Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Release: 1978-11-06
·Runtime: 350m
·★ 10.0
TV Movie
Drama
Romance
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Thames Television
Cast
Cherie Lunghi
as Lady Thelma Furness
John Shrapnel
as Maj. Alexander Hardinge
Jessie Matthews
as Aunt Bessie Merryman
Maurice Denham
as Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury
Bessie Love
as Lady Cunard
Patrick Troughton
as Clement Attlee
Wensley Pithey
as Winston Churchill
Edward Jewesbury
as Lord Dawson
Hugh Fraser
as Anthony Eden
Gerald Sim
as Theodore Goddard
Cynthia Harris
as Wallis Warfield Simpson
Peggy Ashcroft
as Queen Mary
Charles Keating
as Ernest Simpson
Jeremy Child
as Piers Leigh
Edward Fox
as King Edward VIII
Gary Waldhorn
as Chips Channon
Elsie Randolph
as Lady Colefax
T.R. Bowen
as Duff Cooper
Marius Goring
as King George V
Simon Cadell
as Maj. John Aird
Ed Devereaux
as Lord Beaverbrook
Nigel Hawthorne
as Walter Monkton
Robert Flemyng
as Sir Donald Somervell
William Hoyland
as Lord Perry Brownlow
Kika Markham
as Freda Dudley Ward
Andrew Ray
as Duke of York
Patricia Hodge
as Lady Diana Cooper
Geoffrey Lumsden
as Geoffrey Dawson
