Sunday Night Theatre (1950)
Sunday Night Theatre (1950)
Plot.
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959.
The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
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Cast & Crew.
Richard Caldicot
Nicholas Whiteoak
George Woodbridge
Gardener
Brian Rix
Basil Gilbert
John Vere
Menelaus
Patrick Barr
Earl of Northumberland
Larry Noble
Briggs
Rudolph Cartier
Director
Casper Wrede
Director
W.P. Lipscomb
Writer
Edmond Rostand
Original Story
Clemence Dane
Adaptation
William Shakespeare
Theatre Play
Peter Cushing
Winston Smith
Yvonne Mitchell
Julia Dixon
Arnold Diamond
Emmanuel Goldstein
Hilda Fenemore
Mrs. Parsons
Keith Davis
Parsons Boy
Wilfrid Brambell
Old Man / Thin Prisoner
Sydney Bromley
Waiter
André Morell
O'Brien
Donald Pleasence
Syme
Campbell Gray
Parsons
Pamela Grant
Parsons Girl
Janet Barrow
Woman Supervisor
Leonard Sachs
Mr. Charrington
Jill Balcon
Ann Harlow
John Laurie
Allen Campbell
Clement McCallin
King Henry V
Marius Goring
Chorus / Robert Clive / Archbishop Thomas Cranmer / Crystof Wolters / Tommy Savidge / Hjalmar Ekdal / General Harras / R...
Paul Rogers
Henry VIII
Patrick Troughton
Cardinal Wolsey
Jeanette Sterke
Anne Boleyn / Margaret Maskelyne / Maria Fitzherbert
Lucie Mannheim
Queen Charlotte
Annette Carell
Princess Caroline of Brunswick
Nicholas Amer
Sebastian
Newton Blick
Sir Toby Belch
Graham Crowden
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
George Hall
Fabian
Dilys Hamlett
Viola
Robert Hardy
Orsino
James Maxwell
Feste
John Moffatt
Malvolio
Priscilla Morgan
Maria
Maureen Quinney
Olivia
Arthur Skinner
Captain/Priest
David Terence
Valentine
Eric Thompson
Antonio
Paul Vieyra
Curio/Officer
Alex Whittaker
Hautboy
Milton Rosmer
Emperor Franz I
Eileen Peel
Marie-Louise
Martin Starkie
Duke Franz
André van Gyseghem
Chancellor Metternich
Wilfrid Lawson
Flambeau
William Devlin
General Hartmann
Henry Oscar
Count Sedlinsky
John Gabriel
Gentz
Raymond Young
Count Bombelles
Eric Messiter
Marmont
Margaretta Scott
Catherine of Aragon / Emilia / Empress Elizabeth / Olivia Geiss
Ian Collin
French Attaché
Peter Wyngarde
Prokesch
Charles Hodgson
Tiburce de Lorget
Tony Britton
HRH George, Prince of Wales / Albert Landier
Sheila Shand Gibbs
Thérèse de Lorget
Margot Van der Burgh
Countess Camarata
Peggy Simpson
Fanny Elssier
Maxine Audley
Archduchess
Conrad Phillips
Officer
MacGregor Urquhart
Old Peasant
Tutte Lemkow
Dancer
Laurence Harvey
Cassio
Alan Wheatley
Roderigo
Patrick Macnee
Captain Marchant / Rolf Hornblower / Captain Peter Niles / Lodovico / Peter
Robert Raglan
2nd Stranger
Timothy Bateson
Val
Arthur Lowe
Albert Davies
Desmond Llewelyn
Pandimiglio
Michael Aldridge
Sir Edward Fortrose
Pamela Brown
Jennet Jourdemayne
Andrew Cruickshank
Nigel
Nora Nicholson
Margaret Devize
Terence Alexander
Percy Courtney
Richard Pearson
John Wood
Ballard Berkeley
Bentley
Peter Bull
Tommy / George Ware / Circus Director / Edward Tappercoom / Smith / Joseph Sedley / Sid Rolands
Erik Chitty
Old soak / Mr. Blinkard / Justice Shallow
John G. Heller
The Tenor
John Fraser
Lieutenant Michael Wainwright, RN
Peter O'Toole
Rene Latour
Michael Golden
O'Brien
Ursula Howells
Mary Winsloe
Robert Brown
Benjamin Lassies
Robin Bailey
Lieut -Colonel
Richard Davies
Second sentry
Michael Brennan
Monsieur Thomas / Korrianke
Patrick Jordan
First sentry
Douglas Wilmer
Baron Pflungk
Rupert Davies
Frontier guard / Walters / Thomas Cromwell / Oderbruch / Maurice Szeps / Gabriel Mirabeau / Thompson / Wing Commander / ...
Roger Delgado
Mark Smeaton
Anthony Dawson
Archduke Johann Salvator
Michael Hordern
Epilogue spoken by (voice)
Keith Michell
Crown Prince Rudolf
Ewen Solon
Joannides
Details.
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Wiki.
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959.
The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Kneale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart (1952, 1956) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954). The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1969 and 1974.
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