Career
Hardy trained as an actor in Britain, and worked for the Royal National Theatre among other British theatre companies. He returned to his home of New Zealand in a touring production of The Comedy of Errors with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and remained to help expand the country"s theatre industry. He later emigrated to Australia.
Hardy was part of the cast in the first public performance of Kenneth G. Ross"s important Australian play Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts, presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Athenaeum Theatre, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on Thursday, 2 February 1978.
Hardy died, aged 71, at his home in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales on 30 July 2012.