The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

Duration: 90 min

Release date: 1970-07-02

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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.

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The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

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Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins

as Charles Dickens

Sybil Thorndike

Sybil Thorndike

as Elizabeth Ball Dickens

as Maria Beadnell

Stanley Holloway

Stanley Holloway

Michael Wilding

Michael Wilding

Mona Washbourne

Mona Washbourne

as The Narrator (voice)

as John Dickens

as Mrs. Dickens

as Rosa Emma Drummond

as William Shaw

Patrick Cargill

Patrick Cargill

as Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan

Dorothy Reynolds

Dorothy Reynolds

as Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland

Gordon Rollings

Gordon Rollings

as Codlin/Mould/Ramsay

as Lammert/Whitmore/John Black

as Georgina Hogarth

Jocelyn Britton

Jocelyn Britton

as Kate Dickens (as Jocelyn Birdsall)

Gregory Phillips

Gregory Phillips

Roland Pickering

Roland Pickering

as Charles Dickens (as a child)

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