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TV series · 1965

BBC Play of the Month

First aired 19 October 1965 TMDB ↗

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

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Charles Carson
as Stanpitz
80
Charles Carson
as Gladstone
80
Charles Carson
as The Earl of Caversham
80
Cathleen Nesbitt
as Lady Matheson
76
Kathleen Harrison
as Mrs. Ashworth
73
Donald Wolfit
as Pastor Manders
63
Flora Robson
as May Beringer
63
David Hutcheson
as Lord Moyne
60
David Hutcheson
as General de Coetlogan
60
Jean Anderson
as Miss Ramsden
57
Patience Collier
as Nefedovna
55
Rachel Kempson
as Fraulein von Kesten
55
Rachel Kempson
as Mrs. Whitefield
55
Rachel Kempson
as Ruth Wilcox
55
Rachel Kempson
as Miss Trafalgar Gower
55
Vincent Price
as Dr. Austin Sloper
54
Thora Hird
as Clare Soppitt
54
Thora Hird
as Nurse
54
Michael Hordern
as Mr. Posket
54
Michael Hordern
as God
54
Michael Hordern
as The Devil
54
Michael Hordern
as Tartuffe
54
Michael Hordern
as Lear
54
Robert Flemyng
as Gen. Canynge
53
Stephen Murray
as Sir William Collyer
53
Stephen Murray
as Lord Charles Cantilupe
53
William Mervyn
as Sir Hector Rose
53
Coral Browne
as Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez
52
Coral Browne
as Mrs. Erlynne
52
Coral Browne
as Lady Bracknell
52
David Markham
as Jacob Twisden
52
Lloyd Lamble
as Beckett
51
John Phillips
as Major General Atkins
51
Rupert Davies
as Commissaire Maigret
49
Margaret Lockwood
as Louise Harrington
49
Michael Gough
as Eliut
48
Edward Burnham
as Lord Capulet
48
Herbert Lom
as Dr. Görtler
48
Grant Taylor
as Second Reporter
47
Roger Delgado
as Officer of the Holy Brotherhood
47
Norman Mitchell
as Driver
47
Paul Hardwick
as Antonio
46
Allan Cuthbertson
as Mr McBryde
45
Fulton Mackay
as Eck
43
Fulton Mackay
as Engstrand
43
Brian Rawlinson
as Aircraftman Parsons
43
Graham Crowden
as James Telfer
42
Leonard Maguire
as Martin
41
John Stratton
as Alderman Joseph Helliwell
39
Warren Mitchell
as Spas T Raikin, Traveller's Aid Representative
39
Geoffrey Palmer
as Monteith
38
Ray Barrett
as Knight
38
Tony Steedman
as Sir Amias Paulet
38
John Ringham
as Sir Christopher Hatton
37
John Ringham
as Major von Dust
37
Diana Coupland
as Sally
37
David Kelly
as Mr. Casey / College Director
36
Shane Rimmer
as Marine Sergeant
36
Norman Rossington
as Lollio
36
Philip Latham
as Esteban
36
Ronald Fraser
as Serebryakov
35
Ronald Fraser
as Squire
35
Ronald Fraser
as Col. Pickering
35
Ian Holm
as Oedipus
34
Ian Holm
as Khrushchov
34
Ian Holm
as Alceste
34
John Cater
as Augustus Colpoys
33
Victor Spinetti
as Hatch
32
Victor Spinetti
as Trivelin
32
Barry Warren
as Frank Power
32
Ram John Holder
as Friday
31
Judi Dench
as Elizabeth Moris
30
Maggie Smith
as Ann Whitefield
30
Maggie Smith
as Portia
30
Maggie Smith
as Epifana
30
Clifton Jones
as Cacambo
28
Susan Hampshire
as Mabel Chiltern
28
Benjamin Whitrow
as Duke of Albany
28
Benjamin Whitrow
as Richard Halton
28
Marian Diamond
as Jean Bell
28
David Bailie
as Sgt. Davidson
27
David Bailie
as Marcadé
27
Michael Graham Cox
as Bolbotun
27
Kenneth Colley
as Yolinichev
27
Michael Culver
as Holborn
27
Rodney Bewes
as Constable
27
Timothy Carlton
as Freddie Peel
26
Timothy Carlton
as Captain de Foenix
26
Ray Brooks
as Yasha
26
Michael Gambon
as Gregory
25
Michael Gambon
as Theseus
25
Michael Gambon
as Lt. Cmdr. Bill Rogers
25
Michael Gambon
as Boris Trigorin
25
Tony Bill
as Lee Harvey Oswald
25
Tony Bill
as Biff
25
Sarah Badel
as Natasha
22
Sarah Badel
as Goneril
22
Sarah Badel
as Olwen Peel
22
Donal McCann
as Stephen Dedalus
22
Donal McCann
as Theodore
22
Roger Rees
as Hugh Voysey
21
Susan Fleetwood
as Freda Caplan
21
Julian Holloway
as Algernon 'Algy' Moncrieff
21
Julian Holloway
as Sir Chichester Frayne
21
Geoffrey Hughes
as Second Workman
21
Nicola Pagett
as Diana Lake
20
Roger Sloman
as Bertrand Barère
19
Jeremy Irons
as Edward Voysey
17
David Gwillim
as Lord Longeville
16
Michael Kitchen
as Acaste
16
Christopher Witty
as Tibby Schlegel
15
Sally Thomsett
as Pamela Harrington
15
Cherie Lunghi
as Anna Danby
13
Cherie Lunghi
as Célimène
13
Christopher Guard
as Lucius
11
Christopher Guard
11
Kevin McNally
9
Hugh Ross
as A Forester
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Timothy Stark
as Eyolf
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Andrew Robertson
as Sir Benjamin Backbite
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