The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
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.
1970-07-02
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Cast
Anthony Hopkins as Charles Dickens
Sybil Thorndike as Elizabeth Ball Dickens
Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Ternan
Joan Greenwood as Maria Beadnell
Stanley Holloway as Mr. Vuffin
Michael Wilding as Dolby
Mona Washbourne as Mrs. Jarley
Gordon Jackson as The Narrator (voice)
Arthur Lowe as John Dickens
Vivian Pickles as Mrs. Dickens
Nora Nicholson as Rosa Emma Drummond
Dandy Nichols as Mrs. Gamp
Freddie Jones as William Shaw
Patrick Cargill as Macready
Jenny Agutter as Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan
Dorothy Reynolds as Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland
Gordon Rollings as Codlin/Mould/Ramsay
Jeffry Wickham as Lammert/Whitmore/John Black
Rhoda Lewis as Georgina Hogarth