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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 McEnery
Mr. Maclean

Ron Cook

Cyril Cusack
The Ballad Seller

Dilys Hamlett
Lady Emma

David Pugh

Roger Hammond
Augustus Roddick

Rosalind Adler

Hugh Lloyd
Viscount

Frederick Treves
Samuel Simpson

Marty Cruikshank

Sally Faulkner

Ewen Bremner

Robert Putt

Brenda Bruce

Sarah Flind

Graham Fletcher-Cook
Whistling Billy

David Keyes
Tom

John Tordoff

Jessica James

Murray Melvin
Jeremy Ruttle

Gregory Floy

Christopher Good

Joan Sims
Lady Daphne

Michael Mears

Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Bowring

John Warner

Joanna Brookes
Stage actress

George Savvides
Mr. Nick

Irina Brook
Georgiana Shillibeer

Michael Andrew

Julian Firth

Richard Clifford
George Locket

Merelina Kendall

Bill Wallis
Henry Beauchamp-Harper

Julian Bleach

Jim Carter
Mr. Blackthorn

Miranda Richardson
Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia

Mark Arnold
Stage actor

Michael Medwin
Mr. Wells

Alan Ford

Howard Goorney

Paul Brooke
Lord Paramount

Patricia Hayes
The Dowager Duchess

Mark Lambert

John Quarmby

Corin Redgrave
Sir Thomas Neathouse

Ian Gelder
Henry Gibbs

Maria Aitken
Lady Amelia

Jonathan Cecil
Sir Martin Locket

Richard Caldicot
Duke

Michael Hordern
Mr. Tatham

Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Harris

Nicholas Tennant
Curley

Nora Connolly
Stage actress

Ronnie Brody

Stephen Rashbrook

Derek Jacobi
Mr. Frederick / Sir John

John Tams

Una Brandon-Jones

James Cosmo
Mr. Bowring

Don Henderson
Bob

Petra Markham

Philip McGough
Mr. Croker

Jane Wymark

Stratford Johns
Arthur Shillibeer

Richard Graydon

Janet Henfrey

Michael Feast
Mr. Edwin

Norman Lumsden

Ian Lindsay

Maria Charles
The Pure Gatherer

David Sterne

Linda Kerr Scott