The Diary of Anne Frank (1987 BBC TV serial)
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The Diary of Anne Frank is 1987 BBC
televised miniseries. It was based on The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
, and it starred Elizabeth Bell, Janet Amsbury, Katharine Schlesinger
and Emrys James
.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
televised miniseries. It was based on The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944 and Anne Frank ultimately died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen...
by Anne Frank
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...
, and it starred Elizabeth Bell, Janet Amsbury, Katharine Schlesinger
Katharine Schlesinger
Katharine Schlesinger, is a British actress niece of the film director John Schlesinger and great-niece of Dame Peggy Ashcroft. She starred as Catherine in the 1986 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.-Theatre:...
and Emrys James
Emrys James
Emrys James , was a Welsh Shakespearean actor. He also performed in many theatre and TV parts between 1960 and 1989, and was an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
.
Cast
- Katharine SchlesingerKatharine SchlesingerKatharine Schlesinger, is a British actress niece of the film director John Schlesinger and great-niece of Dame Peggy Ashcroft. She starred as Catherine in the 1986 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.-Theatre:...
as Anne FrankAnne FrankAnnelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt... - Emrys JamesEmrys JamesEmrys James , was a Welsh Shakespearean actor. He also performed in many theatre and TV parts between 1960 and 1989, and was an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
as Otto FrankOtto FrankOtto Heinrich "Pim" Frank was a German-born businessman and the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank... - Elizabeth Bell as Edith Frank
- Emma Harbour as Margot FrankMargot FrankMargot Betti Frank was the older sister of Anne Frank, whose deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding, and who subsequently perished in Bergen-Belsen...
- Christopher Benjamin as Mr van Daan
- Stephen Mackintosh as Peter van Daan
- Susan TracySusan TracySusan M. Tracy is an American political consultant and politician who represented the 19th Suffolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995. She was a candidate in the 1998 Massachusetts 8th congressional district race. She finished eight out of ten candidates in...
as Petronella van Daan - David SwiftDavid SwiftDavid Swift is a British actor.He was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, and educated at Clifton College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied law. He then embarked on a career as a businessman with his father-in-law, J.P Jacobs, whose company supplied all the elastic to Marks &...
as Albert Dussel - Janet Amsbury as Miep GiesMiep GiesMiep Gies was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family and several family friends in an attic annex above Anne's father's place of business from the Nazis during World War II...
- Nigel AnthonyNigel AnthonyNigel Anthony, is a British theatre and television actor, who has also worked notably in radio with many broadcasts to his credit He is married to the actress Kate Binchy and is also an accomplished drummer with a wide knowledge of jazz.His theatre work includes The Taming of the Shrew, Happy...
as Mr Kraler