#robert hardy

[m-a-salter]

Period Drama Appreciation Week 2023 | Day 1: Favorite adaptation | Sense and Sensibility (1995), directed by Ang Lee, screenplay by Emma Thompson

#perioddramaweek2023 #1995 sense and sensibility #sense and sensibility #ang lee #emma thompson #kate winslet #austen #alan rickman #hugh grant #gemma jones #robert hardy #greg wise #hugh laurie #harriet walter #gif #my edit

[ronavorona]

HP&TPOA vs S&S

#harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban #sense and sensibility 1995 #severus snape #sybill trelawney #cornelius fudge #colonel brandon #elinor dashwood #sir john middleton #alan rickman #emma thompson #robert hardy #jane austen #gif

[petermorwood]

Anyone remember a documentary from long ago (1973) entitled "Chronicle - The Longbow" and presented by actor Robert Hardy?

It's not on YouTube, and I haven't seen it for years - but I do have the associated book...

...so this next bit isn't just from memory.

Besides history of the bow itself, the documentary included several dramatised reconstructions of notable longbow incidents, including a couple from the 1180s as described by chronicler Gerald of Wales.

He tells, for instance, of a mounted man-at-arms in service to Lord William de Braose who was shot through the thigh and nailed to his horse. When he turned the horse to flee, he was nailed through the other thigh as well. That qualifies as Pinning Stuff with Arrows in my book (and in Hardy's, which is where I confirmed my recollection of it).

The arrowhead would have looked like this...

...or maybe this.

...and this image by Robbie McSweeney of Guillaume de Mello ca. 1185 shows armour similar to what that man-at-arms would have been wearing:

If Gerald isn't "drawing the long bow" himself - which means "exaggerating for the sake of a good yarn", and is an idiom still sometimes heard today - then each arrow would have penetrated:

the skirt of his hauberk (chainmail coat),

the gambeson (padded under-coat) beneath,

the chausse (chainmail stocking) under that,

one side of his linen braies (long pants),

his thigh muscles,

the other side of the braies and chausse,

the leather saddle-skirt,

and finally, as much depth of horsemeat as qualifies for nailing or pinning.

Um...

OUCH!

#arms and armour #archery #pinning things with arrows #longbow #robert hardy #blumineck #Youtube

[just-a-twinge-of-cosmic-angst]

Random All Creatures Great And Small Gifs from my Camera Roll

#yes this is meant to be a doctor who blog #but who's going to stop me #acgas 1978 #all creatures great and small 1978 #acgas #all creatures great and small #peter davison #tristan farnon #siegfried farnon #Robert Hardy #christopher Timothy #james herriot #out of context acgas #my post #my gifs

[ivycopper]

Siegfried getting angry at Tristan appreciation post (featuring the yellow waistcoat)

#acgas 1978 #siegfried farnon #tristan farnon #peter davison #robert hardy #all creatures great and small #acgas

[dearcottagewhore]

The Farnon brothers fleeing at the first chance, so they don't have to deal with a scary dog, has got to be one of my favourite All Creatures Great and Small moments

#acgas 1978 #all creatures great and small #tristan farnon #siegfried farnon #peter davison #robert hardy #the way they alway oppose eachother but here they convince one another that leaving is absolutely justified

[nathalieskinoblog]

#sense and sensibility #sinn und sinnlichkeit #kate winslet #emma thompson #hugh grant #alan rickman #myriam francois cerrah #gemma jones #harriet walter #hugh laurie #james fleet #greg wise #tom wilkinson #robert hardy #imelda staunton #imogen stubbs #ang lee

[mariocki]

Dark Places (1974)

"You still think that money is here, don't you?"

"I know it is. And so do you, otherwise you'd have sold up the estate long ago."

"You have no right to Andrew Marr's money."

"None whatever, my dear Prescott. Any more than you have."

#dark places #british cinema #horror film #1974 #don sharp #ed brennan #joseph van winkle #james hannah jr. #robert hardy #christopher lee #joan collins #herbert lom #jane birkin #jean marsh #carleton hobbs #martin boddey #roy evans #john levene #john glyn jones #barry linehan #jennifer thanisch #michael mcvey #wilfred josephs #a fairly obscure brit chiller oddity. coming across this was a big surprise for me‚ not least bc i spent my late teens devouring everything #to do with the brit horror scene of the 60s and 70s and yet somehow had never heard of this. filmed in late 72 and finished in 73 this #didn't actually appear in the uk until 75 but had a US release in 74; Chris Lee was proud of the film and Sharp considered it a good work #so who knows why it fell into such obscurity. anyway. i loved this‚ it might be a fairly standard plot (very like actually a segment of an #Amicus portmanteau expanded to feature length) but it's beautifully done and has an amazing cast. lovely Lom‚ Chris Lee and Rob Hardy‚ Joan #Collins in the middle of her early 70s horror boom‚ and the late Birkin doing wonders in a minor part. Jean Marsh is conspicuously high in #the credits but doesn't actually appear until the final 15 mins.. but when she does... an amazingly chilling‚ disturbing performance

[corvid-ae]

tristaaaan!

#hello acgas1978 fandom #acgas 1978 #all creatures great and small 1978 #acgas #all creatures great and small #tristan farnon #peter davison #siegfried farnon #robert hardy #james herriot #christopher timothy #my edits

[cringe-grandfathers]

this is not what you expected and not even what I expected 🌚 Cornelius Fudge

#harry potter fan art #cornelius fudge #my art #1page1day #artists on tumblr #1p1d #portrait #hp fanart #harry potter #digital art #halfbody art #character art #krita art #sketch #robert hardy #hp fandom #drawing #my artwork

[camyfilms]

ORDER OF THE PHOENIX 2007

I want you to listen to me very carefully, Harry. You're not a bad person. You're a very good person, who bad things have happened to. Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

#harry potter #order of the phoenix #2007 #daniel radcliffe #emma watson #rupert grint #michael gambon #imelda staunton #evanna lynch #matthew lewis #gary oldman #bonnie wright #james and oliver phelps #alan rickman #harry melling #katie leung #mark williams #jason isaacs #robert hardy #robbie coltrane

[ffallennight]

evil eye franz ferdinand ☆

#franz ferdinand #alex kapranos #nick mccarthy #paul thompson #robert hardy #julian corrie #audrey tait #dino bardot #gif #2000s rock #moots pls

[just-a-twinge-of-cosmic-angst]

Random ACGAS screenshots from my Laptop (Part 1)

I was going through my Laptop camera roll, and I found a whole pile of unposted screenshots.....I guess it's time to start another 'random acgas camera roll finds' series

#I have officially given up all pretence of this being a Doctor Who blog #all creatures great and small #acgas #all creatures great and small 1978 #acgas 1978 #tristan farnon #james herriot #siegfried farnon #peter davison #christopher timothy #robert hardy #out of context acgas #my post #my gifs

[thelongbowman]

Robert Hardy, ca. 1960s

#robert hardy #longbow #archery #photos #60s

[kwebtv]

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years - ITV - September 6, 1981 - October 25, 1981

Drama (8 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill

Siân Phillips as Clementine Churchill

Nigel Havers as Randolph Churchill

Tim Pigott-Smith as Brendan Bracken

David Swift as Professor Lindemann

Sherrie Hewson as Mrs. Pearman

Moray Watson as Major Desmond Morton

Paul Freeman as Ralph Wigram

Frank Middlemass as Lord Derby

Sam Wanamaker as Bernard Baruch

Peter Barkworth as Stanley Baldwin

Eric Porter as Neville Chamberlain

Edward Woodward as Sir Samuel Hoare

Peter Vaughan as Sir Thomas Inskip

Robert James as Ramsay MacDonald

Tony Mathews as Anthony Eden

Ian Collier as Harold Macmillan

Marcella Markham as Nancy Astor

Walter Gotell as Lord Swinton

Richard Murdoch as Lord Halifax

Clive Swift as Sir Horace Wilson

Phil Brown as Lord Beaverbrook

Diane Fletcher as Ava Wigram

Geoffrey Toone as Sir Louis Kershaw

Norman Jones as Clement Attlee

Geoffrey Chater as Lord Hailsham

Stratford Johns as Lord Rothermere

Norman Bird as Sir Maurice Hankey

Roger Bizley as Ernst Hanfstaengl

James Cossins as Lord Lothian

Guy Deghy as King George V

Stephen Elliott as William Randolph Hearst

Günter Meisner as Adolf Hitler

Frederick Jaeger as Joachim von Ribbentrop

David Langton as Lord Londonderry

Preston Lockwood as Austen Chamberlain

David Markham as the Duke of Marlborough

Richard Marner as Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin

Llewellyn Rees as Lord Salisbury

Terence Rigby as Thomas Barlow

Margaret Courtenay as Maxine Elliott

Merrie Lynn Ross as Marion Davies

Nigel Stock as Admiral Domvile

#Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years #TV #ITV #Drama #1981 #1980's #Robert Hardy #Sian Phillips #Nigel Havers #Peter Barkworth #Eric Porter #Sam Wannamaker #Edward Woodward

[releasing-my-insanity]

I have a special treat for you all. Gifs of Brian Sinclair, the real Tristan, appearing on Peter Davison's episode of This Is Your Life. Christopher Timothy, Carol Drinkwater, and Robert Hardy also appear.

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#I'm not the person in the comments on that video saying they've finally heard Brian's voice but I identify SO strongly with them on that. #All Creatures Great and Small #Brian Sinclair #Peter Davison #Christopher Timothy #Carol Drinkwater #Robert Hardy #Mine