Another two thespian stalwarts gone.
Robert Hardy, 29 October 1925, had a long and illustrious career in theatre, television and film spanning 70 years – his most notable roles were in All Creatures Great and Small, Churchill and Harry Potter.
His father was a public-school headmaster and at Oxford he studied under CS Lewis and Tolkien. He was married twice and clearly had an eye for his leading ladies along the way.
He was a Sun Scorpio, born just 12 days before his great friend Richard Burton. Though in Hardy’s case his Saturn in Scorpio was more separated from his Sun than the depressive Burton who had the conjunction. Hardy had a super confident Jupiter in Capricorn opposition Pluto square Mars in Libra, so he would be vibrant, communicative and fairly argumentative as well as impulsive. His lucky Jupiter Pluto was further emphasised being the driving rod of a Kite, from a creative Water Grand Trine of Uranus trine Mercury Saturn trine Pluto. So Jupiter would be the key factor in his expansive personality. But with his Scorpio Sun and Aries Moon not being entirely compatible, he’d find balancing his ambitions with his personal relationships tricky.
He had wide interests including mediaeval warfare, perhaps a result of his research-oriented Yod of Uranus inconjunct a Mars sextile Neptune. His filmic Neptune was also trine Venus in Sagittarius. A colourful character.
Hywel Bennett, 8 April 1944, best known for Shelley and EastEnders, The Family Way, The Virgin Soldiers, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Pennies from Heaven, has also died.
He was a Sun Aries trine Jupiter in Leo, sextile Saturn in Gemini – so a helpful mix of luck and discipline. His Uranus was in a creative trine to Uranus, sextile Pluto North Node in Leo, so quietly influential.
OMG how I love(d) Robert Hardy, especially in his role as the lovable Siegfried Farnon in “All Creatures.” Still watch the occasional episode via You Tube…..never tire of it. As Farnon, he came across as wonderfully jovial and hail-fellow-well-met, but you could sense the Scorpion intensity. A brilliant actor.