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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

Christopher Good

Brenda Bruce

Janet Henfrey

Merelina Kendall

Jim Carter
Mr. Blackthorn

David Keyes
Tom

Marty Cruikshank

Joan Sims
Lady Daphne

Ron Cook

Rosalind Adler

Julian Bleach

Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Bowring

Michael Feast
Mr. Edwin

Sally Faulkner

Sarah Flind

Graham Fletcher-Cook
Whistling Billy

Maria Charles
The Pure Gatherer

Michael Hordern
Mr. Tatham

John Tordoff

David Pugh

George Savvides
Mr. Nick

Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Harris

Linda Kerr Scott

Maria Aitken
Lady Amelia

Nicholas Tennant
Curley

John Quarmby

Murray Melvin
Jeremy Ruttle

Bill Wallis
Henry Beauchamp-Harper

John McEnery
Mr. Maclean

Patricia Hayes
The Dowager Duchess

Irina Brook
Georgiana Shillibeer

Jane Wymark

Ewen Bremner

John Tams

Don Henderson
Bob

John Warner

Joanna Brookes
Stage actress

Nora Connolly
Stage actress

Jessica James

Dilys Hamlett
Lady Emma

Michael Andrew

Paul Brooke
Lord Paramount

Una Brandon-Jones

Ian Lindsay

David Sterne

Gregory Floy

James Cosmo
Mr. Bowring

Stratford Johns
Arthur Shillibeer

Alan Ford

Ian Gelder
Henry Gibbs

Mark Arnold
Stage actor

Robert Putt

Norman Lumsden

Michael Mears

Petra Markham

Corin Redgrave
Sir Thomas Neathouse

Michael Medwin
Mr. Wells

Richard Clifford
George Locket

Richard Graydon

Mark Lambert

Roger Hammond
Augustus Roddick

Ronnie Brody

Derek Jacobi
Mr. Frederick / Sir John

Hugh Lloyd
Viscount

Philip McGough
Mr. Croker

Richard Caldicot
Duke

Stephen Rashbrook

Jonathan Cecil
Sir Martin Locket

Howard Goorney

Miranda Richardson
Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia

Cyril Cusack
The Ballad Seller

Julian Firth