British television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jenny Agutter and Arthur Lowe. Hopkins performance as Dickens saw him nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1971.
as Charles Dickens
as Elizabeth Ball Dickens
as Mrs. Ternan
as Maria Beadnell
as Mr. Vuffin
as Dolby
as Mrs. Jarley
as The Narrator (voice)
as John Dickens
as Mrs. Dickens
as Rosa Emma Drummond
as Mrs. Gamp
as William Shaw
as Macready
as Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan
as Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland
as Codlin/Mould/Ramsay
as Lammert/Whitmore/John Black
as Georgina Hogarth
as Mr. Ellis
as Kate Dickens (as Jocelyn Birdsall)
as Smike
as Charles Dickens (as a child)
