Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy | |
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Genre | Historical drama |
Written by | David Butler Alan Campbell-Johnson |
Directed by | Tom Clegg |
Starring | Nicol Williamson Janet Suzman |
Composer | John Scott |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 6 episodes |
Production | |
Producer | Judith de Paul |
Running time | 50 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | January 26 March 2, 1986 | –
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy is a British television series which first aired on ITV in 1986. It depicts Lord Mountbatten's time as Supreme Commander, South-East Asia in the Second World War, and then as Viceroy of India shortly after the war in the days leading up to Indian independence.[1] The Film was shot in Sri Lanka.
Main cast
[edit]- Nicol Williamson ... Lord Louis Mountbatten
- Janet Suzman ... Edwina Mountbatten
- Dreya Weber ... Pamela Mountbatten
- Wendy Hiller ... Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
- A.K. Hangal ... Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- Owen Holder ... King George VI
- David Lyon ... Lt Col Vernon Erskine-Crum
- Patrick Allen ... Claude Auchinleck
- Michael Byrne ... George Abell
- Sam Dastor ... Mahatma Gandhi
- Derek Reed ... Patrick Spens
- Nigel Davenport ... Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
- David Quilter ... Alan Campbell Johnson
- Ian Richardson ... Jawaharlal Nehru
- Nadim Sawalha ... Liaquat Ali Khan
- Tony Wredden ... Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- Saloni Kaur ... Indira Gandhi (née Nehru)
- Sumant Mastakar ... C. Rajagopalachari
- Nitin Sethi ... Rajendra Prasad
- John Rolfe ... Clement Attlee
- Zia Mohyeddin ... V. P. Menon
- Vladek Sheybal ... Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Jeremy Sinden ... Ronald Brockman
- Nana Patekar ...Nathuram Godse
- Malcolm Terris ... Winston Churchill
- Minnie Boga ... Amrit Kaur
- Roger Hammond ... Cyril Radcliffe
- Sushma Seth ... Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- Villoo Kapadia ... Fatima Jinnah
See also
[edit]References
[edit]External links
[edit]Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy at IMDb