Robert Hardy (1925–2017)
Autor de Rumpole's Return
Sobre El Autor
Robert Hardy was born Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy in Cheltenham, England on October 29, 1925. He attended Oxford University and served in the Royal Air Force before becoming an actor in Stratford-upon-Avon with the troupe that later became the Royal Shakespeare Company. He had a notable stage mostrar más career, but was better known as a film and television actor. He played Siegfried Farnon in the long-running British television series All Creatures Great and Small and Cornelius Fudge in four Harry Potter movies. He portrayed Winston Churchill several times including in the British mini-series Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years; the American mini-series War and Remembrance; the television movies The Woman He Loved, Bomber Harris, and Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain; the London stage production Winnie; and a French play, Celui Qui a Dit Non. He also appeared in The Shooting Party, Sense and Sensibility, Mrs. Dalloway, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Inspired by an early Shakespearean role, he became interested in archery and wrote Longbow: A Social and Military History. He was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1981. He died on August 3, 2017 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Robert Hardy as Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small.
Obras de Robert Hardy
Sandringham [DVD] 1 copia
The Witches' Pyramid 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Hardy, Timothy Sydney Robert (birth)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1925-10-29
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2017-08-03
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Educación
- Rugby School
University of Oxford (Magdalen College) - Ocupaciones
- actor
historian - Relaciones
- Lewis, C. S. (tutor)
- Organizaciones
- Worshipful Company of Bowyers (Master Bowyer|1990-1992)
Mary Rose Trust (trustee)
Royal Armouries (trustee)
British Longbow Club (member)
World Wild Life Fund (trustee)
Royal Toxophilite Society (member) - Premios y honores
- Order of the British Empire (Commander)
Broadcasting Press Guild Award (1982)
University of Reading (Hon DLitt)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- También por
- 39
- Miembros
- 560
- Popularidad
- #44,620
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 12
- ISBNs
- 32
- Idiomas
- 1
As the book opens, however, Rumpole seems to have tunred his back on life at the London Bar, and he and his wife Hilda (generally known to Rumpole as ‘She Who Must Be Obeyed’) are staying with their son Nick, who lives and works in Miami. It seems that, after a run of ten defeats in court, all presided over by Judge ‘Mad Bull’ Bullingham, Rumpole may have hung up his wig and retired. At least, that is what Hilda, Nick and all of Rumpole’s fellow tenants in Equity Court believe. The only person who does not seem to have received the memo is Rumpole himself.
The plot surrounds the death in Notting Hill gate Underground Station of a minor aristocrat who is found stabbed. The principal suspect is a young, rather dysfunctional civil servant employed in what was then the Inland Revenue, who was found in possession of the murder weapon and a paper on which a message had been written in blood. The case finds its way to ambitious young barrister, Ken Cracknell, who has taken over Rumpole’s old room in Equity Court. Thinking Cracknell might appreciate some help on the issue of the blood stained letter (a subject on which Rumpole is recognised as an expert), Phyllida Trant writes to her former colleague, asking for his advice.
This is just the excuse Rumpole, who has struggled to adapt to a life of relative luxury and ease in Miami, needs, and he boards a budget jet flight back to London, where he gradually claws his way into the case.
I don’t think that the longer format works. Rumpole is as amusing and entertaining as ever, but the plot is rather too insubstantial to support a whole book. There is an amusing subplot involving the oleaginous Guthrie Featherstone QC, head of the Equity Court Chambers, but even this is insufficient to sustain the weight of a novel. This would have fared better if pared down a bit, and offered up as a novella, with a couple more stories to fill out a volume.… (más)