Director
David Giles
DIRECTOR
Stars (in credits order)
Tim Pigott-Smith
Hamer Shawcross
David Hayman
Arnold Ryerson
Joanna David
Ann Artingstall
Phyllida Law
Aunt Lizzie
Julia McKenzie
Pen Muff
Paola Dionisotti
Ellen Stansfield
George Costigan
Tom Hannaway
Steve Morley
Jimmy Newboult
Elizabeth Counsell
Lady Lettice
Sheila Reid
Mrs. Ryerson
Meredith Edwards
Idris
David Collings
Gordon Stansfield
Abigail McKern
Alice
Geoffrey Burridge
Charles
Annie Hulley
Hilda
Robert Flemyng
Lord Lostwithiel
Julia Sawalha
Amy Ryerson
John Bryans
Hawley Artingstall
William Whymper
Viscount Liskeard
Irene Sutcliffe
Lillian Artingstall
Gorden Kaye
Birley Artingstall
Alex Norton
Keir Hardie
Esmond Knight
Old Etchells
Robert Hartley
Returning officer
David Hanson
Richard Bebb
Cabinet Minister
Susan Edmonstone
Polly
Doel Luscombe
John Llewellyn
Young Hamer Shawcross
Novak Jovic
Charles as a boy
Paul Oldham
1st Boy
Caroline Harrington
Annie Kenney
Avis Bunnage
Mrs. Muff
Michael Le Vell
2nd Boy
Gordon Salkilld
Chairman
Brian Southwood
Reporter
Alan Collins
Will
Mitzi McKenzie
Customer
Derek Fuke
Vernon
John Flint
Gamekeeper
John Colclough
Andrew Davies
Young Arnold Ryerson
Andrew Dunford
Evan
Jeremy Hodson
1st Loafer
Susie Fairfax
Nell
Warren O'Neill
Frankie Ryerson
Hugh Morton
Pendleton
Louisa Livingstone
Girl in clinic
Kenneth Midwood
Doctor
Colin Sharp
2nd Loafer
Andrew Readman
3rd Loafer
Jean Channon
Woman in clinic
David Pinner
Anthony Douse
Richardson
Victoria Hardcastle
1st Factory woman
Elizabeth Stewart
Prison officer
Rita Lester
2nd Factory woman
Jode Griffiths
Alice as a child
Norman Mitchell
Policeman
Charles Pemberton
Constable
Reg Pritchard
Parry Powell
Alan Mason
Prison doctor
Angela Rooks
Wardress
Pamela Mant
Nurse
Steve Wilsher
Soldier (uncredited)