Plot
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.
Trailer
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Cast
Anthony Hopkins
Charles Dickens
Gordon Jackson
The Narrator (voice)
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
Jenny Agutter
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 (as Jocelyn Birdsall)
Rhoda Lewis
Georgina Hogarth
Gregory Phillips
Smike
Roland Pickering
Charles Dickens (as a child)
