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David
Copperfield
adapted
from the novel by Charles Dickens; screenplay by Adrian
Hodges
A
BBC Television production, in association with WGBH/Boston.
First broadcast on BBC 1, 25th December 1999.
Director: Simon Curtis
Producer: Kate Harwood
Executive Producers: Jane Tranter and Rebecca
Eaton
Associate Producer: Katrine Dudley
Cinematography: Andy Collins
Production Designer: Roger Cann
Costume Designer: Mike O'Neill
Original Music: Robert Lane
Running time: 179 mins
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Cast
(main
characters, in
alphabetical order) |
Alun Armstrong.....Daniel
Peggotty
Patsy Byrne.....Mrs Gummidge
Michael Elphick.....Barkis
Trevor Eve.....Mr Murdstone
Oliver Ford Davies.....Mr Wickfield
Emilia Fox.....Clara Copperfield
Laura Harling.....Little Emily
Bob Hoskins.....Mr Micawber
Harry Lloyd.....Young Steerforth
Cherie Lunghi.....Mrs Steerforth
Nicholas Lyndhurst.....Uriah Heep
Aislín McGuckin.....Emily
Ian McKellen.....Creakle
Emily McKenzie.....Janet
Ciarán McMenamin.....David Copperfield
Ian McNeice.....Mr Dick
Oliver Milburn.....Steerforth
John Normington.....Dr Chillip
Pauline Quirke.....Peggotty
Daniel Radcliffe.....Young David Copperfield
Amanda Ryan.....Agnes Wickfield
Maggie Smith.....Betsey Trotwood
Imelda Staunton.....Mrs Micawber
James Thornton.....Ham Peggotty
Zoë Wanamaker.....Miss Jane Murdstone
Tom Wilkinson.....Narrator (voice) |
Production |
| With a
multi-million pound budget and star-studded cast, this
television adaptation of Dickens's classic novel was the
centrepiece in the BBC's Christmas schedule for 1999.
Charting the title character's rites of passage from boy to man,
David Copperfield introduces a host of comic and sinister
characters. Miss Murdstone, played by Zoe, certainly falls
into the latter category. When she and her brother begin
terrorising the Copperfields, how will young David fare?
Zoe appears in the first of the two episodes in this
well-received dramatisation. |
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