Sunday Night Theatre
Overview
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
Cast
Michael Brennan
Jake Middleton / Sergeant Ericsson / Sergeant Hooper / Feret / Casca / Charles / Peter / Johnny Huff / Sergeant-Major Mascher / Captain of the Guard / Inspector Mitchell / Ajax / Korrianke / Monsieur Thomas
Oliver MacGreevy
Michael Hordern
Jacques / Maurice Lammering / Epilogue spoken by (voice) / Rev. James Mavor Morell / Hugh Wigmore / Shylock / Christopher Williams / Major Booth Voysey / Trigorin / General Parmenion
Rupert Davies
Wing Commander / Day-watchman / Oderbruch / Mr. Page / Thompson / Walters / Frontier guard / Thomas Cromwell / Alec Roper / Gabriel Mirabeau / Maurice Szeps
Sarah Lawson
Sister Melanie / Hazel Conway / Esther Eccles / Virginia Lawrence / Lady Chiltern / Valerie Barton / Elizabeth Gray / Brenda Paulton / Jane Moonlight / Bolette
Marius Goring
Tommy Savidge / Chorus / Hjalmar Ekdal / Archbishop Thomas Cranmer / Robert Clive / General Harras / Richard Brinsley Sheridan / Crystof Wolters
Evelyn Moore
Lady Portales / Ellen / Eliza / Mrs. Johnson's School Friend / Phoebe / Lady Portaries
Raymond Huntley
Gordon Meslin / Crichton / Prof. Brander / Mr. Culver / Inspector Hubbard / Spence / Challiss / Lord Laithwaite / Manning
Wolfe Morris
Emilio / Frederico / Porter -The Tartar / Pepe / Ella Petrovitch / Horace Pengard / Nima Kusang / A waiter
Peter Bull
Smith / Sid Rolands / Edward Tappercoom / Tommy / Circus Director / George Ware / Joseph Sedley
Margaretta Scott
Lady Marguerite Blakeney / Emilia / Olivia Geiss / Catherine of Aragon / Empress Elizabeth
Gerard Heinz
Red Cross Commissioner / Alexis Mouranoff / Dr. Justinus van Galen / Poet / Tausch / Achille Weber
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Alfred Burke
Arthur Sandler / Ignatius Farrell / Johnny Jason / Tom Mead / PC Weems / Bowden
Anna Turner
Mrs. Topping / Petra Stockmann / Elsie Pearce / Girl of the Town / Isobel Bateman / Lucy
Patrick Macnee
Captain Peter Niles / Peter / Lodovico / Rolf Hornblower / Captain Marchant
Paul Rogers
Henry VIII / Sir Claude Mulhammer / David Fielden / Bottom / Lt.-Col. Vershinin
Harold Kasket
4th Plebeian / Fourth Plebeian / Pemberton / Umberto Martinez / Porphyrius Petrovitch Somiotoff
Avril Elgar
Ann Padley / Mlle. Brun / Matilda Rockley / Louise / Bolette
Peter Wyngarde
Prokesch / Sylvius / Charles Granillo
Erik Chitty
Weltje / Justice Shallow / Old soak / Mr. Blinkard
Douglas Wilmer
Chauvelin / Captain Solyony / Dr. Pesci / Baron Pflungk
Roger Delgado
Mark Smeaton / Hercules de Soysa / Jean-Marie Merminod / Father Francisco
Jeanette Sterke
Margaret Maskelyne / Maria Fitzherbert / Anne Boleyn
Tony Britton
HRH George, Prince of Wales / Albert Landier / Romeo
Laurence Harvey
Cassio / Orlando
Timothy Bateson
Calchas / Val / Calchas / Alexander
John Fraser
Troilus / Lieutenant Michael Wainwright, RN
Robert Hardy
Orsino / Admetus / William Herndon
Colin Douglas
Captain Priestman / Sampson / Tom Grimthorpe
John Schlesinger
An innkeeper / Amiens
Peter Cushing
Winston Smith / Simpson / Dr. John Rollason
Andrew Cruickshank
Sir Robert Shaw / Baron Molde / Nigel
Terence Alexander
Tom Williams / Maurice Crampton / Percy Courtney
Kenneth Cope
Leading Telegraphist Marshall / Robert Nason
William Russell
Renny / Bill Bolton / Vicomte de Tournai
Patrick Barr
Leggatt / Marcus Brutus
Clive Revill
Citizen / Geoffrey Kenyon
Laurence Hardy
Harold Shearer / Peter Dirk-Smith / A watchman
Barry Foster
Tim Smith / Trooper Bates / Supply Assistant Brooker
Richard Pearson
Father Francis / John Wood / Joe
Kenneth Griffith
Dents Schofield / Rodion Raskolnikoff / Weintraub
Howard Lang
Sir John Lowther / Party Guest / Courier - Pilot
Robert Cawdron
Police Sergeant / Sergeant / Detective Sergeant Clarke
Ronald Howard
Sir Andrew Ffoulkes / Jeff Smith / Michael Maxon, QC
Denholm Elliott
Colby Simpkins / Stefan / Mr. Julien
Patrick Allen
Eddie Kirkley / Major Coombe / Captain Coombe
John Gabriel
Gentz / Darius, King of Persia / Victor (butterfly) / A parasite / An inventor (ant)
Sheila Burrell
Mavis / Anna
Clement McCallin
King Henry V
Donald Pleasence
Syme / Corporal
Nora Nicholson
Margaret Devize
Michael Golden
O'Brien / Wimberber
Alan Wheatley
Roderigo / Rupert Cadell
William Squire
Hector
Arnold Diamond
Emmanuel Goldstein / Goetz
Graham Crowden
Sir Andrew Aguecheek / De Foy
Maxine Audley
Jeanne / Archduchess
Joan Plowright
Phoebe / Adriana
Ursula Howells
Maureen Dartington / Mary Winsloe
Robert Brown
Benjamin Lassies / Hubert Drew
Virginia McKenna
Juliet / Captain Janine Mayhew
Willoughby Goddard
Knowles / Jellyband
Leo McKern
Zdarov / Kostylyov, Owner of the Dosshouse
Ewen Solon
Lacrosse, ship's doctor / Joannides
Walter Gotell
Mir Jaffar
Geoffrey Keen
Gregers Werle / Konstantin Treplyov
Joyce Gregg
André Maranne
Croupier / Agency man
Lee Montague
Moss Hart / Lugo
Sam Wanamaker
Ernie Pandish / Pepe
Jack May
David Gottlieb / Burton
William Lucas
Tony Morell / T. Barrington Chamming
Rosalie Crutchley
Ellida / Masha
Esmond Knight
Major Kartuschke, Legal Officer / Bubnov, a Capmaker
Ralph Michael
Captain Skinner / James Padley
Cyril Shaps
Samuel Crompton / Master Salmon
Peter Sallis
J. G. / Snug
George Murcell
M. Lafarge
John Abineri
Charles / Floor Manager
John Robinson
Dr. Larry Parker / Thomas Northon
Barbara Shelley
Joyce Penrose / Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie
Yvonne Mitchell
Julia Dixon
Hilda Fenemore
Mrs. Parsons
Keith Davis
Parsons Boy
Wilfrid Brambell
Old Man / Thin Prisoner
Sydney Bromley
Waiter
André Morell
O'Brien
Campbell Gray
Parsons
Pamela Grant
Parsons Girl
Janet Barrow
Woman Supervisor
Leonard Sachs
Mr. Charrington
Jill Balcon
Ann Harlow
John Laurie
Allen Campbell
Patrick Troughton
Cardinal Wolsey
Lucie Mannheim
Queen Charlotte
Annette Carell
Princess Caroline of Brunswick
Nicholas Amer
Sebastian
Newton Blick
Sir Toby Belch
George Hall
Fabian
Dilys Hamlett
Viola
James Maxwell
Feste
John Moffatt
Malvolio
Priscilla Morgan
Maria
Maureen Quinney
Olivia
Arthur Skinner
Captain/Priest
David Terence
Valentine
Eric Thompson
Antonio
Paul Vieyra
Curio/Officer
Alex Whittaker
Hautboy
Milton Rosmer
Emperor Franz I
Eileen Peel
Marie-Louise
Martin Starkie
Duke Franz
André van Gyseghem
Chancellor Metternich
Wilfrid Lawson
Flambeau
William Devlin
General Hartmann
Henry Oscar
Count Sedlinsky
Raymond Young
Count Bombelles
Eric Messiter
Marmont
Ian Collin
French Attaché
Charles Hodgson
Tiburce de Lorget
Sheila Shand Gibbs
Thérèse de Lorget
Margot Van der Burgh
Countess Camarata
Peggy Simpson
Fanny Elssier
Conrad Phillips
Officer
MacGregor Urquhart
Old Peasant
Tutte Lemkow
Dancer
Paddy Ward
Robert Raglan
2nd Stranger
Arthur Lowe
Albert Davies
Desmond Llewelyn
Pandimiglio
Michael Aldridge
Sir Edward Fortrose
Pamela Brown
Jennet Jourdemayne
Ballard Berkeley
Bentley
John G. Heller
The Tenor
Peter O'Toole
Rene Latour
Robin Bailey
Lieut -Colonel
Richard Davies
Second sentry
Patrick Jordan
First sentry
Anthony Dawson
Archduke Johann Salvator
Keith Michell
Crown Prince Rudolf
Sean Connery
Mountain McClintock
Michael Caine
Fighter
John Pike
Boy
Nigel Davenport
Jackson
Maggie Smith
Percy Herbert
Denys Graham
Faith Brook
Caroline Sophia
Mervyn Johns
Samuel Pepys
David Horne
Capulet
John Phillips
Escales / Chorus
Barry Jones
Henry Aspen
John Arnatt
Ninian Edwards
Harry Andrews
Lt. Geza von Mattachich
Laurence Naismith
Arthur Lawton
Ian Hendry
Leading Seaman Dembury
Peter Cellier
De Grignon
Robert Shaw
Herbert
Alec McCowen
Quillary
Jeffrey Segal
Corporal Albert Pym
Richard Shaw
Lieutenant
Richard Vernon
Egeon
Noel Howlett
Sir Johnstone Kentley
Barbara Lott
Viola
Gerald Sim
First Officer
Alexander Gauge
Señor Gonzales
Michael Balfour
Rudolfo
Alfred Lynch
Alyoshka, a Cobbler
Michael Goodliffe
Udolphus McCluskey
Elspet Gray
Rita Ronan
Trevor Howard
Kellis
Iris Russell
Lena
Joan Hickson
Mrs. Moore /Mrs. Bateman
Evelyn Moore
Second Woman Searcher
Frank Duncan
Rogers
Frank Thornton
Sailor
Aleksander Browne
Islander
Daphne Slater
Lieutenant Maud Harding
Lewis Casson
Captain Elijah Cadman
Leslie Dwyer
Lovelace Dashworth
Nicholas Hannen
Admiral Wainwright
Marjorie Fielding
Mrs. Wainwright
Basil Appleby
Lieutenant Michael Wainwright RN
Tilsa Page
Margaret Wainwright
Katie Johnson
Martie Craven
Peter Jones
B Kaghan
Miles Malleson
Quince
Ronald Fraser
Flute
Michael Bates
Starveling
John Le Mesurier
Prosecuting Counsel
Albert Finney
Arnold
Patrick McGoohan
Seth Makepeace
Paul Eddington
The Hon. Willoughby Speake
Edward Mulhare
The Rev. Joseph Radcliffe
Alastair Hunter
Colonel Merridew
Graham Ashley
Ned Duckworth
Michael Segal
Hugh Burden
Gordon van Ketzler
Warren Mitchell
Sam Harris
Eleanor Summerfield
Miss Jenkins
Bernard Horsfall
Frank Barrett
Eileen Way
Gladys Gibson
Diana Fairfax
Katherine Anderson
George Coulouris
Poppa Brodsky
Sylvia Syms
Janet Towne
Bernard Lee
Hoederer
David McCallum
Hugo
Frank Finlay
Louis
David Graham
TV Director
Nigel Green
Freddie Henderson
Claire Bloom
Martine
Margaret Tyzack
Felicia Peterson
Geoffrey Bayldon
John Carson
Harold
Joseph Fürst
Doctor
Martin Miller
Nicholas Loewenschild
Richard Caldicot
Governor Pigot
George Woodbridge
Admiral Watson
Brian Parker
John Shaw
Barbara Murray
Eileen Perry
Sydney Tafler
Harry Soames
Charles Gray
Waring
Duncan Lamont
Ernie
John Welsh
Padre
Paul Whitsun-Jones
Papa Valbella
John Bailey
Peter Krek
Bill Nagy
Sgt. Martin
Earl Cameron
Adam
Clifton Jones
Cain
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Rating source
- TMDB
