Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced exile from political position during the 1920s and 30s. It was written and directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and Churchill was played by Robert Hardy. Hardy's brilliant performance as Churchill won critical acclaim and a BAFTA award in 1982. He reprised the role in The Sittaford Mystery, Bomber Harris and War and Remembrance and at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the end of World War II in 1995 when he quoted a number of Churchill's wartime speeches in character.
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Robert Hardy
Winston Churchill · 8 eps
Eric Porter
Neville Chamberlain · 8 eps
Peter Barkworth
Stanley Baldwin · 8 eps
Nigel Havers
Randolph Churchill · 8 eps
Siân Phillips
Clementine Churchill · 8 eps
Edward Woodward
Sir Samuel Hoare · 8 eps
Tim Pigott-Smith
Brendan Bracken · 8 eps
Sherrie Hewson
Mrs. Pearman (uncredited) / Mrs. Pearman · 6 eps
David Swift
Professor Lindemann · 5 eps
Robert James
Ramsay Macdonald (uncredited) / Ramsay Macdonald · 5 eps
Paul Freeman
3 eps
David Quilter
Wing-Commander Torr Anderson · 3 eps
Walter Gotell
Lord Swinton / Lord Swinton (uncredited) · 3 eps
Phil Brown
2 eps
Peter Vaughan
2 eps
Clive Swift
2 eps
Frank Middlemass
Lord Derby (uncredited) / Lord Derby · 2 eps
Terence Rigby
Thomas Barlow / Thomas Barlow (uncredited) · 2 eps
Sam Wanamaker
Bernard Baruch · 1 ep
Stephen Elliott
1 ep
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