Editing Cedric Hardwicke (section)

===Film and television work===
Hardwicke's first appearance in a British film was in 1931, and from the late 1930s, he was in great demand in Hollywood. He played [[David Livingstone]] opposite [[Spencer Tracy]]'s [[Henry Morton Stanley]] in ''[[Stanley and Livingstone]]'' in 1939, and also played the evil [[Frollo]] in the [[remake]] of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' starring [[Charles Laughton]] the same year. In 1940, he played Mr. Jones in a [[Victory (1940 film)|screen version]] of [[Joseph Conrad]]'s novel ''[[Victory (novel)|Victory]]''. He starred as the unfortunate Ludwig von Frankenstein in ''[[The Ghost of Frankenstein]]'' (1942) alongside [[Lon Chaney Jr.]] as [[Frankenstein's monster]] and [[Bela Lugosi]] as [[Igor (character)|Ygor]].<ref name="imdb"/>

[[File:Sir Cedric Hardwicke in The Ten Commandments trailer.jpg|thumb|Hardwicke portraying Egyptian Pharaoh Sethi in ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'' (1956)]]
Hardwicke played in films such as ''[[Les Misérables (1935 film)|Les Misérables]]'' (1935) with [[Fredric March]] and Charles Laughton, the first ever three-strip [[Technicolor]] film ''[[Becky Sharp (film)|Becky Sharp]]'' (1935), ''[[King Solomon's Mines (1937 film)|King Solomon's Mines]]'' (1937), ''[[The Keys of the Kingdom (film)|The Keys of the Kingdom]]'' (1944), ''[[The Winslow Boy (1948 film)|The Winslow Boy]]'' (1948), [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Rope (film)|Rope]]'' (1948) with [[James Stewart]], and Olivier's ''[[Richard III (1955 film)|Richard III]]'' (1955). He was featured as [[King Arthur]] in the comedy/musical ''[[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film)|A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]'' (1949), singing ''Busy Doing Nothing'' in a trio with [[Bing Crosby]] and [[William Bendix]], and as the Pharaoh [[Seti I|Sethi]] in [[Cecil B. DeMille]]'s 1956 film ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'' starring [[Charlton Heston]] as [[Moses]].<ref name="imdb">{{IMDb name|0362567}}</ref>

He appeared in a [[Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 2|1956]] episode of ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' titled ''Wet Saturday'' in which he portrayed Mr. Princey, an aristocratic gentleman who tries to cover up a murder to avoid public scandal. On 6 March 1958, he guest-starred on the TV series ''[[The Ford Show]]'' starring [[Tennessee Ernie Ford]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/the-tennessee-ernie-ford-show/march.../summary.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204193022/http://www.tv.com/the-tennessee-ernie-ford-show/march.../summary.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 February 2013|title=''The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show''|publisher=tv.com|access-date=25 November 2010}}</ref>

In 1961, he co-starred with [[Gertrude Berg]] in the [[Four Star Television]] [[situation comedy]], ''[[Mrs. G. Goes to College]]'' (retitled ''[[The Gertrude Berg Show]]'' at mid-season). The series was cancelled after one season.