Plot
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer's Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.
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Cast
Robert Pugh
The Claimant
John Kani
Bogle
Stephen Fry
Hawkins
John Gielgud
Cockburn
Robert Hardy
Lord Rivers
Rachael Dowling
Mary Anne
Charles Gray
Arundell
James Villiers
Uncle Henry
Dudley Sutton
Onslow Onslow
Paola Dionisotti
The Dowager
Perry Fenwick
John Holmes
Tom McCabe
Keneally
Christopher Benjamin
Gibbes
Roger Hammond
Cubitt
John Challis
Rous the Landlord
Chas Bryer
Bowker
Roger May
Baigent
Anita Dobson
Fanny Loder
Howard Lew Lewis
The Hotel Manager
Ursula Howells
Lady Doughty
Jennifer Hennessy
Cousin Alicia
Matt Wilkinson
Tom Hibbert
Iain Cuthbertson
Dr. McKechnie
Tom Harrison
Dowager's Priest
Gordon Langford Rowe
Dr. Lipscome
Sion Tudor Owen
Charles Orton
Joanna Swain
Workhouse Matron
Ralph Nossek
Workhouse Master
Richard Underwood
Stage Doorkeeper
Sarah Sutcliffe
Lizzie Holmes
Mike Ames
Street Preacher
Vladimir Vega
Tom Castro
Fiona Carnegie
Dowager's Maid
David Crawford
Court Usher
