Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978)
November 6, 1978Release Date
Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978)
November 6, 1978Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Edward Fox
King Edward VIII
Cynthia Harris
Wallis Warfield Simpson
David Waller
Stanley Baldwin
Peggy Ashcroft
Queen Mary
Nigel Hawthorne
Walter Monkton
John Shrapnel
Major Alexander Hardinge
Andrew Ray
Duke of York
Jessie Matthews
Aunt Bessie Merryman
Charles Keating
Ernest Simpson
Peter Ellis
Osborne
Peter Ellis
Osborne
Amanda Reiss
Duchess of York
T.R. Bowen
Duff Cooper
Patricia Hodge
Lady Diana Cooper
Elsie Randolph
Lady Colefax
Gary Waldhorn
Chips Channon
Nuala Barrie
Queen Mary's Lady in Waiting
Rosanne Wickes
Princess Mary
Patrick Troughton
Clement Attlee
Wensley Pithey
Winston Churchill
Marius Goring
King George V
Maurice Denham
Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury
Edward Jewesbury
Lord Dawson
Simon Cadell
Maj. John Aird
Hugh Fraser
Anthony Eden
Robert Flemyng
Sir Donald Somervell
Gerald Sim
Theodore Goddard
Ed Devereaux
Lord Beaverbrook
Geoffrey Lumsden
Geoffrey Dawson
William Hoyland
Lord Perry Brownlow
Michael Stroud
Esmond Harmsworth
Kika Markham
Freda Dudley Ward
Cherie Lunghi
Lady Thelma Furness
Jeremy Child
Piers Leigh
Caroline Embling
Angie
Bessie Love
Lady Cunard
Allan Cameron
Production Design
Joyce Gallie
Casting
Waris Hussein
Director
Ron Grainer
Music
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Edward & Mrs. Simpson is a seven-part British television series that dramatises the events leading to the 1936 abdication of King Edward VIII, who gave up his throne to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson.
The series, made by Thames Television for ITV, was originally broadcast in 1978. Edward Fox played Edward, and Cynthia Harris portrayed Mrs. Simpson. The series was scripted by Simon Raven, based on Fox's maternal aunt Frances Donaldson's biography of the King, Edward VIII. It was produced by Andrew Brown, overseen by the Head of Drama at Thames Television Verity Lambert and directed by Waris Hussein. The incidental music was by Ron Grainer.
The series, broadcast in the US in 1979 as instalments of the nationally syndicated Mobil Showcase Network, won the 1980 Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series, and BAFTA Awards in 1979 for Best Actor, Best Design, Best Costume Design, and Best Series or Serial. It has been released on DVD in Region 2 (UK) by Network, and in Region 1 (United States) by A&E.