
British television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jenny Agutter and Arthur Lowe. Hopkins performance as Dickens saw him nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1971.
Charles Dickens

Elizabeth Ball Dickens

Mrs. Ternan

Maria Beadnell

Mr. Vuffin

Dolby

Mrs. Jarley

The Narrator (voice)

John Dickens

Mrs. Dickens

Rosa Emma Drummond

Mrs. Gamp

William Shaw

Macready

Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan

Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland

Codlin/Mould/Ramsay

Lammert/Whitmore/John Black

Georgina Hogarth

Mr. Ellis
Kate Dickens (as Jocelyn Birdsall)
Smike
Charles Dickens (as a child)