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Galileo (1975) More at IMDbPro »

• Joseph Losey had also directed the original Broadway production of "Galileo", twenty-eight years previously (in 1947).
  
  
• Lindsay Anderson turned down the part of The Infuriated Monk.
  
  
• Michael Gough was an eleventh-hour choice after the actor first cast as Sagredo was taken ill during lunch.
  
  
• John Gielgud's cameo was filmed in one day
  
  
• All the cast worked for little money.
  
  
• Michael Gough is nowhere to be found in the casting interviews/ideas lists of Sagredo kept by the BFI Special collection.
  
  
• Basil Henson was first cast in another role.
  
  

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