Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
Appearance
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 India. Originally it was planned few parts will be shot in Sri Lanka. But due to Sri Lankan civil war there, it was revised.
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
Categories:
- 1980s British drama television series
- ITV television dramas
- 1986 British television series debuts
- 1986 British television series endings
- Films shot in Sri Lanka
- Television shows set in India
- Television shows set in England
- Television shows set in the British Raj
- Cultural depictions of George VI
- Cultural depictions of Jawaharlal Nehru
- Cultural depictions of Mahatma Gandhi
- Cultural depictions of Indira Gandhi
- Cultural depictions of Winston Churchill
- Cultural depictions of Lord Mountbatten
- Cultural depictions of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Cultural depictions of Vallabhbhai Patel
- Partition of India in fiction
- Works about the Mahatma Gandhi assassination
- Films directed by Tom Clegg (director)
- United Kingdom television show stubs