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Seasons:
1 full episode list
Release Date:
1 June 1980 (USA) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama more
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. more
User Comments:
Exceptional BBC Miniseries more (3 total)

Cast

 (Series Cast [28])
Rosemary Leach ... Queen Victoria (4 episodes, 1978)

Ian McShane ... Benjamin Disraeli (4 episodes, 1978)
Mary Peach ... Mary Anne / ... (3 episodes, 1978)
John Carlisle ... W.E. Gladstone / ... (3 episodes, 1978)
Jeremy Clyde ... Lord John Manners (3 episodes, 1978)
Brett Usher ... Bulwer / ... (3 episodes, 1978)
Brewster Mason ... Chancellor Bismarck / ... (2 episodes, 1978)
Antony Brown ... Peel / ... (2 episodes, 1978)
David de Keyser ... Baron de Rothschild (2 episodes, 1978)
David Wood ... Lord Derby (2 episodes, 1978)
John Gregg ... Lord Salisbury (2 episodes, 1978)
Frances Bennett ... Lady Chesterfield (2 episodes, 1978)
Brendan Barry ... Sir Stafford Northcote (2 episodes, 1978)
Maria Charles ... Maria D'Israeli / ... (2 episodes, 1978)
Mark Dignam ... Lord Lyndhurst / ... (2 episodes, 1978)
Patrick Drury ... Montagu Corry / ... (2 episodes, 1978)
Sheridan Fitzgerald ... Selina Forester / ... (2 episodes, 1978)
Patricia Hodge ... Rosina / ... (2 episodes, 1978)
Peter Hughes ... Philip Rose (2 episodes, 1978)
Leigh Lawson ... Count Alfred D'Orsay / ... (2 episodes, 1978)
Jenny Lipman ... Sarah D'Israeli / ... (2 episodes, 1978)
Peter Miles ... Lord Henry Lennox (2 episodes, 1978)

Aubrey Morris ... Isaac D'Israeli / ... (2 episodes, 1978)
Godfrey Quigley ... Daniel O'Connell (2 episodes, 1978)
David Riley ... George Smythe (2 episodes, 1978)
Anton Rodgers ... Lord George Bentinck (2 episodes, 1978)
William Russell ... Wyndham Lewis (2 episodes, 1978)
Margaret Whiting ... Lady Blessing / ... (2 episodes, 1978)
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Series Directed by
Claude Whatham (4 episodes, 1978)
 
Series Writing credits
David Butler (4 episodes, 1978)

Series Produced by
Cecil Clarke .... producer (4 episodes, 1978)
Lorna Mason .... associate producer (4 episodes, 1978)
 
Series Original Music by
Wilfred Josephs (4 episodes, 1978)
 
Series Casting by
Joan Brown (4 episodes, 1978)
 
Series Production Design by
Anthony Waller (4 episodes, 1978)
 
Series Costume Design by
Ann Hollowood (4 episodes, 1978)
Sheelagh Killeen (3 episodes, 1978)
 
Series Makeup Department
Sheila Mann .... makeup supervisor (4 episodes, 1978)

Lorraine Dawkins .... makeup artist (unknown episodes)
Anita Harris .... makeup artist (unknown episodes)
Mary Southgate .... makeup artist (unknown episodes)
Brenda Yewdell .... makeup artist (unknown episodes)
 
Series Sound Department
Henry Bird .... sound director (4 episodes, 1978)
 
Series Camera and Electrical Department
Dennis Bartlett .... senior camera operator (4 episodes, 1978)
Pete Dyson .... lighting director (4 episodes, 1978)
John Willment .... senior vision controller (4 episodes, 1978)
 
Series Editorial Department
Felicity Maton .... vision mixer (4 episodes, 1978)
Al Pigden .... editor: video tape (4 episodes, 1978)
 
Series Music Department
Marcus Dods .... conductor (4 episodes, 1978)
 
Series Other crew
Sheila Atha .... stage manager (4 episodes, 1978)
Bruce Chandler .... senior floor manager (4 episodes, 1978)
Jane Mullard .... production assistant (4 episodes, 1978)
Brian True-May .... location administrator (4 episodes, 1978)

Colin Arthur .... prosthetics design (unknown episodes)
Nick Maley .... prosthetics technician (unknown episodes)
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic (USA)
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Runtime:
60 min (4 episodes)
Country:
UK
Language:
English

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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Exceptional BBC Miniseries, 10 December 2000
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Author: sunspot from Midwich, in the pub

I was only about 12 when PBS here in the US originally aired this, and I recall pretending to be sick and staying home one day from school so that I could catch the final episode one weekday afternoon. I probably learned more about history that day than I did in a year wasted in our public schools, and it was entertaining, too.

Sadly, the BBC doesn't seem to produce shows like this anymore, and if they do PBS isn't buying them. Pity.

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