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.
Charles Dickens
Elizabeth Ball Dickens
Mrs. Ternan
Maria Beadnell
Mr. Vuffin
Dolby
Mrs. Jarley
The Narrator (voice)
John Dickens
Mrs. Dickens
Rosa Emma Drummond
Mrs. Gamp
William Shaw
Macready
Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan
Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland
Codlin/Mould/Ramsay
Lammert/Whitmore/John Black
Georgina Hogarth
Mr. Ellis
Kate Dickens (as Jocelyn Birdsall)
Smike
Charles Dickens (as a child)
