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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

John Warner

Stratford Johns
Arthur Shillibeer

Gregory Floy

Merelina Kendall

Ron Cook

Norman Lumsden

Maria Aitken
Lady Amelia

Joanna Brookes
Stage actress

Nora Connolly
Stage actress

Don Henderson
Bob

Marty Cruikshank

Frederick Treves
Samuel Simpson

John McEnery
Mr. Maclean

Derek Jacobi
Mr. Frederick / Sir John

Jim Carter
Mr. Blackthorn

Robert Putt

Ian Gelder
Henry Gibbs

Mark Lambert

Michael Hordern
Mr. Tatham

Michael Medwin
Mr. Wells

Brenda Bruce

Ronnie Brody

John Quarmby

Irina Brook
Georgiana Shillibeer

Jane Wymark

David Pugh

Ian Lindsay

Dilys Hamlett
Lady Emma

Alan Ford

Nicholas Tennant
Curley

Stephen Rashbrook

Janet Henfrey

Richard Caldicot
Duke

Maria Charles
The Pure Gatherer

Una Brandon-Jones

Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Harris

Richard Clifford
George Locket

Sally Faulkner

Julian Firth

Petra Markham

James Cosmo
Mr. Bowring

Linda Kerr Scott

Philip McGough
Mr. Croker

Mark Arnold
Stage actor

Ewen Bremner

Sarah Flind

Julian Bleach

David Keyes
Tom

Corin Redgrave
Sir Thomas Neathouse

Cyril Cusack
The Ballad Seller

Michael Andrew

Howard Goorney

Michael Feast
Mr. Edwin

Paul Brooke
Lord Paramount

John Tams

Graham Fletcher-Cook
Whistling Billy

Jessica James

Roger Hammond
Augustus Roddick

Jonathan Cecil
Sir Martin Locket

Bill Wallis
Henry Beauchamp-Harper

Hugh Lloyd
Viscount

Richard Graydon

Patricia Hayes
The Dowager Duchess

John Tordoff

David Sterne

Rosalind Adler

Miranda Richardson
Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia

Murray Melvin
Jeremy Ruttle

Christopher Good

Joan Sims
Lady Daphne

George Savvides
Mr. Nick

Michael Mears

Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Bowring