We became great friends.

His uncle on his mother's side was Group Captain Percy Charles Pickard DSO, DFC. I just felt everything was too overwhelming and there wasn't an awful lot for Watson to do and I do remember David (Burke) saying that he found it very difficult to have to react a lot without having a lot of text. He played Albert, Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII) in . This has been corrected.Actor best known as a valiant Dr Watson in Granada's Sherlock Holmes seriesEdward Hardwicke, right, as Watson with Jeremy Brett as Holmes in a 1992 episode of The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. "I feel I'm disappearing inside my costume." "The whole series was a hugely happy occasion. For eight years from 1986, Edward Hardwicke, who has died aged 78, was the face of Dr Watson on television, proving a valiant and reliable foil to the dashing, neurasthenic Holmes of Jeremy Brett in the Granada series The Return of Sherlock Holmes, followed by the Casebook and the Memoirs, as well as stand-alone versions of The Sign of Four (1987) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988). He was educated at Stowe school, Buckinghamshire, trained at Rada in London, and did his national service as a pilot officer in the RAF with Ronnie Corbett, who became a lifelong friend.Other important friendships were formed early on with Albert Finney, Anthony Hopkins and Peter O'Toole. Lovely casts of people, these people were thrilled to be in it, they were *thrilled* to be in it. Close friendships need humour and tolerance. Sadly G/C Pickard was shot down by a German fighter as he headed home and was killed along with his navigator John Broadley DSO, DFC, DFM. That always worried me a bit because I thought - what I *did* feel very strongly about playing Watson with Holmes is that two people who work together in those circumstances have to have a lot of humor, there has to be a lot of laughter. In October 1943 Pickard took over command of 140 Wing flying the all wood De Haviland Mosquito. We both believed that the friendship between Holmes and Watson must be rooted in humour. Edward Hardwicke was born on August 7, 1932 in London, England as Edward Cedric Hardwicke. From 1954 to 1957, he acted at the Old Vic. "Television work became steadier after Hardwicke appeared in the 1970s prison-camp drama Colditz, playing a character based on the war hero Pat Reid, and he ticked off appearances in many major series down the years, including Lovejoy, Peak Practice, the Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Holby City and Shameless. In reality, Jeremy made sure there was always laughter when we were working.

I think he is the, sort of, receptor of the idea. (The couple divorced when Edward was 16.) The role was a perfect fit for an actor who had played important supporting roles for a similar length of time in Laurence Olivier's National theatre company at the Old Vic, but it also demonstrated his lightness of touch as well as his sturdiness.His Watson was not an amiable old pudding-faced duffer in the style of Nigel Bruce in the series of films and radio series opposite Basil Rathbone in the 1940s; instead, he was much more the intelligent, likeable army doctor whom Sir Hardwicke brought a similar resoluteness to the role of Conan Doyle himself when he played him in Nick Willing's strange movie Photographing Fairies (1997), telling Toby Stephens's professional debunker of photographic forgeries about his own supernatural experiences.His authenticity as an actor was innate, since he was the only child of theatrical royalty, the actors Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Helena Pickard. But it was a very, very happy time and he's deeply and sadly missed.


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