Edward Cedric Hardwicke (7 August 1932 – 16 May 2011)[1][2] was an English actor, who had a distinguished career on the stage and on-screen.

[2] He returned to England, attended Stowe School, and fulfilled his national service as a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force.

He also appeared in Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun (with Robert Stephens), Charley's Aunt, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Congreve's The Way of the World, Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear (directed by Jacques Charon of the Comédie Française), The Crucible, Luigi Pirandello's The Rules of the Game, Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot and George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.

[7] In 1973 he played Dr Astrov in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya opposite Peter O'Toole at the Bristol Old Vic, and had an uncredited role as Charles Calthrop in the film The Day of the Jackal.

In 1993 he played the role of C. S Lewis's brother Warnie opposite Anthony Hopkins in Shadowlands, directed by Richard Attenborough.

His other television appearances were numerous, and included: Holocaust (1978), Oppenheimer (1980), Strangers and Brothers (1984), Lovejoy (1992), Dangerfield (1996), The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1997), Heartbeat (1999), David Copperfield (2000), The Goodbye Plane (2003), Agatha Christie's Poirot (2004), Fanny Hill (2007), Holby City, Shameless (2010) as a World War II veteran, and Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1978).

Hardwicke had two daughters, Kate and Emma, by his first marriage to Anne Iddon (died 2000), which ended in divorce.