The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1998)

Country of Origin: Ireland / USA
Dates of Original Broadcast: 19 April 1998
Number of Seasons: n/a
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times: 92 mins
Format:
Colour Format: colour
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Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Executive Producers: Gary Dartnall, Monica Foster, Robert Halmi Jr., Peter Shaw
Producer: Ted Swanson
Co-Producer: Morgan O'Sullivan
Line Producer: Paul Lowin
Assistant Production Manager Trainee: Anthony Furlong

SCRIPT
Script: Peter Buckman
Story Adaptation: Peter Shaw

DIRECTION
Directed by: John Schlesinger
First Assistant Director: Martin O'Malley
Second Assistant Director: Marian Barlow
Third Assistant Director: Tanya Cawley
Assistant Director: Jim Gorman
Script Supervisor: Tasha Chapman
2nd Unit Script Supervisor: Sabine Wührer

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Martin Fuhrer
Camera Operator: Seamus Corcoran
Steadicam Operators: Klemens Becker, Peter Robertson
Focus Puller: Ciaran Barry
Clapper Loader: Alice Madden
Gaffer: Philip Fitzsimons
Rigging Gaffer: Sean Creagh
Lighting Consultant: Larry Prinz
Best Boy: Stephen Doyle
Camera Grips: John Dunne, Richard Egan, Malcolm Huse
Still Photographers: Jonathan Hession, Patrick Redmond

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Mark Day
Assistant Editor: Mary Casey

MUSIC
Music by: Richard Rodney Bennett
Additional Score: John Harle

SOUND
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Peter Maxwell
Sound Editor: Danny Longhurst

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Joan Bergin
Assistant Costume Designer: Susan Scott
Trainee Costume Designer: Tara Van Zyl
Wardrobe Supervisor: Ger Scully
Wardrobe Assistant: Barbara Callaghan
Make Up: Morna Ferguson, Clare Lambe, Maire O'Sullivan
Chief Hair Stylist: Carol Dunne
Hair Stylist: Anne Dunne
Assistant Hair Stylist: Sandra Kelly

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Malcolm Thornton
Art Director: Stephen Simmonds
Set Decorator: Josie MacAvin

MISCELLANEOUS
Accounting Assistant: Tom Maguire
Production Assistants: Anthony Furlong, Niall Martin
On-Floor Assistant: Gabriel O'Brien
Cast Driver: Paul Kelly
Wranglers: Karen Bennett, Alfie Evans, Norman Evans, Wilson Knipe
Unit Nurse: Eileen Conroy
Publicist: Mary Crotty

LOCATIONS
Locations: Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Location Managers: Dougal Cousins, David Murphy
Assistant Location Manager: Clodagh Tierney

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Bronco McLoughlin
Stunts: Karen Bennett, Pat Condren, Dominick Hewitt, Shane Kelly, Alan Walsh

CASTING
Casting by: Noel Davis, Lynn Kressel, Nuala Moiselle

CAST
Ben Kingsley (Sweeney Todd)
Campbell Scott (Ben Carlyle)
Joanna Lumley (Mrs Lovett)
Selina Boyack (Alice)
David Wilmot (Tom)
Séan Ó'Flanagain (Charlie)
Katharine Schlesinger (Lucy)
John Kavanagh (Rutledge)
Joe Savino (Chambers)
Niall Buggy (vicar)
Peter Jeffrey (Dr Maxwell)
Peter Woodthorpe (Mannheim)
Bosco Hogan (head clerk)
Birdy Sweeney (elderly cutter)
Des Braiden (bald toothless man)
Gerard Walsh (customer with wig)
David Heap (footman)
Sandy Kennedy (prostitute)
Toby Bradford, Frankie McCafferty (piemen)
Simon Mulholland (Davis)
John Olohan (urchin in waxworks)
Ronan Wilmot (fence)
Joe Keenan (meat cart driver)
Gerry O'Brien (sailor with broken arm)
Christopher Lawlor (pickpocket)
Luke Hayden (press gang Sergeant)
Jonathan White (press gang victim)
Martin Dunne, Don Wycherley, Vincent Walsh (drunken sailors)
Alan Barry (surgeon)
Flora Montgomery (young woman in waxworks)
Dermot Martin (young man)
Darren Lawless (pieman in pie shop)

PLOT SUMMARY

19th century barber Sweeney Todd murders his customers and sells their bodies to the butcher next door, Mrs Lovett, who uses them in her famous meat pies.

AVAILABILITY

Brazil
Video Distributors: Flashstar Home Vídeo

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Finland
Rating: K-16 (video)

Iceland
Rating: 16

AWARDS

1999
Screen Actors Guild Awards, USA
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries (Ben Kingsley) - nominated

TIMELINE

1998
April
19: USA - television broadcast

May
Day Unknown: France - video release

August
30: UK - theatrical release

1999
August
7: Japan - theatrical release

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

O Barbeiro de Londres - Brazilian title
La bottega degli orrori di Sweeney Todd - Italian title
L'échoppe des horreurs - French video title
Legenden om Sweeney Todd - Swedish title

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970)
Mystery and Imagination: Sweeney Todd (1970)
Sweeney Todd (1926)
Sweeney Todd (1928)
Sweeney Todd (2006)
Sweeney Todd (2007)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert (2001)

KEYWORDS

barbers, cannibalism, serial killer, sweeney todd

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008