Neil Hardwick Explained

Neil Hardwick
Birth Date:1948 7, df=yes
Birth Place:Teversal, Sutton-in-Ashfield, England
Occupation:Television presenter

Robert Neil Hardwick (born 22 July 1948 in Teversal, Sutton-in-Ashfield, England)[1] 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.[2]

After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Hardwick moved to Finland in 1969.[3] 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).[3] 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.[4] [5] 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.[6]

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,[6] 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.[7]

TV series and programs

Theatre directions

Film

Jos rakastat (Finnish musical, 2010)

Bibliography

References

Notes and References

  1. News: Särkkä . Tutta . Neil Hardwick: "Minua pelottaa tulla vanhana muista riippuvaiseksi" . 20 August 2020 . ET-lehti . 16 January 2013.
  2. News: Uotinen . Jenni . Neil Hardwick ei suutu itseään tyhmemmille: Olen tavallista älykkäämpi . 20 August 2020 . Iltalehti . 3 October 2019.
  3. News: Rantala . Juho-Pekka . Itse asiassa kuultuna: Neil Hardwick – suomalaisuuden ytimessä . 20 August 2020 . Yle . 25 September 2019.
  4. News: Annala . Jukka . Tv-guru Neil Hardwick, 70, voi paremmin kuin koskaan: "On niin helppoa, kun ei tarvitse tehdä mitään" . 20 August 2020 . Aamulehti . 21 July 2018.
  5. News: Niiranen . Jussi . Neil Hardwick elää keskellä Espanjan koronakaaosta – tällaista siellä on: kauppajonoa vartioidaan ja apteekissa vastassa oli tylyt terveiset . 20 August 2020 . Ilta-Sanomat . 1 April 2020.
  6. News: Saarikoski . Saska . "Televisio on hylännyt laadun" . 20 August 2020 . Suomen Kuvalehti . 12 July 2019.
  7. Book: Ollila, M. . Pohjola . O. . Once Upon a Nightwish: The Official Biography 1996-2006 . Bazillion Points . 2008 . 978-0-9796163-2-7 .
  8. News: Yrttiaho . Tuomo . Neil Hardwick sai vieraakseen Juicen, Irwinin ja Vexin, ja siitä seurasi näsäviisastelua, möläyttelyä ja kiusaantumista . 20 August 2020 . Helsingin Sanomat . 25 November 2019.

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