I, Claudius poster

TV series · 1976

I, Claudius

“Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.”

First aired 20 September 1976 Drama / War & Politics TMDB ↗

Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.

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Margaret Tyzack
as Antonia
45
John Cater
as Narcissus
44
Brian Blessed
as Augustus
39
Derek Jacobi
as Claudius
37
Patrick Stewart
as Sejanus
36
David Robb
as Germanicus
29
James Faulkner
as Herod Agrippa
28
Sheila White
as Messalina
27
Kevin McNally
as Castor
20
Everyone else (24) ↓
Esmond Knight
as Domitius
70
Denis Carey
as Livy
67
George Pravda
as Gershom
58
Isabel Dean
as Lollia
58
John Paul
as Agrippa
55
Kevin Stoney
as Thrasyllus
55
Bernard Hepton
as Pallas
50
Lyndon Brook
as Silanus
50
John Bennett
as Xenophon
48
Norman Rossington
as Sergeant
47
George Baker
as Tiberius
45
Siân Phillips
as Livia
43
Peter Bowles
as Caractacus
39
George Innes
as Quintus Justus
38
John Hurt
as Caligula
36
John Castle
as Postumus
36
Angela Morant
as Octavia
35
Patricia Quinn
as Livilla
32
Fiona Walker
as Agrippina
32
Jim Carter
as Roman Senate Senator (uncredited)
28
Simon MacCorkindale
as Lucius
24
Christopher Guard
as Marcellus
22
Nicholas Willatt
as Courier
Unknown
Earl Rhodes
as Gaius
Unknown
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