The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
02/07/1970
British television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jenny Agutter and Arthur Lowe. Hopkins performance as Dickens saw him nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1971.
Movie Information
Anthony Hopkins
as Charles Dickens
Gordon Jackson
as The Narrator (voice)
Arthur Lowe
as John Dickens
Vivian Pickles
as Mrs. Dickens
Sybil Thorndike
as Elizabeth Ball Dickens
Nora Nicholson
as Rosa Emma Drummond
Stanley Holloway
as Mr. Vuffin
Mona Washbourne
as Mrs. Jarley
Dandy Nichols
as Mrs. Gamp
Freddie Jones
as William Shaw
Patrick Cargill
as Macready
Joan Greenwood
as Maria Beadnell
Gladys Cooper
as Mrs. Ternan
Michael Wilding
as Dolby
Jenny Agutter
as Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan
Dorothy Reynolds
as Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland
Ken Wynne
as Mr. Ellis
Gordon Rollings
as Codlin/Mould/Ramsay
Jeffry Wickham
as Lammert/Whitmore/John Black
Jocelyn Britton
as Kate Dickens (as Jocelyn Birdsall)
Rhoda Lewis
as Georgina Hogarth
Gregory Phillips
as Smike
Roland Pickering
as Charles Dickens (as a child)
