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The Fool
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Cast
Jim Carter
Mr. Blackthorn
Ewen Bremner
Julian Firth
Frederick Treves
Samuel Simpson
Julian Bleach
John Tordoff
Petra Markham
Ian Gelder
Henry Gibbs
Nora Connolly
Stage actress
Jane Wymark
Joanna Brookes
Stage actress
John Warner
Norman Lumsden
Patricia Hayes
The Dowager Duchess
James Cosmo
Mr. Bowring
Brenda Bruce
Howard Goorney
Ian Lindsay
Una Brandon-Jones
Hugh Lloyd
Viscount
Janet Henfrey
Michael Hordern
Mr. Tatham
Don Henderson
Bob
Dilys Hamlett
Lady Emma
Linda Kerr Scott
Corin Redgrave
Sir Thomas Neathouse
Richard Graydon
Marty Cruikshank
Michael Medwin
Mr. Wells
Michael Mears
Cyril Cusack
The Ballad Seller
Derek Jacobi
Mr. Frederick / Sir John
Sally Faulkner
George Savvides
Mr. Nick
Stratford Johns
Arthur Shillibeer
Richard Caldicot
Duke
Michael Andrew
Nicholas Tennant
Curley
Gregory Floy
Merelina Kendall
Alan Ford
Robert Putt
Graham Fletcher-Cook
Whistling Billy
Maria Charles
The Pure Gatherer
David Pugh
Maria Aitken
Lady Amelia
Mark Arnold
Stage actor
Rosalind Adler
Philip McGough
Mr. Croker
Bill Wallis
Henry Beauchamp-Harper
Jessica James
David Sterne
Roger Hammond
Augustus Roddick
Christopher Good
Joan Sims
Lady Daphne
Paul Brooke
Lord Paramount
Michael Feast
Mr. Edwin
Ronnie Brody
Irina Brook
Georgiana Shillibeer
Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Bowring
Sarah Flind
Miranda Richardson
Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia
Mark Lambert
John Tams
Stephen Rashbrook
Murray Melvin
Jeremy Ruttle
David Keyes
Tom
Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Harris
Richard Clifford
George Locket
John McEnery
Mr. Maclean
Ron Cook
Jonathan Cecil
Sir Martin Locket
John Quarmby