Plot
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
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Cast
Derek Jacobi
Mr. Frederick / Sir John
Paul Brooke
Lord Paramount
Julian Firth
John Tams
Ian Targett
Paddy Ward
Jo Warne
Chris Whittingham
Rory Murray
Henry Ottaway
Corin Redgrave
Sir Thomas Neathouse
Sally Ashby
Brenda Bruce
Cindy Oswin
Bernard Padden
Emma Piper
John Warner
Roger Hammond
Augustus Roddick
Alec Wallis
Marquess
Marty Cruikshank
Cordelia Ditton
Susan Field
Graham Seed
Stanley Lloyd
Hilary Sesta
Murray Melvin
Jeremy Ruttle
Jonathan Cecil
Sir Martin Locket
John Atkinson
Una Brandon-Jones
James Greene
Zoe Hicks
Brian Poyser
Norman Lumsden
Richard Clifford
George Locket
Bill Wallis
Henry Beauchamp-Harper
Rosalind Adler
Rex Doyle
Reginald Jessup
Christine Pilgrim
Joanna Maude
Amanda Wenban
Hugh Lloyd
Viscount
Frederick Treves
Samuel Simpson
Ben Aris
Gregory Floy
Howard Goorney
Christopher Good
Petra Markham
Ian Lindsay
Irina Brook
Georgiana Shillibeer
Sarah Flind
Penny Bunton
Julian Bleach
Jean Murphy
Fiona McAlpine
Anne Romyn
Ann-Marie Gwatkin
Emily
James Cosmo
Mr. Bowring
Terence Conoley
James Coyle
Stephen Daltry
Kit Jackson
Giles Oldershaw
David Trevena
Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Bowring
Philip McGough
Mr. Croker
Iain Andrew
Mara Purcell
Eric Francis
Jack Gittings
Bill Stewart
Peter Wyatt
Ian Gelder
Henry Gibbs
Joan Sims
Lady Daphne
Beth Ellis
Janet Henfrey
Merelina Kendall
Charmian May
Madeleine Moffat
Phillada Sewell
Dilys Hamlett
Lady Emma
Maria Aitken
Lady Amelia
Laura Cox
Sally Faulkner
Tamsin Heatley
Darlene Johnson
Kristin Milward
Jane Wymark
Auriol Smith
Lady Augusta
Stratford Johns
Arthur Shillibeer
Leon Davis
James Grant
Richard Graydon
Bruce Green
Patricia Napier
Peter Stockbridge
Richard Caldicot
Duke
Patricia Hayes
The Dowager Duchess
Ruth Mitchell
The Girl
Jim Carter
Mr. Blackthorn
Arthur Kelly
Grease remover seller
Tony Frey
Irene Frederick
Siobhan Nicholas
Chickweed seller
Robin Meredith
Crossing sweep
Miranda Richardson
Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia
Joanna Brookes
Stage actress
Nora Connolly
Stage actress
John Dalby
Stage actor
Ron Emslie
Stage actor
Knight Mantell
Stage actor
Mark Arnold
Stage actor
Michael Feast
Mr. Edwin
Michael Hordern
Mr. Tatham
Peter Bailie
Jan Lower
Pamela Moiseiwitsch
John Moore
Malcolm Mudie
Simon Slater
John McEnery
Mr. Maclean
Don Henderson
Bob
Michael Andrew
Graham Fletcher-Cook
Whistling Billy
David Grahame
Kenneth McClellan
John Tordoff
Robert Terson
Nick Edmett
Grease buyer
Michael Medwin
Mr. Wells
Raymond Brody
Ronnie Brody
Alan Ford
Mark Lambert
Stewart Permutt
Peter Waddington
Maria Charles
The Pure Gatherer
Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Harris
Ewen Bremner
Ron Cook
Christopher Hancock
Joe
Jessica James
Linda Kerr Scott
David Sterne
Preston Lockwood
Mr. Benjamin
James Cairncross
Mr. Trott
Maurice Elliot
Richard Henry
John Fahey
David Glover
Robert Putt
David Pugh
John Harding
Mr. Priddle
Chris Darwin
Theatre doorman
Christine Ellerbeck
Harry Jones
Colleen McClure
John Tramper
Nicolas Tennant
Curley
Charlie Bartle
Fred Beauman
Stephen Boyes
Johnnie Clayton
David Keyes
Tom
Dominic Geary
Philip Gunderson
Ray Martin
Terry John
Arthur Nightingale
Harry Klein
George Savvides
Mr. Nick
John Quarmby
Harry Webster
Dawn Charatan
Joan Dainty
Deddie Davies
Mark Knox
Dominic Martinez
Stephen Rashbrook
Vince Starr
Paul Wilce
Michael Mears
Cyril Cusack
The Ballad Seller