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The Fool
The Fool
Release: 1990-12-07
·Runtime: 140m
·★ 7.0
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Sands Films
Film Four International
British Screen
Cast
Christopher Good
Joanna Brookes
as Stage actress
Ian Lindsay
Miriam Margolyes
as Mrs. Bowring
John McEnery
as Mr. Maclean
Patricia Hayes
as The Dowager Duchess
Graham Fletcher-Cook
as Whistling Billy
Linda Kerr Scott
Sally Faulkner
David Sterne
James Cosmo
as Mr. Bowring
Michael Medwin
as Mr. Wells
Rosalie Crutchley
as Mrs. Harris
Philip McGough
as Mr. Croker
Norman Lumsden
Richard Caldicot
as Duke
Robert Putt
Derek Jacobi
as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
Brenda Bruce
Maria Aitken
as Lady Amelia
Roger Hammond
as Augustus Roddick
Stephen Rashbrook
Mark Lambert
David Keyes
as Tom
Una Brandon-Jones
Richard Clifford
as George Locket
Hugh Lloyd
as Viscount
Miranda Richardson
as Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia
John Warner
Murray Melvin
as Jeremy Ruttle
Ronnie Brody
Alan Ford
Paul Brooke
as Lord Paramount
Janet Henfrey
Jim Carter
as Mr. Blackthorn
Michael Feast
as Mr. Edwin
Michael Hordern
as Mr. Tatham
Maria Charles
as The Pure Gatherer
David Pugh
Bill Stewart
Dilys Hamlett
as Lady Emma
Mark Arnold
as Stage actor
John Tordoff
Gregory Floy
Julian Bleach
Ron Cook
Marty Cruikshank
John Quarmby
Michael Andrew
Darlene Johnson
Ewen Bremner
George Savvides
as Mr. Nick
Michael Mears
Julian Firth
Petra Markham
Ian Gelder
as Henry Gibbs
Nicholas Tennant
as Curley
Cyril Cusack
as The Ballad Seller
Jonathan Cecil
as Sir Martin Locket
Joan Sims
as Lady Daphne
John Tams
Bill Wallis
as Henry Beauchamp-Harper
Jessica James
Corin Redgrave
as Sir Thomas Neathouse
Howard Goorney
Rosalind Adler
Richard Graydon
Nora Connolly
as Stage actress
Irina Brook
as Georgiana Shillibeer
Sarah Flind
Jane Wymark
Stratford Johns
as Arthur Shillibeer
Don Henderson
as Bob