Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Release: 1978-11-06
·Runtime: 350m
·★ 10.0
TV Movie
Drama
Romance
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Thames Television
Cast
T.R. Bowen
as Duff Cooper
Patrick Troughton
as Clement Attlee
Gerald Sim
as Theodore Goddard
Jeremy Child
as Piers Leigh
Cynthia Harris
as Wallis Warfield Simpson
Jessie Matthews
as Aunt Bessie Merryman
Gary Waldhorn
as Chips Channon
Wensley Pithey
as Winston Churchill
William Hoyland
as Lord Perry Brownlow
John Shrapnel
as Maj. Alexander Hardinge
Patricia Hodge
as Lady Diana Cooper
Maurice Denham
as Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury
Simon Cadell
as Maj. John Aird
Hugh Fraser
as Anthony Eden
Kika Markham
as Freda Dudley Ward
Andrew Ray
as Duke of York
Elsie Randolph
as Lady Colefax
Edward Jewesbury
as Lord Dawson
Bessie Love
as Lady Cunard
Nigel Hawthorne
as Walter Monkton
Marius Goring
as King George V
Robert Flemyng
as Sir Donald Somervell
Ed Devereaux
as Lord Beaverbrook
Edward Fox
as King Edward VIII
Peggy Ashcroft
as Queen Mary
Charles Keating
as Ernest Simpson
Geoffrey Lumsden
as Geoffrey Dawson
Cherie Lunghi
as Lady Thelma Furness
