The Duke
A priceless true story.
In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happened next became the stuff of legend.
Director Roger Michell
Trailer
Cast
Sarah Beck Mather
Press Woman
Darren Charman
Duke of Wellington
Matthew Steer
Passing BBC Manager
Michael Gould
Express Editor
Fionn Whitehead
Jackie Bunton
Heather Craney
Debbie
Michael Hodgson
Barry Spence
Val McLane
Freda
Simon Hubbard
PC Myton
John Heffernan
Neddie Cussen
Charlie Richmond
PO Official #1
Sian Clifford
Dr. Unsworth
Michael Mather
Eddie
Sammy T. Dobson
Bakery Assistant
Jim Broadbent
Kempton Bunton
Anna Maxwell Martin
Mrs. Gowling
Stephen Rashbrook
Foreman
James Wilby
Judge Aarvold
Joshua McGuire
Eric Crowther
Philip Gascoyne
Press Photographer (uncredited)
Andrew Havill
Sir Philip Hendy
Sam Swainsbury
DI Brompton
Craig Conway
Mr. Walker
Neal Barry
Gallery Security Guard
Helen Mirren
Dorothy Bunton
Matthew Goode
Jeremy Hutchinson
Cliff Burnett
Wilf
Charles Edwards
Sir Joseph Simpson
Dorian Lough
DI Macpherson
Ashley Kumar
Javid Akram
Austin Haynes
Scruffy Little Boy
Claire Lams
BBC Receptionist
Jack Bandeira
Kenny Bunton
Aimee Kelly
Irene Boslover
Charlotte Spencer
Pammy
Richard McCabe
Rab Butler