Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man

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Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man

1978

0h 54m

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Drama

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Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poems of love and remorse that he wrote after the death of his first wife, Emma.

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8 members

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Caroline Blakiston

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Billie Whitelaw

Emma Hardy

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Cyril Luckham

Old Hardy

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Ian Lindsay

Young Hardy

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Elizabeth Proud

Florence Hardy

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Petronella Barker

Mrs Holder

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Anne Tirard

Mrs Hardy

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Claire Oerton

Dolly Gale

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