Oh! What a Lovely War
Comedy
Music
War
The musical shot in the arm!
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
1969-03-10
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Cast
Director
Richard Attenborough
Laurence Olivier as Field Marshal Sir John French
Vanessa Redgrave as Sylvia Pankhurst
Maggie Smith as Music Hall Star
John Mills as Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Corin Redgrave as Bertie Smith
Maurice Roëves as George Smith
Ian Holm as President Poincare
Juliet Mills as Nurse
Michael Bates as Drunk Lance Corporal
Edward Fox as Aide to Field-Marshal Haig
Dirk Bogarde as Stephen
Jean-Pierre Cassel as French Colonel
John Clements as Gen. von Moltke
John Gielgud as Count Leopold Von Berchtold
Jack Hawkins as Emperor Franz Josef
Kenneth More as Kaiser Wilhelm II
Michael Redgrave as Gen. Sir Henry Wilson
Ralph Richardson as Sir Edward Grey
Susannah York as Eleanor
Robert Flemyng as Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
Paul Daneman as Czar Nicholas II
Guy Middleton as Gen. Sir William Robertson
Angela Thorne as Elizabeth May 'Betty' Smith
Wendy Allnutt as Florence Victoria 'Flo' Smith
Colin Farrell as Harry Arnold Smith
Malcolm McFee as Frederick Percy 'Freddie' Smith
Paul Shelley as Jack Henry Smith
John Owens as Seamus Moore
Vincent Ball as Australian Soldier
Pia Colombo as Estaminet Singer
Isabel Dean as Sir John French's Lady
Christian Doermer as Fritz
Joe Melia as The Photographer
Nanette Newman as Nurse
Cecil Parker as Sir John
Natasha Parry as Sir William Robertson's Lady
Gerald Sim as Chaplain
Thorley Walters as Staff Officer
Anthony Ainley as 3rd Aide
Peter Gilmore as Pte Burgess
Ben Howard as Pte Garbett
Norman Jones as Scottish Soldier
Angus Lennie as Scottish Soldier
Paddy Joyce as Irish Soldier
Harry Locke as Heckler
Ron Pember as Corporal
Marianne Stone as Mill Girl
Christine Noonan as Mill Girl (uncredited)
Derek Newark as Shooting Gallery Proprietor
Clifford Mollison as Heckler
Norman Bird as Training Sgt (uncredited)
Jeremy Child as Wealthy Young Man (uncredited)
Richard Davies as Sergeant in Burial Party (uncredited)
Stanley Lebor as Soldier (uncredited)
Jane Seymour as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Wensley Pithey as Archduke Ferdinand (uncredited)
Meriel Forbes as Lady Pamela Grey
David Lodge as Recruiting Sergeant at Music Hall
Dorothy Reynolds as Heckler at Pankhurst Speech
Phyllis Calvert as Lady Dorothy Haig
John Dunn-Hill as Irish Soldier (uncredited)
Charles Farrell as Policeman (uncredited)
Frank Forsyth as President Woodrow Wilson (uncredited)
Carole Gray as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Paul Hansard as German Officer (uncredited)
John Hussey as Soldier on Balcony (uncredited)
Ruth Kettlewell as Duchess Sophie (uncredited)
Anthony Morton as Italian Military Attaché (uncredited)
Steve Plytas as Turkish Military Attaché (uncredited)
Guy Standeven as American Officer (uncredited)
Pippa Steel as Scoreboard Girl (uncredited)
Tony Vogel as German Soldier (uncredited)
Michael Wolf as German Officer (uncredited)
John Woodnutt as British Officer (uncredited)
Norman Shelley as Staff Officer in Ballroom