The Duke
A priceless true story.
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.
Director Roger Michell
Trailer
Cast
Claire Lams
BBC Receptionist
Ashley Kumar
Javid Akram
Fionn Whitehead
Jackie Bunton
Charlotte Spencer
Pammy
Craig Conway
Mr. Walker
Michael Mather
Eddie
Neal Barry
Gallery Security Guard
Joshua McGuire
Eric Crowther
Jim Broadbent
Kempton Bunton
John Heffernan
Neddie Cussen
Charlie Richmond
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Andrew Havill
Sir Philip Hendy
Philip Gascoyne
Press Photographer (uncredited)
Charles Edwards
Sir Joseph Simpson
Helen Mirren
Dorothy Bunton
Heather Craney
Debbie
Michael Hodgson
Barry Spence
Sarah Beck Mather
Press Woman
Cliff Burnett
Wilf
Sammy T. Dobson
Bakery Assistant
James Wilby
Judge Aarvold
Richard McCabe
Rab Butler
Dorian Lough
DI Macpherson
Darren Charman
Duke of Wellington
Matthew Goode
Jeremy Hutchinson
Aimee Kelly
Irene Boslover
Matthew Steer
Passing BBC Manager
Sian Clifford
Dr. Unsworth
Sam Swainsbury
DI Brompton
Simon Hubbard
PC Myton
Anna Maxwell Martin
Mrs. Gowling
Jack Bandeira
Kenny Bunton
Val McLane
Freda
Austin Haynes
Scruffy Little Boy
Michael Gould
Express Editor
Stephen Rashbrook
Foreman