Churchill And The Generals
Churchill and the Generals is a 1979 BBC television drama concerning the relationship between Winston Churchill and generals of the Allied forces, set in the Cabinet Office and War Rooms between 1940 and 1945.
It was written by Ian Curteis (with Peter Young as military advisor).
| Churchill and the Generals | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Ian Curteis |
| Directed by | Alan Gibson |
| Starring | Timothy West, Eric Porter, Arthur Hill |
| Theme music composer | Wilfred Josephs |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producers | Jack Levin Alan Shallcross |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC 2 |
| Release | 1979 |
It was first broadcast on BBC 2 on 23 September 1979, and repeated on BBC 1 on 22 August 1981. It screened on 5 March 1981 in the United States.
The Times television critic Michael Ratcliffe wrote: 'Churchill, though trivial, was intermittently moving and fun (alternative title: Punch in the Second World War?)'
Timothy West won the John Logie Baird performance award (1980). He reprised the role of Churchill in The Last Bastion (1984) and Hiroshima (1995).
Cast
- Timothy West - Winston Churchill
- Eric Porter - Gen. Sir Alan Brooke
- Arthur Hill - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Joseph Cotten - George C. Marshall
- Richard Dysart - Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Ian Richardson - Bernard L. Montgomery
- Patrick Allen - Claude Auchinleck
- Alexander Knox - Henry Stimson, Secretary of War
- Robert Arden - Harry Hopkins
- Paul Hardwick - Hastings Ismay
- Peter Copley - Sir John Dill
- Patrick Magee - Sir Archibald Wavell
- Terence Alexander - Sir Harold Alexander
- Lyndon Brook - King George VI
- Amanda Walker - Queen Elizabeth
- Richard Easton - Anthony Eden
- Geoffrey Keen - Sir Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran
- Bernard Archard - Edward, Lord Halifax
- Edward Jewesbury - Neville Chamberlain
- Barry Jackson - Clement Attlee
- Jacques Duby - Paul Reynaud
- André Maranne - Gen. Maurice Gamelin
- Jacques Boudet - Brig. Gen. Charles De Gaulle
- Noel Coleman - Gen. Sir Edmund Ironside
- Noel Johnson - Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsay
- Robert Raglan - Gen. Maitland Wilson
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