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Cast
20 credits
Charles Gray
Adrian Blenderbland, Antonio, Charles Strickland, Field-Marshall Allenby, Gayev, Lord Augustus, Mr. Beebe, Richard Greatham, Sir Harcourt Courtly
9 episodes
Eric Porter
Arthur Winslow, Councillor Albert Parker, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jack Tanner, Macbeth, Maj. Pollock / John Malcolm
6 episodes
Donald Pickering
George Farrant, Hotel Manager, Monty Cave, Préfet de Police, Ronald Utterword, Soliony
6 episodes
Jeremy Brett
Basil Hallward, Captain Jack Absolute, George, Duke of Bristol, Joseph Surface, Lord Berowne, Vicount Goring
6 episodes
John Gielgud
Capt. Shotover, Charles II, Chorus, Lord Burleigh, Lord Henry 'Harry' Wotton, The Inquisitor
6 episodes
Lally Bowers
Lavinia Penniman, Miss Lavish, Miss Prism, Mrs. Higgins, Mrs. Telfer, The Dowager Empress
6 episodes
Stephanie Bidmead
Aunt, Lady Capulet, Maudie, Miss Ronberry, Mrs. Sorby
5 episodes
Michael Hordern
God, Lear, Mr. Posket, Tartuffe, The Devil
5 episodes
Celia Johnson
Eloise, Judith Bliss, Madame Ranyevskaya, Mrs. Alving, Sheila
5 episodes
Derek Godfrey
Gregers Werle, Lord Darlington, Orestes' Tutor, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Sir Isaac Newton
5 episodes
Robert Stephens
Grigory Rasputin, Mark Antony, Oberon, Prince of Wales, Trigorin
5 episodes
Alan Badel
Father, General Charles 'Chinese' Gordon, Sir Fretful Plagiary, Sir Robert Morton, Svengali
5 episodes
Helen Mirren
Babbie, Beatrice-Joanna, Margery Pinchwife, Orinthia
4 episodes
Anthony Hopkins
Alfred Allmers, Andrey, Astrov, Edmund Kean
4 episodes
Geoffrey Bayldon
Archbishop of Rheims, Cajetan, Dyadin, Sergei Voinitsev
4 episodes
Ronald Hines
Dirk Stroeve, Lord Windermere, Ronny Heaslop, Toozenbach
4 episodes
Edward Fox
Captain Dancy, DSO, Charles Surface, Flt. Lieutenant Stoker, Lysander
4 episodes
Jerome Willis
Le Bret, The Sea Captain, Zaryezov
3 episodes
Virginia McKenna
Adela Quested, Fraulein von Bernburg, Hester, Mary Stuart
4 episodes
Ian McKellen
Captain Plume, George Tesman, Ross / T.E. Lawrence, Simon Bliss
4 episodes
Crew
17 credits
Basil Coleman
Director
Cedric Messina
Director
Donald McWhinnie
Director
John Gorrie
Director
Rudolph Cartier
Director
James MacTaggart
Creator
Arthur Wing Pinero
Writer
George Bernard Shaw
Writer
Hugh Whitemore
Writer
J. B. Priestley
Writer
John Galsworthy
Writer
Alan Shallcross
Producer
Cedric Messina
Producer
David E. Jones
Producer
Gerald Savory
Producer
Louis Marks
Producer
Barry Learoyd
Production Design