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TV series · 1974

Fall of Eagles

First aired 15 March 1974 Drama TMDB ↗

"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).

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Barry Foster
as Kaiser Wilhelm II
46
Patrick Stewart
as Vladimir Lenin
33
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George Merritt
as Ketterl
83
Esmond Knight
as General Ruzski
67
Erik Chitty
as Hertling
66
Erik Chitty
as Hertling (uncredited)
66
Laurence Naismith
as Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria-Hungary
65
Griffith Jones
as Hintze (uncredited)
64
Maurice Denham
as Kaiser Wilhelm I
64
Geoffrey Toone
as Groener
63
Michael Hordern
as Narrator
62
Michael Hordern
as Narrator (voice)
62
Marius Goring
as Von Hindenburg
61
Olaf Pooley
as Police President Baron Krauss
60
John Phillips
as Grand Duke Nicholas
59
Curd Jürgens
as Otto von Bismarck
58
Peter Copley
as Bethmann-Hollweg
58
Michael Gough
as Helphand
57
Frank Thornton
as Prince Albert
53
Peter Dyneley
as Von Bulow
52
Kevin Stoney
as Father John
52
Robert Brown
as Uncle Serge
52
John Moffatt
as Aehrenthal
51
Ursula Howells
as Empress Maria Fyodorovna
51
John Stratton
as Doctor
48
Charles Gray
as Rodzianko
45
John Bennett
as Georges Clemenceau
45
Barbara Keogh
as Vara
44
T. P. McKenna
as Count Conrad von Hotzendorf
44
Charles Kay
as Tsar Nicholas II
43
Peter Woodthorpe
as Archduke Franz-Ferdinand
42
Tony Jay
as Tsar Alexander III
41
James Cossins
as Count Josi Hoyos
40
Roger Hammond
as Albrecht
37
Sandor Elès
as Count Andrassy
37
Kenneth Colley
as Father Gapon
36
Jim Norton
as Kerensky
36
Miriam Margolyes
as Anna Vyrubova
32
Tom Conti
as Glazkov
32
Gemma Jones
as Princess Vicky
31
Lynn Farleigh
as Krupskaya
31
Gayle Hunnicutt
as Tsarina Alexandra
31
Denis Lill
as 'Fritz', Prince Frederick William
31
Isla Blair
as Grand Duchess Ella
29
Michael Kitchen
as Trotsky
25
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