The Duke
A priceless true story.
In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happened next became the stuff of legend.
Director Roger Michell
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Cast
John Heffernan
Neddie Cussen
Craig Conway
Mr. Walker
Philip Gascoyne
Press Photographer (uncredited)
James Wilby
Judge Aarvold
Michael Gould
Express Editor
Darren Charman
Duke of Wellington
Matthew Goode
Jeremy Hutchinson
Richard McCabe
Rab Butler
Neal Barry
Gallery Security Guard
Val McLane
Freda
Joshua McGuire
Eric Crowther
Charlie Richmond
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Michael Hodgson
Barry Spence
Claire Lams
BBC Receptionist
Ashley Kumar
Javid Akram
Jim Broadbent
Kempton Bunton
Helen Mirren
Dorothy Bunton
Fionn Whitehead
Jackie Bunton
Andrew Havill
Sir Philip Hendy
Sarah Beck Mather
Press Woman
Sian Clifford
Dr. Unsworth
Jack Bandeira
Kenny Bunton
Heather Craney
Debbie
Stephen Rashbrook
Foreman
Cliff Burnett
Wilf
Matthew Steer
Passing BBC Manager
Dorian Lough
DI Macpherson
Anna Maxwell Martin
Mrs. Gowling
Charlotte Spencer
Pammy
Charles Edwards
Sir Joseph Simpson
Sam Swainsbury
DI Brompton
Austin Haynes
Scruffy Little Boy
Michael Mather
Eddie
Sammy T. Dobson
Bakery Assistant
Simon Hubbard
PC Myton
Aimee Kelly
Irene Boslover