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Troilus and Cressida (Original title)
Date: 07 November 1981 (Television)

Countries: United Kingdom, USA

Director: Jonathan Miller

Synopsis: Television production of Shakespeare's play

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TV Transmissions
Date: 07 November 1981Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 20:40-23:40Runtime: 190 mins Network - Colour - Sound

Credits (10)
Production Company: BBC TV, Production Company: Time-Life Television, Production Company: BBC, Producer: Jonathan Miller, Script Editor: David Snodin, Author of the Original Work: William Shakespeare, Designer: Colin Lwrey, Music: Stephen Oliver, Sound: Derek Miller-Timmins
Cast (26)
Anton Lesser (Troilus), Suzanne Burden (Cressida), Charles Gray (Pandarus), Kenneth Haigh (Achilles), Tony Steedman (Aeneas), Geoffrey Chater (Nestor), Esmond Knight (Priam), Max Harvey (Alexander), Peter Walmsley (Servant to Troilus), Vernon Dobtcheff (Agamemnon), Benjamin Whitrow (Ulysees), Anthony Pedley (Ajax), Bernard Brown (Menelaus), Orlando (Thersites), Simon Cutter (Patroclus), John Shrapnel (Hector), Elayne Sharling (Cassandra), David Firth (Paris), Paul Moriarty (Diomedes), Ann Pennington (Helen), Peter Whitbread (Calchas), Merelina Kendall (Andromache), Cornelius Garrett (Margarelon), Tony Portacio (Helenus), Peter J. Cassell (Deiphobus), David Kinsey (Servant to Paris)