The Tichborne Claimant
The Tichborne Claimant
Release: 1999-11-12
·Runtime: 98m
·★ 8.0
Drama
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer's Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Redbus Film Distribution
Bigger Picture Company
Isle of Man Film Commission
Swiftcall
Cast
Ursula Howells
as Lady Doughty
David Crawford
as Court Usher
Robert Pugh
as The Claimant
Paola Dionisotti
as The Dowager
Charles Gray
as Arundell
Iain Cuthbertson
as Dr. McKechnie
Ralph Nossek
as Workhouse Master
Robert Hardy
as Lord Rivers
Christopher Benjamin
as Gibbes
John Gielgud
as Cockburn
Dudley Sutton
as Onslow Onslow
Anita Dobson
as Fanny Loder
James Villiers
as Uncle Henry
Perry Fenwick
as John Holmes
Jennifer Hennessy
as Cousin Alicia
Sion Tudor Owen
as Charles Orton
Howard Lew Lewis
as The Hotel Manager
John Kani
as Bogle
Stephen Fry
as Hawkins
Roger Hammond
as Cubitt
John Challis
as Rous the Landlord
