Micro Men (2009)
1h 24m
Running Time
October 8, 2009Release Date
Micro Men (2009)
1h 24m
Running Time
October 8, 2009Release Date
Network & Production Companies



Plot.
In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry, in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students, set up his own, rival firm to Sinclair Radionics, Acorn. Acorn beat Sinclair to a lucrative contract supplying the BBC with machines for a computer series. From here on it is a battle for supremacy to gain the upper hand in the domestic market.
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Cast & Crew.

Alexander Armstrong
Clive Sinclair

Martin Freeman
Chris Curry

Edward Baker-Duly
Hermann Hauser

Sam Phillips
Steve Furber

Peter Davison
Bank manager

Derek Riddell
Nigel Searle

Stefan Buttler
Roger Wilson

James Fleet
Kenneth Baker

Theo Barklem-Biggs
Sinclair journalist

Tim Downie
Tony Wood Rogers

Stefan Butler
Roger Wilson

Colin Michael Carmichael
Jim Westwood

Rhona Croker
Valerie

Amy Beth Hayes
Cynthia

Andrea Cornwell
Producer

Nicola Harrison
Ann Sinclair

Anthony Smee
Norman Hewett

Michael Keating
Derek Holley

Jon Glover
John Radcliffe

Ian Davies
Editor

Renny Krupinski
Foreman

Catherine Willis
CastingDirector

James Garnon
Acorn Journalist

Chris Roope
ProductionDesigner

Rasmus Hardiker
Shop Assistant Luke

Alison Dowling
Shopper

Perdita Avery
Susan

Elizabeth Bower
Mindy

Sir Clive Sinclair
Self (archive footage)

Lord Alan Sugar
Self

James Corker
Cambridge Graduate (uncredited)

Jason Fitzpatrick
David Johnson-Davies (uncredited)

David Mahoney
Clapper Loader - Sinclair QL Commercial (Nicht genannt)

Mark Mansfield
Rick Dickinson (uncredited)

Rob Mcloughlin
Nick Toop (uncredited)

Cal O'Connell
Reporter (uncredited)

Sophie Wilson
Pub Landlady (uncredited)

Saul Metzstein
Director

Tony Saint
Writer

Ilan Eshkeri
Original Music Composer
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
video game
biography
computer
1980s
Wiki.
Micro Men is a 2009 one-off BBC drama television programme set in the late 1970s and the early-mid 1980s, about the rise of the British home computer market and the early fortunes of Sinclair and Acorn Computers. It focuses on the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair (played by Alexander Armstrong), who developed the ZX Spectrum, and Chris Curry (played by Martin Freeman), the man behind the BBC Micro.
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