Drama TV Movie
British television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jenny Agutter and Arthur Lowe. Hopkins performance as Dickens saw him nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1971.
Directed by
Ned Sherrin
Anthony Hopkins
Charles Dickens
Jenny Agutter
Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan
Freddie Jones
William Shaw
Gladys Cooper
Mrs. Ternan
Stanley Holloway
Mr. Vuffin
Arthur Lowe
John Dickens
Joan Greenwood
Maria Beadnell
Gordon Jackson
The Narrator (voice)
Dandy Nichols
Mrs. Gamp
Michael Wilding
Dolby
Mona Washbourne
Mrs. Jarley
Patrick Cargill
Macready
Vivian Pickles
Mrs. Dickens
Rhoda Lewis
Georgina Hogarth
Jeffry Wickham
Lammert/Whitmore/John Black
Gordon Rollings
Codlin/Mould/Ramsay
Sybil Thorndike
Elizabeth Ball Dickens
Dorothy Reynolds
Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland
Nora Nicholson
Rosa Emma Drummond
Ken Wynne
Mr. Ellis
Jocelyn Britton
Kate Dickens (as Jocelyn Birdsall)
Gregory Phillips
Smike
Roland Pickering
Charles Dickens (as a child)

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