John Fardy
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834 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
John Fardy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But then in the kind of late 90s, he tried to work it back a bit.
And then in 97, he reminded people of what a great actor he was in a movie called Copland, where he plays this honest to goodness sheriff in a small New Jersey town who rubs up against Robert De Niro and a load of corrupt New York cops.
He gained weight, like he became fat in essence, as opposed to being muscly and stuff like that and realized he needed to do something.
Can I give you a little flavor of that?
Because he's brilliant in it.
This is Copland.
He's a complicated fellow.
His parents were very strange.
You may remember his mother famously became kind of an astrologer and stuff like that.
But they had a really strange relationship.
And, you know, his parents, they left him and his brother in boarding houses, in essence, for large parts of their childhood.
So he really...
you know, there's a documentary on Netflix, I think it's just called Sly, and he goes into all that and just, you know, it was a stone that was thrown in a pool that reverberated all his life and he struggled with it.
You know, he's been married three times.
That's de rigueur for these Hollywood stars, particularly at that time.
His politics are kind of unusual.
He seems to flirt with Democrats and Republicans from time.
This, one of Trump's many ideas was to make Hollywood great again.
You're
He was brought on as this triumvirate along with, I think it was Mel Gibson, who were going to make Hollywood great again and stop like French movies and Italian movies supposedly and possibly even Irish ones and tax breaks and all that.
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