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Theatre 625: The World of George Orwell: 1984 (1965)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 28 December 1965
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CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Cedric Messina

SCRIPT
Script: Nigel Kneale
Novel: George Orwell

DIRECTION
Director: Christopher Morahan

MUSIC
Music: Wilfred Josephs

DIRECTION AND SET DESIGNER
Designer: Tony Abbott

CAST
David Buck (Winston Smith)
Joseph O'Conor (O'Brien)
Jane Merrow (Julia)
Cyril Shaps (Syme)
Tony Cyrus (soldier)
Mohammed Shamsi (Arab colonel)
Alexis Chesnakov (Russian marshall)
Hugo de Vernier (French general)
John Brandon (American general)
Tom Macauley (British general)
Brian Badcoe, Raymond Mason (telescreen announcers)
Vernon Dobtcheff (Goldstein)
Marjorie Gresley (prole in canteen)
Norman Chappell (Parsons)
Sally Lahee (Mrs Parsons)
Sally Thomsett (Parsons girl)
Frank Summerscales (Parsons boy)
Henry Kay (pedlar)
Eric Francis (blind man)
Anthony Blackshaw, Edwin Brown (proles)
Sydney Arnold (old man)
John Lyons, David Baxter, Patrick Ellis (prole youths)
Fred Hugh (barman)
John Garrie (Charrington)
John Barrett (waiter)
John Mincer (Jones)
Eden Fox (Aaronson)
George Wilder (Rutherford)
Peter Bathurst (Foster)
Julie May (singing prole woman)
John Moore (orator)
Paul Phillips (Martin)
Raymond Graham (man with bread)
William Lloyd Brown (thin man)
Norman Scace, David Grey, John Abineri, Michael Sheard (men in white coats)

LINKS

SEE ALSO
1984 (1954)
1984 (1956)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
1984: A Personal View of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four (1983)

KEYWORDS

book into film, the future, totalitarianism

 


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