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name: "Chips Hardy"
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roles: ["Producer"]
born: "23 January 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T20:20:59.345421+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Chips Hardy

Producer. Born 23 January 1950 in London, England.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 23 January 1950, London, England
- **Also known as:** Edward John Hardy, Edward John "Chips" Hardy
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chips_Hardy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28925095, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362609/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1717283

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Taboo*](https://film.one/tv/taboo.md) (62)

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## Biography

Chips Hardy, also known as Edward John "Chips" Hardy, is an English writer, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Born in London in 1950, he worked as a creative director in advertising before focusing on writing across television, theatre, film and prose.

Hardy co-created the BBC One and FX series *Taboo* (2017) with his son, actor Tom Hardy, and Steven Knight. He also wrote episodes and served as consulting producer. The series earned him the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best Long Form TV Drama in 2018. Earlier credits include the children's series *Helping Henry* (1988), work on *Dave Allen* (for which he received a British Comedy Award), and the drama *About Face* (1989).

His other work encompasses novels such as *Each Day A Small Victory* (2007) and plays including *Blue on Blue*. He and Tom Hardy have a production company, Hardy, Son and Baker.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, fxnetworks.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Taboo* (2017), Fi1m 62, Writer, Consulting Producer, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/taboo.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Taboo* (2017), series, Writer, Consulting Producer, Creator — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/tv/taboo.md)
- *Dave Allen Live ...On Life* (1998), Additional Writing

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