Jonathan Hardy has died. [Voice of Rygel on Farscape]

[Crazedwraith]

[quote="the Article I could find"]

New Zealand-born actor, writer and director Jonathan Hardy, who was Oscar-nominated for co-writing Breaker Morant, has died at the age of 71.

He died at his home in the NSW Southern Highlands on Sunday, his friend and fellow Kiwi actor Lani Tupu told AAP from Sydney.

Tupu broke the news of Hardy's death with a message on Facebook.

"Sail well, wherever your spirit takes you. It was a great journey we travelled in space together," Tupu wrote, referring to their work together on the American science fiction TV show Farscape, produced by the Muppet creators at Jim Henson Productions.

Hardy and Tupu met many years earlier when Hardy was director of Auckland's Mercury Theatre and through their Farscape roles they were invited to sci-fi conventions throughout the United States.

"Not many people realise he was nominated for an Oscar as one of the writers of Breaker Morant. At that time (1981) it was just exceptional," Tupu told AAP.

"He's done so much over a long career and I am just stunned (by his death)."

Hardy's film credits include The Devil's Playground, Mad Max and Moulin Rouge (as the Man in the Moon, with singing voice dubbed by Placido Domingo).

Hardy directed and wrote the movie Backstage starring the Grammy-winning Laura Branigan.

On TV he appeared in the Australian series Prisoner, the 1989 revival of Mission: Impossible, and the tele-movie The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years.

He also wrote for The Adventures of Skippy for two years.

In a 2007 interview with the New Zealand Herald, he recalled how he ended up in the New Zealand Players' Drama School after being expelled from school and within four years was appearing on the British stage with the likes of Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier.

He revived the Mercury Theatre during his 1980-85 tenure as artistic director but he had to resign through ill health and had a heart transplant in 1988.

"In my own pathetic way I suppose I feel I have been part of something quite special. New Zealand now expresses itself through its theatre and its films compared to when I started and all we did was work from somewhere else," he told the Herald.
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... RIP

It's been a bad year for sci - fi.

[Zor]

Rest well noble Dominar...


Zor

[Ahriman238]

Rygel, No!

Yeah. RIP.

[Thanas]

[CaptJodan]

RIP Dominar Rygel the XVI.

Rygel: "I'm nobody's puppet."

[Alkaloid]

No one will ever say the words 'you blue arsed bitch' quite the same way again, and that makes me a little sad.

I'm also a little sad I never paid attention to who voiced Rygel, or knew that the man had a career. There is nothing on that list I haven't at least heard good things about. Except the Thorn Birds. No idea what that is.