Robin Hardy

Robin St. Clair Rimington Hardy (2 October 1929 – 1 July 2016) was an English author and film director. His most famous directorial work is The Wicker Man, and his last project was a film adaptation of his novel Cowboys for Christ, which was retitled The Wicker Tree (2011). In addition to Cowboys for Christ, Hardy published a novelization of The Wicker Man, as well as the novel The Education of Don Juan.

Hardy had expressed interest in producing a finale to his loose Wicker Man trilogy titled The Wrath of the Gods. In 2015, a crowdfunding campaign was set up to raise funds for the film's production, but ultimately fell short of its US$210,000 target.

The Wicker Man has a cult status among horror fans, and inspired a 2006 remake starring Nicolas Cage.

Death Hardy died on 1 July 2016; he was survived by his fifth wife, Victoria Webster (married 2000), and seven children. His son, Justin Hardy, who followed him into filmmaking, died of a heart attack on July 31, 2026, having just finished work on a sequel, titled Wrath of the Gods , to his father's most famous film.

Filmography

Novels The Wicker Man (1978) (with Anthony Shaffer) Don Juan, 1921–1946 (1979) The Education of Don Juan (1980) Don Juan's New World: America 1945 (1985) Call of the Wendigo (1993) The Killer's Club (1994) Cowboys for Christ (2006) (aka The Wicker Tree) Peace Breaks Out (2017) (with Donough O'Brien)