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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

Nicholas Tennant
Curley

Philip McGough
Mr. Croker

Stratford Johns
Arthur Shillibeer

John Tordoff

David Pugh

Michael Andrew

David Keyes
Tom

Howard Goorney

Patricia Hayes
The Dowager Duchess

Miranda Richardson
Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia

Linda Kerr Scott

Robert Putt

Sarah Flind

Jane Wymark

Richard Caldicot
Duke

Jim Carter
Mr. Blackthorn

Joanna Brookes
Stage actress

Don Henderson
Bob

Derek Jacobi
Mr. Frederick / Sir John

John Tams

Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Harris

Brenda Bruce

Michael Mears

Joan Sims
Lady Daphne

Petra Markham

John Warner

Frederick Treves
Samuel Simpson

Merelina Kendall

Ron Cook

Julian Firth

John McEnery
Mr. Maclean

Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Bowring

Cyril Cusack
The Ballad Seller

Corin Redgrave
Sir Thomas Neathouse

Alan Ford

Marty Cruikshank

James Cosmo
Mr. Bowring

Graham Fletcher-Cook
Whistling Billy

David Sterne

Gregory Floy

Mark Arnold
Stage actor

Ronnie Brody

Dilys Hamlett
Lady Emma

Mark Lambert

Hugh Lloyd
Viscount

Roger Hammond
Augustus Roddick

Jonathan Cecil
Sir Martin Locket

Rosalind Adler

Ian Lindsay

Janet Henfrey

Michael Hordern
Mr. Tatham

Maria Charles
The Pure Gatherer

Irina Brook
Georgiana Shillibeer

Christopher Good

Nora Connolly
Stage actress

Michael Medwin
Mr. Wells

Michael Feast
Mr. Edwin

Murray Melvin
Jeremy Ruttle

Richard Clifford
George Locket

Bill Wallis
Henry Beauchamp-Harper

Jessica James

Paul Brooke
Lord Paramount

Maria Aitken
Lady Amelia

George Savvides
Mr. Nick

John Quarmby

Stephen Rashbrook

Una Brandon-Jones

Norman Lumsden

Ewen Bremner

Julian Bleach

Richard Graydon

Ian Gelder
Henry Gibbs

Sally Faulkner