Rod Hardy

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| birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Rod Hardy (born 1949) is an Australian film and television director.{{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Jerry |title=Encyclopedia of television film directors |date=2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham, Md |isbn=9780810863781 |pages=231-232 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC}}

Career

His interest in film began before the age of 12, when he shot several short films on his brother's 8 mm film camera. Hardy has over 350 hours of credits directing television drama in his native Australia.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

Hardy directed the 1979 horror feature film Thirst starring Chantal Contouri,{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-b-grade-vampir/162141142/|title=B-grade vampire cult quenched|last=Lapsley|first=John|date=4 November 1979|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=3 January 2025|via=Newspapers.com}}{{free access}} which won Best Picture in its category at the 1980 Asia Pacific Film Festival.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

Having worked as a producer and director on the TV series, E Street from 1989 to 1991, Hardy moved to Los Angeles in 1992. His first project as director was Lies and Lullabies a story of drug addicts, starring Susan Dey and Piper Laurie. He directed Buffalo Girls (1995), which received two Golden Globe, one Screen Actors Guild and 11 Emmy award nominations.

Hardy has worked on shows such as The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica and Leverage.