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1970 | DIRECTED BY NED SHERRIN

The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

Directed by

 
Ned Sherrin

Written by

Writer
Role
 
Caryl Brahms
Written By
 
Ned Sherrin
Written By

Starring

Actors
Character
Charles Dickens
 
Gordon Jackson
The Narrator
 
Arthur Lowe
John Dickens
 
Vivian Pickles
Mrs. Dickens
 
Sybil Thorndike
Elizabeth Ball Dickens
 
Nora Nicholson
Rosa Emma Drummond
 
Stanley Holloway
Mr. Vuffin
 
Mona Washbourne
Mrs. Jarley
 
Dandy Nichols
Mrs. Gamp
 
Freddie Jones
William Shaw
 
Patrick Cargill
Macready
 
Joan Greenwood
Maria Beadnell
 
Gladys Cooper
Mrs. Ternan
 
Michael Wilding
Dolby
Young Maria Beadnall / Mary Hogarth / Ellen Ternan
 
Dorothy Reynolds
Mrs. Roylance / Mrs. Hogarth / Mrs. Prigg / Lady Holland
 
Ken Wynne
Mr. Ellis
 
Gordon Rollings
Codlin / Mould / Ramsay
 
Jeffry Wickham
Lammert / Whitmore / John Black
 
Jocelyn Britton
Kate Dickens
 
Rhoda Lewis
Georgina Hogarth
 
Gregory Phillips
Smike
 
Roland Pickering
Charles Dickens (as a child)
 
Margaret Rutherford
Miss La Creevy (rehearsed only)