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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

Don Henderson
Bob

Derek Jacobi
Mr. Frederick / Sir John

Paul Brooke
Lord Paramount

John Tams

Petra Markham

Ian Lindsay

Una Brandon-Jones

Norman Lumsden

Merelina Kendall

Irina Brook
Georgiana Shillibeer

Nora Connolly
Stage actress

Corin Redgrave
Sir Thomas Neathouse

Maria Charles
The Pure Gatherer

Ron Cook

Joan Sims
Lady Daphne

Jessica James

Christopher Good

Jim Carter
Mr. Blackthorn

Michael Medwin
Mr. Wells

Murray Melvin
Jeremy Ruttle

Jonathan Cecil
Sir Martin Locket

Alan Ford

Jane Wymark

Marty Cruikshank

Rosalind Adler

Dilys Hamlett
Lady Emma

Patricia Hayes
The Dowager Duchess

Ronnie Brody

Mark Lambert

George Savvides
Mr. Nick

Ewen Bremner

Stephen Rashbrook

Michael Mears

Roger Hammond
Augustus Roddick

Richard Clifford
George Locket

Stratford Johns
Arthur Shillibeer

Richard Graydon

Joanna Brookes
Stage actress

Michael Andrew

Sally Faulkner

David Sterne

Nicholas Tennant
Curley

John Warner

Frederick Treves
Samuel Simpson

Michael Feast
Mr. Edwin

James Cosmo
Mr. Bowring

Mark Arnold
Stage actor

Graham Fletcher-Cook
Whistling Billy

Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Harris

David Keyes
Tom

Janet Henfrey

John Tordoff

Gregory Floy

Julian Firth

Brenda Bruce

Howard Goorney

Maria Aitken
Lady Amelia

John McEnery
Mr. Maclean

Cyril Cusack
The Ballad Seller

Philip McGough
Mr. Croker

John Quarmby

Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Bowring

Richard Caldicot
Duke

Miranda Richardson
Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia

Sarah Flind

Robert Putt

David Pugh

Bill Wallis
Henry Beauchamp-Harper

Hugh Lloyd
Viscount

Julian Bleach

Michael Hordern
Mr. Tatham

Linda Kerr Scott

Ian Gelder
Henry Gibbs