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The Fool
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Cast

Gregory Floy

Jane Wymark

John Tordoff

Philip McGough
Mr. Croker

Richard Caldicot
Duke

Miranda Richardson
Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia

Ronnie Brody

Mark Lambert

Robert Putt

Brenda Bruce

Nora Connolly
Stage actress

Petra Markham

Richard Graydon

Michael Hordern
Mr. Tatham

David Keyes
Tom

Corin Redgrave
Sir Thomas Neathouse

Jim Carter
Mr. Blackthorn

David Sterne

Joanna Brookes
Stage actress

Don Henderson
Bob

Michael Andrew

Graham Fletcher-Cook
Whistling Billy

Cyril Cusack
The Ballad Seller

James Cosmo
Mr. Bowring

Merelina Kendall

John McEnery
Mr. Maclean

Ron Cook

Jessica James

Murray Melvin
Jeremy Ruttle

Una Brandon-Jones

Maria Charles
The Pure Gatherer

George Savvides
Mr. Nick

Christopher Good

Jonathan Cecil
Sir Martin Locket

Ian Gelder
Henry Gibbs

Patricia Hayes
The Dowager Duchess

Howard Goorney

David Pugh

Maria Aitken
Lady Amelia

Stratford Johns
Arthur Shillibeer

Linda Kerr Scott

Michael Medwin
Mr. Wells

Derek Jacobi
Mr. Frederick / Sir John

Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Harris

Julian Firth

Hugh Lloyd
Viscount

Alan Ford

Marty Cruikshank

Irina Brook
Georgiana Shillibeer

Joan Sims
Lady Daphne

Sally Faulkner

Mark Arnold
Stage actor

Ewen Bremner

John Quarmby

John Tams

Bill Wallis
Henry Beauchamp-Harper

John Warner

Sarah Flind

Michael Mears

Norman Lumsden

Richard Clifford
George Locket

Rosalind Adler

Paul Brooke
Lord Paramount

Roger Hammond
Augustus Roddick

Nicholas Tennant
Curley

Ian Lindsay

Michael Feast
Mr. Edwin

Frederick Treves
Samuel Simpson

Janet Henfrey

Dilys Hamlett
Lady Emma

Stephen Rashbrook

Julian Bleach

Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Bowring