Cedric Hardwicke

Cedric Hardwicke

February 18, 1893

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 inclu…

Known For

27 titles
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Rope

Rope

1948 · 1h 20m · Movie

Two young men murder a former classmate as a test of their intellectual and moral superiority, then hide the body as they host a dinner party attended by the victim's girlfriend and father, as well as their former schoolmaster and...

7.9
2
The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

1956 · 3h 40m · Movie

Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.

7.9
3
Suspicion

Suspicion

1941 · 1h 39m · Movie

A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.

7.2
4
The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds

1953 · 1h 27m · Movie

A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.

7.0
5
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939 · 1h 56m · Movie

In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

7.8
6
Things to Come

Things to Come

1936 · 1h 40m · Movie

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

6.6
7
The Ghost of Frankenstein

The Ghost of Frankenstein

1942 · 1h 7m · Movie

Dr. Frankenstein's plans to replace the brain of his monster are hijacked by his scheming and malevolent assistant Ygor.

6.1
8
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

1951 · 1h 28m · Movie

The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.

6.9
9
I Remember Mama

I Remember Mama

1948 · 2h 14m · Movie

A young writer recalls her ups and downs of growing up as one of four children to Norwegian immigrant parents in 1910s San Francisco.

7.9
10
Richard III

Richard III

1955 · 2h 41m · Movie

A tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.

7.3
11
The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns

1940 · 1h 21m · Movie

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

6.5
12
Lured

Lured

1947 · 1h 42m · Movie

British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.

7.0
13
The Lodger

The Lodger

1944 · 1h 24m · Movie

A landlady suspects that her new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

7.0
14
The Ghoul

The Ghoul

1933 · 1h 17m · Movie

An Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.

5.8
15
Invisible Agent

Invisible Agent

1942 · 1h 21m · Movie

The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.

5.9
16
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1949 · 1h 46m · Movie

A singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.

6.5
17
Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy

1956 · 1h 58m · Movie

The Iliad's story of the Trojan war, told from the Trojan viewpoint.

6.1
18
On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time

1939 · 1h 39m · Movie

A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs with the help of an agent of Death and a magical apple tree.

7.7
19
Wilson

Wilson

1944 · 2h 34m · Movie

A chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson.

6.4
20
The Howards of Virginia

The Howards of Virginia

1940 · 1h 56m · Movie

Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.

6.0
21
Ivy

Ivy

1947 · 1h 39m · Movie

An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?

7.1
22
Commandos Strike at Dawn

Commandos Strike at Dawn

1942 · 1h 38m · Movie

A gentle widower, enraged at German atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.

6.5
23
A Woman's Vengeance

A Woman's Vengeance

1948 · 1h 36m · Movie

A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.

6.9
24
Botany Bay

Botany Bay

1952 · 1h 33m · Movie

In 1787, American medical student Hugh Tallant and British convicts are sent from London to New South Wales on a ship commanded by the evil Captain Gilbert.

6.1
25
Rome Express

Rome Express

1932 · 1h 34m · Movie

A sinister character boards the Rome Express on the trail of a valuable Van Dyck painting, recently stolen from a Paris gallery. Much to his annoyance he finds the train populated with a motley assortment of passengers, including ...

6.6
26
Bait

Bait

1954 · 1h 19m · Movie

A beautiful blonde leads a man down the road to ruin.

5.9
27
Sentimental Journey

Sentimental Journey

1946 · 1h 34m · Movie

Julie adopts Hitty before dying. Bill grieves, rejects Hitty's attempts to help. Hitty believes Julie visits her with advice. Bill plans to send Hitty away. After hearing Julie's message, Bill accepts moving forward with Hitty.

6.3