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
Trailer
Cast
Anna Maxwell Martin
Mrs. Gowling
Aimee Kelly
Irene Boslover
Charlie Richmond
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Michael Hodgson
Barry Spence
Joshua McGuire
Eric Crowther
Philip Gascoyne
Press Photographer (uncredited)
Stephen Rashbrook
Foreman
Matthew Steer
Passing BBC Manager
Jim Broadbent
Kempton Bunton
Helen Mirren
Dorothy Bunton
Matthew Goode
Jeremy Hutchinson
Cliff Burnett
Wilf
Charles Edwards
Sir Joseph Simpson
Jack Bandeira
Kenny Bunton
Heather Craney
Debbie
John Heffernan
Neddie Cussen
Val McLane
Freda
Sian Clifford
Dr. Unsworth
Dorian Lough
DI Macpherson
Sarah Beck Mather
Press Woman
Michael Gould
Express Editor
Michael Mather
Eddie
Richard McCabe
Rab Butler
Andrew Havill
Sir Philip Hendy
Sam Swainsbury
DI Brompton
Fionn Whitehead
Jackie Bunton
Charlotte Spencer
Pammy
Ashley Kumar
Javid Akram
Craig Conway
Mr. Walker
Sammy T. Dobson
Bakery Assistant
Darren Charman
Duke of Wellington
James Wilby
Judge Aarvold
Claire Lams
BBC Receptionist
Austin Haynes
Scruffy Little Boy
Simon Hubbard
PC Myton
Neal Barry
Gallery Security Guard