Director
Peter Jones
DIRECTOR
Simon Langton
John Glenister
Denis Postle
Stars (in credits order)
Frank Gillard
Narrated by
Arthur Lowe
Louis Pasteur
James Grout
Robert Koch
Patricia Heneghan
Emmy Koch
Frank Gatliff
Virchow
Milo O'Shea
Paul Erlich
Charles Kay
Roux
Antonia Pemberton
Marie Pasteur
Keith Drinkel
Loir
Geoffrey Lumsden
Vulpian
Michael Godfrey
French Academician
Robert Arnold
Braun
David Swift
Behring
Robert Lang
Semmelweis
Michael Gough
Sir Almroth Wright
David Garfield
Hebra
John Normington
Grancher
Clifford Rose
Herxheimer
Leonard Maguire
Rokitansky
Vernon Dobtcheff
Bertheim
Michael Griffiths
Chamberland
Geoffrey Toone
Von Gossler
Wolfe Morris
Skoda
Benjamin Whitrow
Douglas
Jacob Witkin
Metchnikoff
Richard Kane
Raulin
John Gill
Klein
Nigel Lambert
Marcusovsky
Donald Eccles
Biot
Charles Morgan
Bergmann
Robert Mill
Leishman
Aubrey Richards
Peter
Sandra Payne
Marie Semmelweis
Stanley Lebor
Kadereit
David Nettheim
Deville
Ioan Meredith
Thuillier
Cheryl Murray
Hedwig Freiburg
Jack Woolgar
Wassman
Donald Bisset
Hildenbrand
Michael Poole
Cohn
David Troughton
Viala
Geoffrey Wincott
Surgeon
Geoffrey Russell
Cohnheim
Peter Wickham
Libbertz
Anna Wing
Senior Midwife
Kristopher Kum
Hata
Susan Tebbs
Olga Metchnikoff
Leon Sinden
Rossignol
Ronald Eng
Kitasato
Jacki Harding
Junior Midwife
Bill Gavin
Brouardel
Alan Cullen
Colin
David Butler
Hotel Doctor
Tom Macaulay
Colonel
Michael Sheard
Loeffler
Stephen MacKenna
Young Bigo
Roger Hume
Judge
Alastair Hunter
Factory Manager
Elaine Baillie
Mme Pelletier
Lois Hantz
Street-Birth Patient
Desmond Perry
Dr. Godelier
Julian Fox
Counsel
Jane Walker
Woman Patient
Janet Pate
Hysterical Patient
Nicola Cave
Louise Pelletier
Tim Meats
Breck
Frederick Farley
Kruss
Delia Paton
Mme Meister
Alan Foss
Chairman
Vanessa Paine
Gertrude Koch
Anita Finch
Margaret Ashcroft
Martha Marquardt
Jerold Wells
Malcolm Hayes
Farmer
Crispin Gillbard
Routh
Clive Florentine
Joseph Meister
Roy Wilson
Tuberculosis Patient
Ric Young
Shiga
Ivor Roberts
Vone
Roger Milner
Doctor
John Rapley
Hotel Porter
Rodney Cardiff
Skin Disease Patient
Rosamund Greenwood
Frau Speyer
Neville Barber
Clemenceau
Stanley Platts
Butcher
Christopher Muncke
Schmidtz
Peter Schofield
Reveillac
Celia Quicke
Prostitute
Ben Woodgate
Dog Handler
Harry Hankin
Porter
Kenneth Scott
Orderly
Steve Gardner
Fleming
Betty Baskcomb
Sister(uncredited)
Joyce Windsor
Nurse(uncredited)
Peter Wear
Officer(uncredited)
Paul Phillips
Patient(uncredited)
Walter Goodman
Commissioner(uncredited)
Ronald Markham
Citizen(uncredited)
Reg Turner
Charlie Gray
Beryl Nesbitt
Maternity nurse(uncredited)
Alan Casley
McFee(uncredited)
David Billa
Student(uncredited)
Henry Rayner
Steve Ismay
John Timberlake
Morgue porter(uncredited)
Elizabeth McKewen
Brian Nolan
Constance Carling
Stuart Myers
George Ballantine
Elaine Banham
David J. Grahame
Len Keyes
Roy Brent
Pathology assistant(uncredited)
Candyce Jane Brandl
Brychan Powell
Surgery assistant(uncredited)
Lorence Ferdinand
Gary Dean
Pamela Wardel
Timothy Blackstone
Gerry Alexander
Leonie Jessel
Terrance Denville
Pathology Assistant(uncredited)
Nelly Griffiths
Brian Moorehead
Gillian Phelps
Jacqueline Blackmore
Johnnie Clayton
Benjamin Shulman
Colin Cunningham
Von Tandler(uncredited)
Martin Grant
Dennis Plenty
State policeman(uncredited)
Victor Croxford
John Dolan
Michael Raghan
Joseph Pasteur(uncredited)
Sylvia Holmes
Luis Sanchez
Francis Batsoni
St. Rochus Surgeon(uncredited)
Vivien Clifford
Neville Ware
Cecil Lloyd
Priest(uncredited)
Alan Clements
Giles Melville
Nigel Winder
Sylvia Delamere
Lynne Melly
Katie Evans
Noel Flanagan
Janet Wantling
Coralie Wilson
Fred Hadley
David Cleeve
Christine Cole
Leslie Bryant
Karrie Lambert
Robert Watson
Margaret Tomlinson
Caroline Finberg
Jack Dagmar
Helene Kotchie
Sean Landale
Victor Dear
Fiona Large
Scarlet James
Clinton Morris
Beth McCready
Louise Barclay
Rex Diamond
Terry Francis
Nick Thompson Hill
Shirley Patterson
Peter Rye
Simon Kane
Ken Randle
Tony Woolley
John Denton
Ralph Katterns
Lithotomy patient(uncredited)
David Pyke
Geoffrey Brighty
June Hammond
Louis Chalmers
Henry Krein
Accordion Player(uncredited)
Sarah Simmons
Clive Rogers
Peter Dukes
Rita Madden
Lianne Gilmore
Al Fiorgal
Rita Russell
Sue Ann Manners
Constance Reason
John Smart
Ken Lacey
Undertaker(uncredited)
Kenny Whymark
Beer cellar waiter(uncredited)
Phil Speary
Dennis Marlowe
Eric White
Glassblower(uncredited)
Rosita Mee
Annetta Bell