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The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Release: 1970-07-02
·Runtime: 90m
Drama
TV Movie
British television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jenny Agutter and Arthur Lowe. Hopkins performance as Dickens saw him nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1971.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Cast
Gordon Rollings
as Codlin/Mould/Ramsay
Rhoda Lewis
as Georgina Hogarth
Stanley Holloway
as Mr. Vuffin
Gladys Cooper
as Mrs. Ternan
Gordon Jackson
as The Narrator (voice)
Arthur Lowe
as John Dickens
Mona Washbourne
as Mrs. Jarley
Dandy Nichols
as Mrs. Gamp
Patrick Cargill
as Macready
Joan Greenwood
as Maria Beadnell
Jenny Agutter
as Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan
Anthony Hopkins
as Charles Dickens
Vivian Pickles
as Mrs. Dickens
Nora Nicholson
as Rosa Emma Drummond
Michael Wilding
as Dolby
Dorothy Reynolds
as Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland
Jeffry Wickham
as Lammert/Whitmore/John Black
Sybil Thorndike
as Elizabeth Ball Dickens
Freddie Jones
as William Shaw