The Mayor of Casterbridge is a British television film, produced by Georgina Lowe for Sally Head Productions and directed by David Thacker, based on the 1886 novel by Thomas Hardy. Appearing in the film are Ciarán Hinds as Henchard, Juliet Aubrey as...
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing in for Dorchester in Dorset...
The Mayor of Casterbridge is a 1978 BBC seven-part serial based on the eponymous 1886 book by the British novelist Thomas Hardy. The six-hour drama was written by television dramatist Dennis Potter and directed by David Giles with Alan Bates as the...
Benjamin Lorton Crompton (born 1974) is an English actor and stand-up comedian, has appeared on the BBC sketch show Man Stroke Woman and as Colin in the BBC Three sitcom Ideal from 2005 to 2011). Crompton portrayed Eddison Tollett on the HBO...
Ciarán Hinds ( KEER-ən; born 9 February 1953) is an Irish actor. Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Hinds is known for a range of screen and stage roles and has starred in feature films including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover...
Far from the Madding Crowd is the fourth published novel by English author Thomas Hardy; and his first major literary success. It was published on 23 November 1874. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where...
James Brian Mark Purefoy (born 3 June 1964) is an English actor. He played Marcus Antonius in the HBO series Rome, Nick Jenkins in A Dance to the Music of Time, college professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the Fox thriller series The...
Sir Alan Arthur Bates (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from Whistle Down the Wind to the kitchen sink drama A Kind of Loving. Bates is also known for...
Trudie Styler (born 6 January 1954) is an English actress, director, and film producer. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has appeared in numerous stage, television, and film productions. Styler is also known for her work as a...
Polly Alexandra Walker (born 19 May 1966) is an English actress. Her first TV role was as romantic heroine Lorna Doone alongside Clive Owen in the 1990 ITV TV film of the same name. She has starred in the films Enchanted April (1991), Patriot Games...