The Duke
A priceless true story.
In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happened next became the stuff of legend.
Director Roger Michell
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Cast
Matthew Goode
Jeremy Hutchinson
Heather Craney
Debbie
Neal Barry
Gallery Security Guard
Philip Gascoyne
Press Photographer (uncredited)
Fionn Whitehead
Jackie Bunton
Charles Edwards
Sir Joseph Simpson
Dorian Lough
DI Macpherson
Ashley Kumar
Javid Akram
Simon Hubbard
PC Myton
Richard McCabe
Rab Butler
Andrew Havill
Sir Philip Hendy
Sarah Beck Mather
Press Woman
Michael Mather
Eddie
Sammy T. Dobson
Bakery Assistant
Darren Charman
Duke of Wellington
Helen Mirren
Dorothy Bunton
Charlotte Spencer
Pammy
Cliff Burnett
Wilf
Matthew Steer
Passing BBC Manager
Craig Conway
Mr. Walker
Anna Maxwell Martin
Mrs. Gowling
Stephen Rashbrook
Foreman
Claire Lams
BBC Receptionist
Sian Clifford
Dr. Unsworth
Sam Swainsbury
DI Brompton
James Wilby
Judge Aarvold
John Heffernan
Neddie Cussen
Austin Haynes
Scruffy Little Boy
Joshua McGuire
Eric Crowther
Jack Bandeira
Kenny Bunton
Aimee Kelly
Irene Boslover
Michael Hodgson
Barry Spence
Val McLane
Freda
Jim Broadbent
Kempton Bunton
Charlie Richmond
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Michael Gould
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