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Hardwicke, Sir Cedric Webster

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Hardwicke, Sir Cedric Webster (1893–1964), English actor. He had some pre-war acting experience when in 1922 he returned from war service and joined the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, where his most successful parts were Churdles Ash in Phillpotts's The Farmer's Wife and Caesar in Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, in which he was subsequently seen in London. At the Malvern Festival he created the parts of Magnus and the Burglar in Shaw's The Apple Cart (1929) and Too True to be Good (1932) and Edward Moulton-Barrett in Besier's The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1930), which he also played during a long run in London and on tour. He first went to the United States in 1936 and returned there in 1937 to play the title-role in Barré Lyndon's The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse. After a season at the Old Vic in 1948 during which he played Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, the title-role in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, and Gaev in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, he settled permanently in New York, where in 1959 he made a great success as Koichi Asano in Spigelgass's A Majority of One.

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