British filmmaker Robin Hardy, best known as director of the 1973 horror classic The Wicker Man, passed away on Friday, aged 86.
Born in Surrey, England in 1929, Hardy began his career as a director with the National Film Board of Canada before making his feature debut with The Wicker Man, which starred Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward and has went on to become one of the most celebrated British films of all time.
Following The Wicker Man, Hardy made just two more features: the 1986 thriller The Fantasist, and 2011’s Wicker Man companion piece The Wicker Tree, and for the past couple of years he had also been trying to get another follow-up, Wrath of the Gods, off the ground. Sadly that will now never see the light of day.
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Originally published July 2, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
