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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

Norman Lumsden

Sally Faulkner

Jim Carter
Mr. Blackthorn

Nicholas Tennant
Curley

Michael Medwin
Mr. Wells

Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Harris

John Warner

Cyril Cusack
The Ballad Seller

Rosalind Adler

Michael Andrew

John Quarmby

Sarah Flind

Maria Charles
The Pure Gatherer

John Tams

Marty Cruikshank

Philip McGough
Mr. Croker

David Pugh

Richard Caldicot
Duke

Ian Lindsay

Murray Melvin
Jeremy Ruttle

Jonathan Cecil
Sir Martin Locket

Roger Hammond
Augustus Roddick

Michael Hordern
Mr. Tatham

Richard Clifford
George Locket

Irina Brook
Georgiana Shillibeer

Merelina Kendall

Ron Cook

Gregory Floy

Mark Lambert

George Savvides
Mr. Nick

Una Brandon-Jones

Ian Gelder
Henry Gibbs

Linda Kerr Scott

Janet Henfrey

Corin Redgrave
Sir Thomas Neathouse

Richard Graydon

Stephen Rashbrook

Michael Mears

Maria Aitken
Lady Amelia

Julian Bleach

John McEnery
Mr. Maclean

Jessica James

Derek Jacobi
Mr. Frederick / Sir John

Graham Fletcher-Cook
Whistling Billy

Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Bowring

Julian Firth

John Tordoff

David Keyes
Tom

Hugh Lloyd
Viscount

Nora Connolly
Stage actress

Michael Feast
Mr. Edwin

Dilys Hamlett
Lady Emma

Mark Arnold
Stage actor

Petra Markham

Bill Wallis
Henry Beauchamp-Harper

Don Henderson
Bob

Ewen Bremner

David Sterne

Robert Putt

Brenda Bruce

James Cosmo
Mr. Bowring

Joan Sims
Lady Daphne

Miranda Richardson
Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia

Alan Ford

Christopher Good

Patricia Hayes
The Dowager Duchess

Joanna Brookes
Stage actress

Howard Goorney

Jane Wymark

Stratford Johns
Arthur Shillibeer

Ronnie Brody

Paul Brooke
Lord Paramount