Skip over navigation

Cedric Hardwicke


What members say | Filmography | Watch online (5)

Cedric Hardwicke - what members say


  • The Desert Fox
  • The Desert Fox review by A customer from Harrogate
    Rated - 4 stars Good Film, Bad History 12 December 2008
    ... and strong contributions from Luther Adler - a totally convincing Hitler - and Cedric Hardwicke. Henry Hathaway's direction is typically gritty - the documentary style he used...  

Cedric Hardwicke - filmography


  • The Ten Commandments on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  Edward G. Robinson,  Yul Brynner
    Director: Cecil B. DeMille
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: £2.49
    This spectacular biblical epic from legendary showman Cecil B. DeMille tells the story of Moses from his infancy to the triumphant moment when he led the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt. The film begins as the pharaoh's daughter (Yvonne De Carlo) discovers the abandoned infant Moses and takes ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,011 members
    Sign up Watch now (£2.49)
  • Richard III on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Laurence Olivier,  John Gielgud,  Ralph Richardson
    Director: Laurence Olivier
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package.
    Soon after Edward IV is crowned King, his brother, Richard, a hunchback, twisted in mind as well as body, starts scheming for the throne of England. He woos and wins Lady Anne and then poisons Edward's mind against their brother, Clarence, later organising his death. But even after his coronation, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 729 members
    Sign up Watch now (With unlimited package)
  • The Desert Fox on DVD (1951)
    Starring: James Mason,  Cedric Hardwicke,  Jessica Tandy
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    James Mason delivers a strong performance in the title role of this sympathetic study of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. In the early '40s, Rommel's juggernaut Afrika Korps dominated North Africa. But as the tide turned and he came to the painful realization that his Fuhrer, to whom he had sworn ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 627 members
    Sign up
  • Mr Imperium on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Lana Turner,  Ezio Pinza,  Marjorie Main
    Director: Don Hartman
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The story of nightclub singer Fredda Barlo who meets and falls in love with a man whilst on holiday in Italy. The man actually turns out to be a crown prince but the pair don't meet again until ten years later...
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 28% from 36 members
    Sign up
  • Rope on DVD (1948)
    Starring: James Stewart,  John Dall,  Farley Granger
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the famous Leopold and Loeb murder case (from which two other films, COMPULSION and SWOON, were also derived), ROPE both challenges and terrifies the audience. Alfred Hitchcock disdained the whodunit crime story, which he felt lacked emotional force, and ROPE shows the director's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 5,052 members
    Sign up
  • I Remember Mama (1948)
    Starring: Irene Dunne,  Barbara Bel Geddes,  Oskar Homolka
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Irene Dunne stars in this nostalgic picture directed by George Stevens as the mother anyone would love. Chronicled by her aspiring-writer daughter (Barbara Bel Geddes), Mama is the matriarch of an immigrant Norwegian family in 1910 San Francisco. She and her husband bring up their four children ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 3 members
    Sign up
  • Nicholas Nickleby on DVD (1947)
    Starring: Cedric Hardwicke,  Stanley Holloway,  Alfred Drayton
    Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When Nicholas Nickleby's father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in Yorkshire. Nicholas flees the school taking with him one of the persecuted boys, Smike, and they join a troop of actors. ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 163 members
    Sign up
  • Tycoon on DVD (1947)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Laraine Day,  Cedric Hardwicke
    Director: Richard Wallace
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Tycoon stars John Wayne as Johnny Monroe, a contractor who becomes embroiled in a personal and professional battle with a powerful millionaire Frederick Alexander who plans to build a railroad in South America. The battle heightens when Monroe falls in love with Maura, Alexander's beautiful, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 95 members
    Sign up
  • Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
    Starring: Paul Muni,  Anna Lee,  Lillian Gish
    Director: John Farrow
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    During World War II, simple Norwegian fisherman Erik Toresen (Paul Muni) finds his peaceful village under siege by the Nazis. After an elderly villager is tortured by the invaders, Toresen mobilizes the members of his community villagers and leads them on their way to becoming a fierce troop to be ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 4 members
    Sign up
  • Suspicion on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Joan Fontaine,  Cedric Hardwicke
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Cary Grant and Oscar-winner Joan Fontaine star in this Hitchcock thriller in which Fontaine (as Lina) suspects Grant (as her husband) of trying to murder her. The plot is typical of Hitchcock, a brain twister sewing together a series of circumstantial events that leads Lina to the inevitable ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,947 member
    Sign up
  • Things To Come (1936)
    Starring: Raymond Massey,  Ralph Richardson,  Ann Todd
    Director: William Cameron Menzies
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package.
    A visually sweeping sci-fi classic full of futuristic vistas and modern cityscapes, based on the story by H.G. Wells and written for the screen by Wells. Beginning before World War II and travelling to 2036 AD, this journey predicts a host of modernities before following a rocketship to the moon. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 437 members
    Sign up Watch now (With unlimited package)
  • The Ghoul on DVD (1934)
    Starring: Boris Karloff,  Cedric Hardwicke,  Ernest Thesiger
    Director: T. Hayes Hunter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package.
    Boris Karloff's first British film. The story of Prof. Morlant, an eccentric Egyptologist who becomes obsessed with the mystical powers of the ancient Egyptian gods. On his deathbed he orders his servant to bind a sacred jewel called 'The Eternal Light' to his hand. He warns that if the jewel is ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 164 members
    Sign up Watch now (With unlimited package)

Cedric Hardwicke - watch online


  • The Ten Commandments to Watch Now (1956)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  Edward G. Robinson,  Yul Brynner
    Director: Cecil B. DeMille
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 202 minutes
    This spectacular biblical epic from legendary showman Cecil B. DeMille tells the story of Moses from his infancy to the triumphant moment when he led the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt. The film begins as the pharaoh's daughter (Yvonne De Carlo) discovers the abandoned infant Moses and takes ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Watch now (£2.49)
  • Richard III to Watch Now (1955)
    Starring: Cedric Hardwicke,  Laurence Olivier,  Nicholas Hannen
    Director: Laurence Olivier
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
    Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package.
    Run time: 161 minutes
    Laurence Olivier takes the lead role in Shakespeare’s Richard III for which he won a BAFTA and was nominated for an Oscar®. The film, now fully restored in High Definition, also won a BAFTA for Best Film and Best British Film. The cast includes Sir John Gielgud (Arthur; Shine), Sir Ralph ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 83% from 6 members
    Watch now (With unlimited package)
  • Things to Come to Watch Now (1936)
    Starring: Raymond Massey,  Edward Chapman,  Ralph Richardson
    Director: William Cameron Menzies
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
    Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package.
    Run time: 90 minutes
    A global war begins in 1940. This war drags out over many decades until most of the people still alive (mostly those born after the war started) do not even know who started it or why. Nothing is being manufactured at all any more and society has broken down into primative localized communities. In ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 78% from 7 members
    Watch now (With unlimited package)
  • King Solomons Mines to Watch Now (1936)
    Starring: Paul Robeson,  Cedric Hardwicke,  Roalnd Young
    Director: Robert Stevenson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
    Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package.
    Run time: 80 minutes
    Based on Rider Haggard's novel, this is the first, and according to many, the best, cinematic version of the story. Set in Africa, it tells the story of a group of explorers in search of a diamond mine. To find it, they persuade an exiled chief to help them. An historic and very cinematic epic.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 36% from 5 members
    Watch now (With unlimited package)
  • Ghoul to Watch Now (1934)
    Starring: Boris Karloff,  Cedric Hardwicke,  Ernest Thesiger
    Director: T. Hayes Hunter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
    Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package.
    Run time: 45 minutes
    Boris Karloff's first British film. The story of Professor Morlant, an eccentric Egyptologist who becomes obsessed with the mystical powers of the ancient Egyptian gods. On his deathbed he orders his servant to bind a sacred jewel called 'The Eternal Light' to his hand. He warns that if the jewel ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 2 members
    Watch now (With unlimited package)

Cedric Hardwicke facts

5 most recent films

The Ten Commandments - 3.5 stars
Helen Of Troy - 2.5 stars
Richard III - 3.0 stars
The Desert Fox - 3.5 stars
Mr Imperium - 1.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Rope - 3.5 stars
The Winslow Boy - 3.5 stars
The Ten Commandments - 3.5 stars
The Desert Fox - 3.5 stars
Things To Come - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Mr Imperium - 1.5 stars
Commandos Strike at Dawn - 2.5 stars
I Remember Mama - 2.5 stars
Nicholas Nickleby - 3.0 stars
Paul Robeson Collection - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ralph Richardson - 4 times - show films
Ernest Thesiger - 3 times - show films
Judith Anderson - 3 times - show films
Kathleen Harrison - 3 times - show films
Ann Todd - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alberto Cavalcanti - 2 times - show films
T. Hayes Hunter - 2 times - show films
Robert Stevenson - 2 times - show films
Cecil B. DeMille - 2 times - show films
Alfred Hitchcock - 2 times - show films