The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

Freddie Jones as William Shaw Gordon Rollings as Codlin/Mould/Ramsay Rhoda Lewis as Georgina Hogarth Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Ternan Jenny Agutter as Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan Jeffry Wickham as Lammert/Whitmore/John Black Anthony Hopkins as Charles Dickens Gordon Jackson as The Narrator (voice) Vivian Pickles as Mrs. Dickens Dorothy Reynolds as Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland Michael Wilding as Dolby Arthur Lowe as John Dickens Sybil Thorndike as Elizabeth Ball Dickens Nora Nicholson as Rosa Emma Drummond Stanley Holloway as Mr. Vuffin Dandy Nichols as Mrs. Gamp Patrick Cargill as Macready Joan Greenwood as Maria Beadnell Mona Washbourne as Mrs. Jarley