Plot
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
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Cast
Richard Attenborough
Mr. Tungay
Cyril Cusack
Barkis
Edith Evans
Aunt Betsy Trotwood
Pamela Franklin
Dora Spenlow
Susan Hampshire
Agnes Wickfield
Wendy Hiller
Mrs. Micawber
Ron Moody
Uriah Heep
Laurence Olivier
Mr. Creakle
Robin Phillips
David Copperfield
Michael Redgrave
Dan Peggotty
Ralph Richardson
Mr. Micawber
Emlyn Williams
Mr. Dick
Sinéad Cusack
Emily
James Donald
Mr. Murdstone
James Hayter
Porter
Megs Jenkins
Clara Peggotty
Anna Massey
Jane Murdstone
Andrew McCulloch
Ham Peggotty
Nicholas Pennell
Thomas Traddles
Corin Redgrave
James Steerforth
Isobel Black
Clara Copperfield
Liam Redmond
Mr. Quinion
Donald Layne-Smith
Mr. Wickfield
Christopher Moran
Boy Steerforth
Jeffrey Chandler
Boy Traddles
Kim Craik
Child Emily
Helen Cotterill
Mary Ann
Alastair Mackenzie
Little David