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.
Genres:

Derek Jacobi as Mr. Frederick / Sir John

Paul Brooke as Lord Paramount

Julian Firth as

John Tams as

Ian Targett as

Paddy Ward as

Jo Warne as

Chris Whittingham as

Rory Murray as Henry Ottaway

Corin Redgrave as Sir Thomas Neathouse

Sally Ashby as

Brenda Bruce as

Cindy Oswin as

Bernard Padden as

Emma Piper as

John Warner as

Roger Hammond as Augustus Roddick

Alec Wallis as Marquess

Marty Cruikshank as

Cordelia Ditton as

Susan Field as

Graham Seed as

Stanley Lloyd as

Hilary Sesta as

Murray Melvin as Jeremy Ruttle

Jonathan Cecil as Sir Martin Locket

John Atkinson as

Una Brandon-Jones as

James Greene as

Zoe Hicks as

Brian Poyser as

Norman Lumsden as

Richard Clifford as George Locket

Bill Wallis as Henry Beauchamp-Harper

Rosalind Adler as

Rex Doyle as

Reginald Jessup as

Christine Pilgrim as

Joanna Maude as

Amanda Wenban as

Hugh Lloyd as Viscount

Frederick Treves as Samuel Simpson

Ben Aris as

Gregory Floy as

Howard Goorney as

Christopher Good as

Petra Markham as

Ian Lindsay as

Irina Brook as Georgiana Shillibeer

Sarah Flind as

Penny Bunton as

Julian Bleach as

Jean Murphy as

Fiona McAlpine as

Anne Romyn as

Ann-Marie Gwatkin as Emily

James Cosmo as Mr. Bowring

Terence Conoley as

James Coyle as

Stephen Daltry as

Kit Jackson as

Giles Oldershaw as

David Trevena as

Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Bowring

Philip McGough as Mr. Croker

Iain Andrew as

Mara Purcell as

Eric Francis as

Jack Gittings as

Bill Stewart as

Peter Wyatt as

Ian Gelder as Henry Gibbs

Joan Sims as Lady Daphne

Beth Ellis as

Janet Henfrey as

Merelina Kendall as

Charmian May as

Madeleine Moffat as

Phillada Sewell as

Dilys Hamlett as Lady Emma

Maria Aitken as Lady Amelia

Laura Cox as

Sally Faulkner as

Tamsin Heatley as

Darlene Johnson as

Kristin Milward as

Jane Wymark as

Auriol Smith as Lady Augusta

Stratford Johns as Arthur Shillibeer

Leon Davis as

James Grant as

Richard Graydon as

Bruce Green as

Patricia Napier as

Peter Stockbridge as

Richard Caldicot as Duke

Patricia Hayes as The Dowager Duchess

Ruth Mitchell as The Girl

Jim Carter as Mr. Blackthorn

Arthur Kelly as Grease remover seller

Tony Frey as

Irene Frederick as

Siobhan Nicholas as Chickweed seller

Robin Meredith as Crossing sweep

Miranda Richardson as Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia

Joanna Brookes as Stage actress

Nora Connolly as Stage actress

John Dalby as Stage actor

Ron Emslie as Stage actor

Knight Mantell as Stage actor

Mark Arnold as Stage actor

Michael Feast as Mr. Edwin

Michael Hordern as Mr. Tatham

Peter Bailie as

Jan Lower as

Pamela Moiseiwitsch as

John Moore as

Malcolm Mudie as

Simon Slater as

John McEnery as Mr. Maclean

Don Henderson as Bob

Michael Andrew as

Graham Fletcher-Cook as Whistling Billy

David Grahame as

Kenneth McClellan as

John Tordoff as

Robert Terson as

Nick Edmett as Grease buyer

Michael Medwin as Mr. Wells

Raymond Brody as

Ronnie Brody as

Alan Ford as

Mark Lambert as

Stewart Permutt as

Peter Waddington as

Maria Charles as The Pure Gatherer

Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Harris

Ewen Bremner as

Ron Cook as

Christopher Hancock as Joe

Jessica James as

Linda Kerr Scott as

David Sterne as

Preston Lockwood as Mr. Benjamin

James Cairncross as Mr. Trott

Maurice Elliot as

Richard Henry as

John Fahey as

David Glover as

Robert Putt as

David Pugh as

John Harding as Mr. Priddle

Chris Darwin as Theatre doorman

Christine Ellerbeck as

Harry Jones as

Colleen McClure as

John Tramper as

Nicholas Tennant as Curley

Charlie Bartle as

Fred Beauman as

Stephen Boyes as

Johnnie Clayton as

David Keyes as Tom

Dominic Geary as

Philip Gunderson as

Ray Martin as

Terry John as

Arthur Nightingale as

Harry Klein as

George Savvides as Mr. Nick

John Quarmby as

Harry Webster as

Dawn Charatan as

Joan Dainty as

Deddie Davies as

Mark Knox as

Dominic Martinez as

Stephen Rashbrook as

Vince Starr as

Paul Wilce as

Michael Mears as

Cyril Cusack as The Ballad Seller
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