TV series · 1983
Shackleton
First aired 13 April 1983 Drama / Action & Adventure TMDB ↗
A four-part drama adaptation about the life of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Based on Shackleton’s own journals. In 1914 Ernest Shackleton chooses to lead a team on their famous journey aboard the Endurance. When the ship is trapped and crushed by pack-ice, Shackleton and five of his men embark on a desperate 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia.
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David Schofield
as Sir Ernest Shackleton
David Rodigan
as Frank Wild
Michael Hayward
as ‘Putty’ Marston
Everyone else (14) ↓
Geoffrey Chater
as Sir Clements Markham
Raymond Adamson
as R.G.S. Member
Robert James
as Sir John Scott-Keltie
Leonard Maguire
as Harry McNeish
Robert Lang
as Major Darwin
Benjamin Whitrow
as Roald Amundsen
Leslie Schofield
as Ernie Joyce
Neil Stacy
as Robert Scott
John Flanagan
as Tom Crean
Paul Hastings
as Dr. Edward Wilson
Victoria Fairbrother
as Emily Dorman
John Watts
as Frank Worsley
Peter Dahlsen
as Frank Hurley
John Wheatley
as Percy Blackborrow