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.

Oliver MacGreevy

Richard Caldicot
Nicholas Whiteoak

George Woodbridge
Gardener

Brian Rix
Basil Gilbert

John Vere
Menelaus

Larry Noble
Briggs

Rudolph Cartier
Director

Casper Wrede
Director

William Shakespeare
Theatre Play

Peter Ustinov
Writer

Clemence Dane
Adaptation

Edmond Rostand
Original Story

W.P. Lipscomb
Writer

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

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

Paul Rogers
Henry VIII

Marius Goring
Chorus / Robert Clive / Tommy Savidge / Crystof Wolters / Archbishop Thomas Cranmer / Richard Brinsley Sheridan / Genera...

Patrick Troughton
Cardinal Wolsey

Jeanette Sterke
Margaret Maskelyne / Anne Boleyn / 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

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

Ian Collin
French Attaché

Charles Hodgson
Tiburce de Lorget

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

Robert Raglan
2nd Stranger

Patrick Macnee
Lodovico / Rolf Hornblower / Captain Marchant / Peter / Captain Peter Niles

Donald Pleasence
Corporal / Syme

Arthur Lowe
Albert Davies

Desmond Llewelyn
Pandimiglio

Michael Aldridge
Sir Edward Fortrose

Pamela Brown
Jennet Jourdemayne

Margaretta Scott
Lady Marguerite Blakeney / Emilia / Olivia Geiss / Empress Elizabeth / Catherine of Aragon

Nora Nicholson
Margaret Devize

Richard Pearson
John Wood

Ballard Berkeley
Bentley

Peter Bull
Smith / Edward Tappercoom / George Ware / Tommy / Circus Director / Sid Rolands / Joseph Sedley

Erik Chitty
Mr. Blinkard / Justice Shallow / Old soak

Tony Britton
Albert Landier / Romeo / HRH George, Prince of Wales

John G. Heller
The Tenor

Peter O'Toole
Rene Latour

Ursula Howells
Mary Winsloe

Robert Brown
Benjamin Lassies

Laurence Harvey
Orlando / Cassio

Robin Bailey
Lieut -Colonel

Richard Davies
Second sentry

Patrick Jordan
First sentry

Rupert Davies
Alec Roper / Mr. Page / Thompson / Day-watchman / Wing Commander / Oderbruch / Maurice Szeps / Frontier guard / Gabriel ...

Roger Delgado
Mark Smeaton

Andrew Cruickshank
Baron Molde / Nigel

Anthony Dawson
Archduke Johann Salvator

Keith Michell
Crown Prince Rudolf

John Fraser
Troilus / Lieutenant Michael Wainwright, RN

Ewen Solon
Joannides

Sean Connery
Mountain McClintock

Michael Caine
Fighter

John Pike
Boy

Timothy Bateson
Calchas / Alexander / Calchas / Val

Nigel Davenport
Jackson

Terence Alexander
Tom Williams / Percy Courtney

Robert Hardy
Orsino / etus / William Herndon

Patrick Barr
Marcus Brutus

Peter Wyngarde
Sylvius / Prokesch / Charles Granillo

Michael Brennan
Captain of the Guard / Ajax / Casca / Charles / Peter / Sergeant Hooper / Jake Middleton / Johnny Huff / Korrianke / Ser...

Michael Golden
Wimberber / O'Brien

Alan Wheatley
Roderigo / Rupert Cadell

Faith Brook
Caroline Sophia

Harold Kasket
4th Plebeian / Fourth Plebeian

William Squire
Hector

Mervyn Johns
Samuel Pepys

Douglas Wilmer
Chauvelin / Baron Pflungk

Virginia McKenna
Juliet

Colin Douglas
Tom Grimthorpe / Captain Priestman / Sampson

David Horne
Capulet

John Phillips
Escales / Chorus

Clive Revill
Citizen / Geoffrey Kenyon

Michael Hordern
Jacques / Shylock / General Parmenion / Trigorin / Epilogue spoken by (voice) / Christopher Williams / Rev. James Mavor ...

André Maranne
Croupier

John Schlesinger
Amiens / An innkeeper

Barry Jones
Henry Aspen

Geoffrey Keen
Konstantin Treplyov

Barry Foster
Supply Assistant Brooker / Trooper Bates

Laurence Hardy
A watchman / Peter Dirk-Smith

John Arnatt
Ninian Edwards

Harry Andrews
Lt. Geza von Mattachich

Robert Cawdron
Detective Sergeant Clarke

Laurence Naismith
Arthur Lawton

Kenneth Cope
Leading Telegraphist Marshall / Robert Nason

Wolfe Morris
A waiter

Ian Hendry
Leading Seaman Dembury

Peter Cellier
De Grignon

William Russell
Bill Bolton / Renny / Vicomte de Tournai

Willoughby Goddard
Jellyband

Ronald Howard
Sir Andrew Ffoulkes

Robert Shaw
Herbert

Gerard Heinz
Tausch / Red Cross Commissioner / Achille Weber / Alexis Mouranoff / Dr. Justinus van Galen / Poet

Alec McCowen
Quillary

Jack May
David Gottlieb

Jeffrey Segal
Corporal Albert Pym

Richard Shaw
Lieutenant

Richard Vernon
Egeon

Joan Plowright
Phoebe / Adriana
Details.
Release Date
January 1, 1950
Status
Returning Series
Seasons
10
Episodes
73
Genres
Last updated:
This TV Show Is About.
Scripted
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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