The Duke
A priceless true story.
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In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happened next became the stuff of legend.
DirectorRoger Michell
Trailer
Cast
Michael Mather
Eddie
Richard McCabe
Rab Butler
Claire Lams
BBC Receptionist
Matthew Steer
Passing BBC Manager
Dorian Lough
DI Macpherson
Simon Hubbard
PC Myton
Neal Barry
Gallery Security Guard
Helen Mirren
Dorothy Bunton
Matthew Goode
Jeremy Hutchinson
Jack Bandeira
Kenny Bunton
Charlotte Spencer
Pammy
Andrew Havill
Sir Philip Hendy
Michael Gould
Express Editor
Sam Swainsbury
DI Brompton
Austin Haynes
Scruffy Little Boy
John Heffernan
Neddie Cussen
Charlie Richmond
PO Official #1
Craig Conway
Mr. Walker
Sammy T. Dobson
Bakery Assistant
Jim Broadbent
Kempton Bunton
Michael Hodgson
Barry Spence
Cliff Burnett
Wilf
Darren Charman
Duke of Wellington
Philip Gascoyne
Press Photographer (uncredited)
James Wilby
Judge Aarvold
Sarah Beck Mather
Press Woman
Ashley Kumar
Javid Akram
Anna Maxwell Martin
Mrs. Gowling
Heather Craney
Debbie
Stephen Rashbrook
Foreman
Sian Clifford
Dr. Unsworth
Joshua McGuire
Eric Crowther
Fionn Whitehead
Jackie Bunton
Aimee Kelly
Irene Boslover
Val McLane
Freda
Charles Edwards
Sir Joseph Simpson