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
Maj. Alexander Hardinge

Andrew Ray
Duke of York

Jessie Matthews
Aunt Bessie Merryman

Charles Keating
Ernest Simpson

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

Waris Hussein
Director

Simon Raven
Writer

Frances Donaldson
Writer

David Graham
Casting

Ron Grainer
Music

Martyn Hebert
Production Design

Beryl Wilkins
Editor

Joyce Gallie
Casting

Allan Cameron
Production Design

Diane Thurley
Costume Design

Sally Thorpe
Makeup Artist

Angela Seyfang
Makeup Artist

Jennie Tate
Costume Design
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.
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