The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

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