
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

Sarah Flind

Richard Graydon

Nora Connolly
Stage actress

David Keyes
Tom

Richard Caldicot
Duke

Cyril Cusack
The Ballad Seller

Corin Redgrave
Sir Thomas Neathouse

Jonathan Cecil
Sir Martin Locket

Mark Arnold
Stage actor

John McEnery
Mr. Maclean

John Tordoff

Mark Lambert

Irina Brook
Georgiana Shillibeer

Michael Andrew

Michael Medwin
Mr. Wells

Richard Clifford
George Locket

David Sterne

Nicholas Tennant
Curley

Bill Wallis
Henry Beauchamp-Harper

Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Bowring

Don Henderson
Bob

Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Harris

David Pugh

John Quarmby

John Tams

Ian Lindsay

Patricia Hayes
The Dowager Duchess

Hugh Lloyd
Viscount

Sally Faulkner

Paul Brooke
Lord Paramount

Murray Melvin
Jeremy Ruttle

Graham Fletcher-Cook
Whistling Billy

Ewen Bremner

Julian Bleach

Merelina Kendall

Jim Carter
Mr. Blackthorn

Robert Putt

Jane Wymark

Ronnie Brody

Maria Charles
The Pure Gatherer

Brenda Bruce

Petra Markham

James Cosmo
Mr. Bowring

Janet Henfrey

Miranda Richardson
Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia

Stephen Rashbrook

Marty Cruikshank

Una Brandon-Jones

Ian Gelder
Henry Gibbs

Jessica James

Julian Firth

Linda Kerr Scott

Howard Goorney

Joan Sims
Lady Daphne

Stratford Johns
Arthur Shillibeer

Joanna Brookes
Stage actress

John Warner

Norman Lumsden

George Savvides
Mr. Nick

Dilys Hamlett
Lady Emma

Michael Hordern
Mr. Tatham

Michael Mears

Derek Jacobi
Mr. Frederick / Sir John

Roger Hammond
Augustus Roddick

Frederick Treves
Samuel Simpson

Christopher Good

Philip McGough
Mr. Croker

Ron Cook

Rosalind Adler

Gregory Floy

Maria Aitken
Lady Amelia

Michael Feast
Mr. Edwin

Alan Ford