To Serve Them All My Days (1980)

The BBC's classic story of an English schoolmaster's life of tragedy and triumph between the wars

After barely surviving the trenches of World War I, an embittered young soldier takes a teaching post at Bamfylde, an elite boarding school in the uplands of West Devon. It is an unlikely job for a Welsh miner's son without a degree, but David Powlett-Jones (John Duttine) proves to be a rare schoolmaster, as passionate about learning as he is about teaching. Through two tumultuous decades, Powlett-Jones inspires his students with his courage and idealism, qualities that help prepare him to send another generation of young men off to fight yet another war.

To Serve Them All My Days

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Frank Middlemass

Frank Middlemass

as Algy Herries

Jonathan Duttine

Jonathan Duttine

as David Powlett-Jones

as Christine Forster

Alan MacNaughtan

Alan MacNaughtan

Patricia Lawrence

Patricia Lawrence

as Ellie Herries

as Sir Rufus Creighton

as Alderman Blunt

as Brigadier Cooper

Nicholas Lyndhurst

Nicholas Lyndhurst

as Boy (uncredited)

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