the Nottingham Playhouse, and then with Olivier's National Theatre Company for seven years. There he appeared in Othello and Ibsen’s The Master Builder, Peter Shaffer’s The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Charley's Aunt, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Way of the World, A Flea In Her Ear, The Crucible, The Rules Of The Game, The Idiot and Mrs. Warren's Profession. He returned to the National in 1977 for a production of Feydeau's The Lady from Maxim's. Other stage appearances included Uncle Vanya at Bristol Old Vic, On Approval at the Haymarket and An Ideal Husband at the Yvonne Arnaud and Canadian tour. His final stage appearance was in The Winslow Boy at Chichester in 2001. Films included The Day of the Jackal, The Scarlet Letter, Shadowlands, Elizabeth, Enigma, The Gathering Storm, Love Actually and Polanski's version of Oliver Twist in 2005, in which he played Mr Brownlow. His first performance - and first film - was at the age of 10 in Victor Fleming's film A Guy Named Joe (1943) alongside Spencer Tracy. He was born into an acting family: his father was Sir Cedric Hardwicke and his mother Helena Pickard. He trained at RADA after doing National Service in the RAF.
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