The Fool (1990)
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Cast & Crew
Derek Jacobi
Mr. Frederick / Sir John
Paul Brooke
Lord Paramount
Julian Firth
John Tams
Corin Redgrave
Sir Thomas Neathouse
Brenda Bruce
John Warner
Roger Hammond
Augustus Roddick
Marty Cruikshank
Murray Melvin
Jeremy Ruttle
Jonathan Cecil
Sir Martin Locket
Una Brandon-Jones
Norman Lumsden
Richard Clifford
George Locket
Bill Wallis
Henry Beauchamp-Harper
Rosalind Adler
Hugh Lloyd
Viscount
Gregory Floy
Howard Goorney
Christopher Good
Petra Markham
Ian Lindsay
Irina Brook
Georgiana Shillibeer
Sarah Flind
Julian Bleach
James Cosmo
Mr. Bowring
Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Bowring
Philip McGough
Mr. Croker
Bill Stewart
Ian Gelder
Henry Gibbs
Joan Sims
Lady Daphne
Janet Henfrey
Dilys Hamlett
Lady Emma
Maria Aitken
Lady Amelia
Sally Faulkner
Darlene Johnson
Jane Wymark
Stratford Johns
Arthur Shillibeer
Richard Graydon
Richard Caldicot
Duke
Patricia Hayes
The Dowager Duchess
Jim Carter
Mr. Blackthorn
Miranda Richardson
Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia
Joanna Brookes
Stage actress
Nora Connolly
Stage actress
Mark Arnold
Stage actor
Michael Feast
Mr. Edwin
Michael Hordern
Mr. Tatham
John McEnery
Mr. Maclean
Don Henderson
Bob
Michael Andrew
John Tordoff
Michael Medwin
Mr. Wells
Ronnie Brody
Alan Ford
Mark Lambert
Maria Charles
The Pure Gatherer
Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Harris
Ewen Bremner
Ron Cook
Jessica James
Linda Kerr Scott
David Sterne
Robert Putt
David Pugh
Christine Ellerbeck
Nicholas Tennant
Curley
David Keyes
Tom
George Savvides
Mr. Nick
John Quarmby
Stephen Rashbrook
Michael Mears
Cyril Cusack
The Ballad Seller
Christine Edzard
Director
Christine Edzard, Olivier Stockman
Writer
Richard Goodwin, Christine Edzard
Producer
