Cast (partial)

• Anthony Ainley
  Anthony Ainley
  Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for his work on British television and particularly for his role as the third Master in Doctor Who. He was the fourth actor to play the role of the Master, and the first actor to portray the Master as a recurring role after the death of Roger Delgado...
  
  : Rev. Emilius
• Terence Alexander
  Terence Alexander
  Terence Joseph Alexander was an English film and television actor, best known for his role as Charlie Hungerford in the British TV drama Bergerac.-Early life and career:...
  
  : Lord George
• Anthony Andrews
  Anthony Andrews
  -Life and career:Andrews was born in London, the son of Geraldine Agnes , a dancer, and Stanley Thomas Andrews, a musical arranger and musical conductor. He grew up in the North Finchley district of London...
  
  : Lord Silverbridge
• Sarah Badel
  Sarah Badel
  Sarah Badel is a British stage and film actress. She is the daughter of actors Alan Badel and Yvonne Owen.-Theatrical career:...
  
  : Lizzie Eustace
• Robin Bailey
  Robin Bailey
  Robin Bailey was an English actor. He was born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.Although often chosen for upper class and tradition-bound roles such as Judge Graves in Thames Television's Rumpole Of The Bailey, Bailey is perhaps most fondly remembered for his portrayal of Uncle Mort in I Didn't Know...
  
  : Prime Minister Gresham
• George Ballantyne: Smithers
• Kenneth Benda: Major Domo
• James Berwick: Mr Grimes
• Sidney Bromley: Mr Clarkson
• Bernard Brown: John Grey
• Edward Burnham: Mr Turnbull
• Antony Carrick: Superintendent Worth
• Anna Carteret
  Anna Carteret
  Anna Carteret is a British stage and screen actress, born in Bangalore, India the daughter of Peter John Wilkinson and his wife Patricia Carteret . She is married to the television and film director Christopher Morahan and has often worked with him...
  
  : Lady Mabel Grex
• Dallas Cavell: Captain Colepepper
• Helen Christie
  Helen Christie
  Helen Christie was an Indian-born British film and television actress. She was married to Patrick Crean.-Selected filmography:Film* Up for the Cup * Wide Boy * Castle in the Air * The Beggar's Opera...
  
  : Lady Monk
• Jeremy Clyde
  Jeremy Clyde
  Michael Thomas Jeremy Clyde is an English actor and musician. The son of Lady Elizabeth Wellesley, he made his first public appearance as a pageboy at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in 1953...
  
  : Gerard Maule
• Michael Cochrane
  Michael Cochrane
  Michael Cochrane is an English actor who specialises in playing upper class characters, sometimes with a suaveness that hides their villainy....
  
  : Lord Gerald Palliser
• James Cossins
  James Cossins
  James Cossins was an English character actor. Born in Beckenham, Kent, he became widely recognised as the abrupt, bewildered Mr. Walt in the Fawlty Towers episode "The Hotel Inspectors"...
  
  : Sergeant Bunfit
• Brenda Cowling
  Brenda Cowling
  Brenda Rose Cowling was an English actress. A native of London, Cowling wanted to be a film actress from the time she was a child; however, upon leaving school, she trained instead as a shorthand typist.After a time she joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she was a member of the same...
  
  : Mrs Bunce
• Roland Culver
  Roland Culver
  Roland Culver OBE was a British stage, film, and television actor.-Life and career:...
  
  : Duke of Omnium and Gatherum
• Iain Cuthbertson
  Iain Cuthbertson
  Iain Cuthbertson was a Scottish character actor. At 6' 4", he was known for his tall imposing build and also his distinctive "gravelly" heavily accented voice.-Early life:...
  
  : Major Mackintosh
• Veronica Doran
  Veronica Doran
  Veronica Doran is a British character actress who remains best known for her 18 month stint as Marion Willis in the ITV1 soap opera, Coronation Street. She appeared in the series from 1982 to 1983.- Early life :...
  
  : Bonteen's maid
• Fabia Drake
  Fabia Drake
  Fabia Drake OBE was an English actress whose professional career spanned almost 73 years during the 20th century.Drake was born in Herne Bay, Kent...
  
  : Countess of Midlothian
• Sonia Dresdel
  Sonia Dresdel
  Sonia Dresdel was an English actress, whose career ran between the 1940s and 1970s.She was born Lois Obee in Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, England and was educated at Aberdeen High School for Girls....
  
  : Countess of Auld Reekie
• Donald Eccles
  Donald Eccles
  Donald Eccles was a British character actor.Born in Nafferton, East Yorkshire, he made his stage debut in New York City in 1930, and later became known as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
  
  : Squire Vavasor
• Eileen Erskine: Mrs Boncassen
• Lynne Frederick
  Lynne Frederick
  Lynne Maria Frederick was an English film actress. In a career spanning ten years she made about thirty films or television drama appearances, but she is best remembered as the last wife of Peter Sellers. She was married twice after his death.-Early life:Frederick was born in Hillingdon,...
  
  : Isabel Boncassen
• Derek Godfrey
  Derek Godfrey
  Derek Godfrey was a British actor who appeared in several films and BBC television dramatizations during the 1960s and 1970s....
  
  : Robert Kennedy
• Gordon Gostelow
  Gordon Gostelow
  Gordon Gostelow was a New Zealand actor. He was educated in Australia at North Sydney Boys High School and Sydney University where he graduated in Economics....
  
  : Mr Scruby
• John Hallam
  John Hallam
  John William Francis Hallam was a Northern Irish character actor.- Career :He appeared in many film and television roles including Nicholas and Alexandra , Murphy's War , The Pallisers , The Mallens , Flash Gordon , Dragonslayer , the BBC television adaptations of Prince Caspian...
  
  : Lord Chiltern
• Susan Hampshire
  Susan Hampshire
  Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, OBE is an English actress, best-known for her many television and film roles.-Early life:Susan Hampshire was born in Kensington, London, the youngest of four children. She had two sisters and one brother...
  
  : Lady Glencora Palliser
• Edward Hardwicke
  Edward Hardwicke
  Edward Hardwicke , sometimes credited as Edward Hardwick, was an English actor.-Early life and career:...
  
  : Prince of Wales
• Rachel Herbert: Lady Dumbello
• Jeremy Irons
  Jeremy Irons
  Jeremy John Irons is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and has since appeared in many London theatre productions including The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the...
  
  : Frank Tregear
• Derek Jacobi
  Derek Jacobi
  Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE is an English actor and film director.A "forceful, commanding stage presence", Jacobi has enjoyed a highly successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, and Oedipus the King. He received a Tony Award for his performance in...
  
  : Lord Fawn
• Martyn Jacobs: Fencing instructor
• Martin Jarvis: Frank Greystock
• Haydn Jones: Mr Bunce
• John Glyn Jones: John Vavasor
• Alan Judd
  Alan Judd
  Alan Judd aka Alan Petty is a former soldier and diplomat who now works as a security analyst and writer in the United Kingdom. He writes both books and articles, regularly contributing to a number of publications, including The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator...
  
  : Archbishop
• Barry Justice: Burgo Fitzgerald
• Penelope Keith
  Penelope Keith
  Penelope Anne Constance Keith, CBE, DL is an English actress.Having started her television career in the 1950s, Penelope Keith became a household name in the United Kingdom in the 1970s when she played Margo Leadbetter in the sitcom The Good Life...
  
  : Mrs Hillaway
• Jo Kendall
  Jo Kendall
  Jo Kendall is a British actress.She played Desdemona in a production of Othello at the A.D.C. Theatre, Cambridge in 1962.In August 1963 she appeared in the West End in London, New Zealand and Broadway, in the Cambridge University revue Cambridge Circus directed by Humphrey Barclay, alongside Graham...
  
  : Adelaide Palliser
• Godfrey Kenton: Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Josie Kidd: Miss Cassewary
• Rosalind Knight
  Rosalind Knight
  Rosalind Knight is an English actress. She was the daughter of actor Esmond Knight and his first wife, Frances Clare and the stepdaughter of actress Nora Swinburne....
  
  : Aspasia Fitzgibbon
• Philip Latham
  Philip Latham
  Philip Latham is a British actor. He was educated at Felsted School.In the late 1960s/early 1970s he was well known to British TV viewers for his portrayal of chief accountant Willy Izard, the "conscience" to hard-nosed oil company industrialist Brian Stead in the BBC series The Troubleshooters...
  
  : Plantagenet Palliser
• Helen Lindsay: Mrs Carbuncle
• Roger Livesey
  Roger Livesey
  Roger Livesey was a British stage and film actor. He is most often remembered for the three Powell & Pressburger films in which he starred: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going! and A Matter of Life and Death...
  
  : Duke of St.Bungay
• Mel Martin
  Mel Martin
  Mel Martin is an English actor. She has appeared in such British television programmes and films as The Pallisers, Love for Lydia, Bergerac, Cover Her Face, Lovejoy, Inspector Morse, Cadfael, When the Boat Comes In, Midsomer Murders and "A Touch of Frost".She starred as Fiona Samson, the double...
  
  : Violet Effingham
• Caroline Mortimer
  Caroline Mortimer
  Caroline Mortimer is a British actress.Caroline Mortimer was the daughter of the novelist Penelope Mortimer from her first marriage to the journalist Charles Dimont and the stepdaughter of the playwright Sir John Mortimer...
  
  : Alice Vavasor
• Donal McCann
  Donal McCann
  Donal McCann was an Irish stage, film, and television actor best known for his roles in the works of Brian Friel and for his lead role in John Huston's last film, The Dead.-Early life:...
  
  : Phineas Finn
• Karin MacCarthy: Kate Vavasor
• Elspeth Macnaughton: Mrs MacPherson
• Anna Massey
  Anna Massey
  Anna Raymond Massey, CBE was an English actress. She won a BAFTA Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner’s novel Hotel du Lac.-Early life:...
  
  : Lady Laura Kennedy
• Barbara Murray
  Barbara Murray
  Barbara Ann Murray is an English actress. She was married to the actor John Justin and had three daughters, but they divorced in 1964....
  
  : Marie Goesler, usually known as Madame Max Goesler; then married as Marie Finn
• Caroline Mortimer
  Caroline Mortimer
  Caroline Mortimer is a British actress.Caroline Mortimer was the daughter of the novelist Penelope Mortimer from her first marriage to the journalist Charles Dimont and the stepdaughter of the playwright Sir John Mortimer...
  
  : Alice Vavasor
• John Nettleton
  John Nettleton (actor)
  John Nettleton is an English actor.One of his most notable roles was that of Sir Arnold Robinson, the Cabinet Secretary in Yes Minister and President of the Campaign for Freedom of Information in the follow-up Yes, Prime Minister...
  
  : Mr Fothergill
• Kate Nicholls: Lady Mary Palliser
• Donald Pickering
  Donald Pickering
  Donald Ellis Pickering was an English actor.Pickering had appeared in many television, film and radio roles...
  
  : Dolly Longstaffe
• Ellen Pollock
  Ellen Pollock
  Ellen Pollack was a British character actress, mainly appeared on stage in London's West End. She also appeared in several films.Pollack was born in Heidelberg, Germany and died in London, England.-Selected filmography:...
  
  : Lady Baldock
• Bryan Pringle
  Bryan Pringle
  Bryan Pringle was a British actor who appeared in television, film and theatre productions.Born in Tamworth, Staffordshire but raised in the Lancashire town of Bolton he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In 1958, he married character actress Anne Jameson; together they had...
  
  : Mr Monk
• Maurice Quick: Collingwood
• Edwin Richfield
  Edwin Richfield
  Edwin Richfield was an English actor.His film credits include: X the Unknown, Quatermass 2, The Camp on Blood Island, The Face of Fu Manchu and Quatermass and the Pit....
  
  : Police Sergeant
• John Richmond: Bishop
• John Ringham
  John Ringham
  John Henry Ringham was a British character actor of both television and stage who appeared in over a hundred screen appearances in a wide variety of roles....
  
  : Major Tifto
• Doris Rogers: Lady Hartletop
• Clifford Rose
  Clifford Rose
  Clifford Rose is a British classical actor.He was born in Herefordshire. He was educated at the King's School, Worcester and King's College London, before appearing in rep and with the Royal Shakespeare Company....
  
  : Quintus Slide
• Sheila Ruskin
  Sheila Ruskin
  Sheila Ruskin is an English actress.She is possibly best known for playing Vipsania in the 1976 BBC adaptation of I, Claudius but is also remembered by fans of Doctor Who for her performance as Kassia in the 1981 serial The Keeper of Traken, and by Blake's 7 fans as Alta 1 in the 1979 episode...
  
  : Emily Wharton
• Peter Sallis
  Peter Sallis
  Peter Sallis, OBE is an English actor and entertainer, well-known for his work on British television. Although he was born and brought up in London, his two most notable roles require him to adopt the accents and mannerisms of a Northerner.Sallis is best known for his role as the main character...
  
  : Mr Bonteen
• Edith Savile: Lady Hartletop
• Roderick Shaw: Young Lord Silverbridge
• Barnaby Shaw: Young Lord Gerald Palliser
• Norman Shelley
  Norman Shelley
  Norman Shelley was an English actor, best known for his work in radio, in particular for the BBC's Children's Hour. He also had a recurring role as Colonel Danby in the long-running radio soap opera The Archers....
  
  : Prime Minister Mildmay
• Lynn Smith: Alice Vavasor's maid
• Neil Stacy: Lawrence Fitzgibbon
• Jerry Stovin: Mr Boncassen
• John Stratton: Mr Bott
• Stacey Tendeter
  Stacey Tendeter
  Stacey Tendeter was a British actress best known for her performance as Muriel in the 1971 film Two English Girls...
  
  : Girl in Street
• Gary Watson
  Gary Watson
  Gary Watson is a retired British television actor who started out as a stage actor most notably acting in Friedrich Hebbel's 1962 play Judith at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, England with Sean Connery...
  
  : George Vavasor
• Moray Watson
  Moray Watson
  Moray Watson is an English actor.Watson's father was killed in Belgium in World War II. He was educated at Eton College and made his first appearance on stage whilst still a student at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art at a matinee performance in memory of Ellen Terry at Hythe, Kent...
  
  : Barrington Erle
• Lockwood West
  Lockwood West
  Lockwood West was a British actor. He is the father of actor Timothy West and the grandfather of actor Samuel West....
  
  : Lord Brentford
• June Whitfield
  June Whitfield
  June Rosemary Whitfield, CBE is an English actress, well known in the United Kingdom since the 1950s for roles in radio and television comedy series....
  
  : Mrs Bonteen
• Stuart Wilson: Ferdinand Lopez

Crew

• Director: Hugh David
  Hugh David
  Hugh David was an actor turned television director. David was born in Aberystwyth, Wales. His directorial credits include Compact, Z-Cars, The Pallisers and Doctor Who, for which he directed two stories in the Patrick Troughton era...
  
   and Ronald Wilson
• Adaptation: Simon Raven
  Simon Raven
  Simon Arthur Noël Raven was an English novelist, essayist, dramatist and raconteur who, in a writing career of forty years, caused controversy, amusement and offence...
  
  
• Script Editor: Lennox Phillips
• Designer: Raymond Cusick
  Raymond Cusick
  Raymond P. "Ray" Cusick was a designer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He is best known for designing the Daleks, a race of mutants who move around in tank-like travel machines, for the science fiction television series Doctor Who....
  
  

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