

28/03/1989
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.

Paul Scofield
as The Birdman

David Threlfall
as Jack Jenkins

Helen Mirren
as Clemmie Jenkins

Helen Pearce
as Gracie Jenkins

Max Rennie
as Daniel Pender

David Suchet
as Will

Jeremy Kemp
as Mr. Wellbeloved

John Hallam
as Treve Pender

Barbara Ewing
as Mary Pender

Dexter Fletcher
as Big Tim

Nicholas Jones
as Vicar

Joanna Bartholemew
as Miss Tregarthen

Barbara Jefford
as Auntie Mildred

Fergus Rees
as The Birdman as a Boy
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