The Fool

1990

2h 20m

7.0(2 votes)

Drama

Overview

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.

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182 members

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Derek Jacobi

Mr. Frederick / Sir John

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Paul Brooke

Lord Paramount

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Julian Firth

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John Tams

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Ian Targett

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Paddy Ward

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Jo Warne

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Chris Whittingham

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Rory Murray

Henry Ottaway

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Corin Redgrave

Sir Thomas Neathouse

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Sally Ashby

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Brenda Bruce

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Cindy Oswin

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Bernard Padden

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Emma Piper

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John Warner

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Roger Hammond

Augustus Roddick

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Alec Wallis

Marquess

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Marty Cruikshank

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Cordelia Ditton

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Susan Field

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Graham Seed

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Stanley Lloyd

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Hilary Sesta

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Murray Melvin

Jeremy Ruttle

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Jonathan Cecil

Sir Martin Locket

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John Atkinson

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Una Brandon-Jones

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James Greene

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Zoe Hicks

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Brian Poyser

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Norman Lumsden

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Richard Clifford

George Locket

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Bill Wallis

Henry Beauchamp-Harper

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Rosalind Adler

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Rex Doyle

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Reginald Jessup

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Christine Pilgrim

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Joanna Maude

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Amanda Wenban

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Hugh Lloyd

Viscount

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Frederick Treves

Samuel Simpson

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Ben Aris

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Gregory Floy

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Howard Goorney

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Christopher Good

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Petra Markham

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Ian Lindsay

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Irina Brook

Georgiana Shillibeer

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Sarah Flind

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Penny Bunton

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Julian Bleach

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Jean Murphy

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Fiona McAlpine

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Anne Romyn

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Ann-Marie Gwatkin

Emily

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James Cosmo

Mr. Bowring

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Terence Conoley

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James Coyle

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Stephen Daltry

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Kit Jackson

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Giles Oldershaw

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David Trevena

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Miriam Margolyes

Mrs. Bowring

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Philip McGough

Mr. Croker

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Iain Andrew

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Mara Purcell

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Eric Francis

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Jack Gittings

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Bill Stewart

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Peter Wyatt

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Ian Gelder

Henry Gibbs

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Joan Sims

Lady Daphne

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Beth Ellis

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Janet Henfrey

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Merelina Kendall

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Charmian May

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Madeleine Moffat

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Phillada Sewell

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Dilys Hamlett

Lady Emma

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Maria Aitken

Lady Amelia

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Laura Cox

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Sally Faulkner

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Tamsin Heatley

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Darlene Johnson

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Kristin Milward

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Jane Wymark

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Auriol Smith

Lady Augusta

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Stratford Johns

Arthur Shillibeer

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Leon Davis

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James Grant

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Richard Graydon

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Bruce Green

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Patricia Napier

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Peter Stockbridge

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Richard Caldicot

Duke

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Patricia Hayes

The Dowager Duchess

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Ruth Mitchell

The Girl

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Jim Carter

Mr. Blackthorn

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Arthur Kelly

Grease remover seller

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Tony Frey

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Irene Frederick

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Siobhan Nicholas

Chickweed seller

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Robin Meredith

Crossing sweep

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Miranda Richardson

Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia

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Joanna Brookes

Stage actress

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Nora Connolly

Stage actress

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John Dalby

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Ron Emslie

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Knight Mantell

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Mark Arnold

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Michael Feast

Mr. Edwin

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Michael Hordern

Mr. Tatham

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Peter Bailie

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Jan Lower

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Pamela Moiseiwitsch

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John Moore

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Malcolm Mudie

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Simon Slater

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John McEnery

Mr. Maclean

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Don Henderson

Bob

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Michael Andrew

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Graham Fletcher-Cook

Whistling Billy

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David Grahame

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Kenneth McClellan

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John Tordoff

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Robert Terson

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Nick Edmett

Grease buyer

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Michael Medwin

Mr. Wells

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Raymond Brody

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Ronnie Brody

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Alan Ford

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Mark Lambert

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Stewart Permutt

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Peter Waddington

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Maria Charles

The Pure Gatherer

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Rosalie Crutchley

Mrs. Harris

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Ewen Bremner

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Ron Cook

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Christopher Hancock

Joe

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Jessica James

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Linda Kerr Scott

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David Sterne

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Preston Lockwood

Mr. Benjamin

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James Cairncross

Mr. Trott

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Maurice Elliot

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Richard Henry

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John Fahey

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David Glover

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Robert Putt

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David Pugh

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John Harding

Mr. Priddle

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Chris Darwin

Theatre doorman

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Christine Ellerbeck

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Harry Jones

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Colleen McClure

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John Tramper

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Nicholas Tennant

Curley

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Charlie Bartle

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Fred Beauman

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Stephen Boyes

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Johnnie Clayton

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David Keyes

Tom

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Dominic Geary

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Philip Gunderson

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Ray Martin

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Terry John

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Arthur Nightingale

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Harry Klein

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George Savvides

Mr. Nick

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John Quarmby

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Harry Webster

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Dawn Charatan

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Joan Dainty

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Deddie Davies

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Mark Knox

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Dominic Martinez

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Stephen Rashbrook

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Vince Starr

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Paul Wilce

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Michael Mears

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Cyril Cusack

The Ballad Seller

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