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Robert Neil Hardwick (born 22 July 1948 in Teversal, Sutton-in-Ashfield, England) is a British-born Finnish theatre and TV director and writer. He was raised in Teversal, near Nottingham. His father was a teacher, and Neil Hardwick has described himself as "a second generation non-miner".




Biography


At age 11, Hardwick was admitted to boarding school with a scholarship. Already in his school years, Neil wrote, directed and often starred in many of his own plays. At age 18, he was drafted to work in the UK nuclear energy commission. Additional studies at King's College, Cambridge, led to a change in profession. There he found philosophy and the world of theatre at a new level.
After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Hardwick moved to Finland in 1969. He started his career as the voice of the English language school tapes of Finnish primary and high schools in the middle 1970s, and to the children of the 1960s and 1970s he became famous as the policeman of the children's language program Hello Hello Hello (1975). Hardwick's reputation as a Finnish director and keen-eyed depictor of the Finnish lifestyle stems from the YLE TV2 comedy series Tankki täyteen and Reinikainen. In Reinikainen, the protagonist is an elderly single policeman from the countryside, who is transferred to a city, where his verbal skill, cunning and nonchalant attitude often defuses dramatic situations and saves the day. His most artistically ambitious work is the TV series Pakanamaan kartta, dealing with total short term memory loss and ecoterrorism.
Hardwick has directed several revues and humour shorts, but is at his best as a depictor of the pathetically humorous daily life of the small man. He has also patiently acted as a bridge builder between the Finnish and English cultures, brought plays to Finland, and explained the Finnish lifestyle in British TV programs. He has repeatedly voiced his exasperation with the nanny state mentality of Finnish TV, but has also said that Finland is the only country where he "is someone". Hardwick is one of the few well-known immigrants to Finland who have learned the Finnish language fluently. His liberal views on immigration brought him into the negative attention of the late Helsingin Sanomat caricaturist Kari Suomalainen, whose nativist and anti-immigration views were at odds with Hardwick.
During 1995 Hardwick served as Professor of Cinematic Arts in the Academy of Fine Arts.
The voice of his son, Sam Hardwick, can be heard in a number of Nightwish songs.




TV series and programs



Hello hello hello 1975 (children's English language course; writer and actor)
Kielipuoli potilas 1978 (comedy series; writer and director)
Tankki täyteen 1978–1980 (comedy series; writer and director)
Parempi myöhään 1979–1980 (entertainment series; sketch writer)
Ollaan kuin kotonanne 1981–1982 (entertainment series; sketch writer)
Reinikainen 1982–1983 (comedy series; writer and director, a role in the last episode)
Saippuakauppias 1984 (palindromic comedy, writer and director)
Sisko ja sen veli 1986 (dark comedy series; writer and director)
Musta tuntuu 1985 (crime series; writer and director)
Niilin lähteillä 1987 (autobiographical series; writer)
Kieli poskessa 1987 (a documentary road movie shot in England, searching for the perfect pint and the meaning of life)
Hardwick 1988–1989 (live talk show)
Nyhjää tyhjästä 1991 (improvisation show from Ryhmäteatteri; host and director)
Pakanamaan kartta 1991 (drama series; writer and director)
Paluu Timbuktuun (travel series; host)
Napaseutu 1994 (comedy series; co-writer with Raila Leppäkoski and director)
Huomenta, Ilona, hyvästi 1996 (director)
Hyvät, pahat ja rumat 1997 (live talkshow; co-host with Pauli Aalto-Setälä)
Verisiskot 1997 (comedy series;director)
Troubleshooter 2001 (comedy series with magic; director)
Muisti palaa pohjaan 2004 (Finnish food memories; host)
"Alright?Alright!" 2005 (English teaching comedy series; writer and director)




Theatre directions



Noises Off (Finnish), Tampereen teatteri 1983
Waiting for Godot (Finnish) Tampereen teatteri 1984
What the Butler Saw (Finnish), Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 1985
Noises Off (Finnish), Suomen Teatterikorkeakoulu 1986
Rumors (Swedish) Lilla teatern 1991
Nyhjää tyhjästä(Finnish impro) Ryhmäteatteri 1991
Rumors (Finnish) Lilla teatern 1992
Other People's Money (Swedish and Finnish) Lilla teatern 1992
Me And My Girl (musical, Swedish) Svenska teatern 1996
Out of Order (Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2000
Out of Order (Finnish) Tampereen työväenteatteri 2000
Stepping Out (Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri, 2000
The Merry Wives of Windsor (opera, Finnish) Seinäjoen kaupunginteatteri 2000
Copenhagen (Finnish), Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2001
Noises Off (Finnish), Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2002
Noises Off(Finnish) Tampereen työväenteatteri 2003
Fantasticks (musical, Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri, 2003
Mulle kaikki heti (revue, Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2004
Quartet (Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2004
Pohjanmaan kautta (opera, Finnish) Ilmajoen musiikkijuhlat 2004
Perfect Days (Finnish) Tampereen työväenteatteri 2005
Hitchcock Blonde (Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2005
Leading ladies (Finnish), Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2005
The Sheep Eaters (Finnish) Pyynikin kesäteatteri 2006
Glorious! (Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2006
The Importance of Being Earnest (Swedish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri/Lilla teatern 2007
The Producers (musical, Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2007
The Importance of Being Earnest (Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri/Lilla teatern 2007
Rumors (Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2008
Spring Awakening (musical, Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2009
Magic! (magic show) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri/Lilla teatern 2009
Arsenic and Old Lace, Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2010
Molière: The Miser (Swedish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri/Lilla Teatern 2011
La Cage aux Folles (musical, Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri/Arena-näyttämö 2011
Striking 12 (musical, Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2011
One Man, Two Guvnors (Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2012
Hotel Paradiso (Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2013
The Ladykillers (Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2014
Two into One (Finnish) Helsingin kaupunginteatteri 2015




Film


Jos rakastat (Finnish musical, 2010)




Bibliography


Hardwick's sauce eli Neilin tähteet: pakinoita. Tammi, 1988 (causerie, in Finnish and English on each opposite page)
Paluu Timbuktuun: mitä todella tapahtui. Otava, 1996
Hullun lailla. Otava, 1999




References



Teatteriin 3/2006, page 7




External links


Neil Hardwick at IMDb

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