Emma (1972 TV serial)
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Jane Austen
's novel Emma
(1815) was released on British television in 1972.
This dramatization brings to life the wit and humour of Jane Austen's arguably finest novel Emma, recreating her most irritatingly endearing female character, of whom she wrote "no one but myself could like."
Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find that it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification. The often insensitive, well-meaning, incorrigible Emma Woodhouse having engineered the marriage of governess, companion and friend Miss Taylor, now turns her attention towards making a match for Mr Elton, the local vicar, and her new protégée Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...
's novel Emma
Emma
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively 'comedy of manners' among...
(1815) was released on British television in 1972.
This dramatization brings to life the wit and humour of Jane Austen's arguably finest novel Emma, recreating her most irritatingly endearing female character, of whom she wrote "no one but myself could like."
Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find that it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification. The often insensitive, well-meaning, incorrigible Emma Woodhouse having engineered the marriage of governess, companion and friend Miss Taylor, now turns her attention towards making a match for Mr Elton, the local vicar, and her new protégée Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger.
Cast and crew
- Doran GodwinDoran GodwinDoran Godwin is a British actress.She is mainly remembered for her roles as Erica Bayliss in the popular TV detective series Shoestring and as Philippa Yeates in The Irish R.M., opposite Peter Bowles. She also played the title role in the 1972 BBC production of Emma. She has appeared extensively...
- Emma Woodhouse - John CarsonJohn Carson (actor)John Carson is a British actor noted for his appearances in film and television.Making his film debut in 1947, he carved out a career appearing in low budget British movies such as Seven Keys ; Smokescreen ; and Master Spy...
- Mr Knightley - Donald EcclesDonald EcclesDonald Eccles was a British character actor.Born in Nafferton, East Yorkshire, he made his stage debut in New York City in 1930, and later became known as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
- Mr Woodhouse - Constance ChapmanConstance ChapmanConstance Chapman was an English character actor working in theatre and television. She also made occasional film appearances....
- Miss Bates - Robert EastRobert East (actor)Robert Gwyn East East is an accomplished theatre and tv actor. He also wrote Incident at Tulse Hill, first produced at the Hampstead Theatre in December 1981 under the direction of Harold Pinter....
- Frank Churchill - Ania MarsonAnia MarsonAnia Marson , in Gdynia, is an English and Polish Actress.-Biography:She was trained at the famed Corona Stage Academy and began her career in 1963 in the famous series Dixon of Dock Green, then in 1960, in other series like The Troubleshooters in 1968 and "Detective" in 1969...
- Jane Fairfax - Ellen Dryden - Mrs Weston
- Raymond Adamson - Mr Weston
- Fiona WalkerFiona WalkerFiona Walker is an English actress, known for numerous theatre and television roles between the 1960s and 1990s.Her best remembered TV part is poaaibly the role of Agrippina in the BBC adaptation of I, Claudius , directed by Herbert Wise...
- Mrs Elton - Timothy Peters - Mr Elton
- Debbie Bowen - Harriet Smith
- John AlkinJohn AlkinJohn Alkin was a British actor turned spiritual healer.Alkin is best remembered for 2 roles, namely that of DS Tom Daniels in The Sweeney, and as barrister Barry Deeley in the long running daytime TV Drama Crown Court...
- Robert Martin - Mary Holder - Mrs Bates
- Vivienne Moore - Williams
- Amber Thomas - Patty
- Hilda FenemoreHilda FenemoreHilda Lilian Fenemore was an English actress with a prolific career in film and television from the 1940s to the 1990s...
- Mrs Cole - Norman Atkyns - Shop Assistant
- Belinda Tighe - Isabella Knightley
- Yves Tighe - John Knightley
- The Tighe Family - The Knightley Children
- Mollie SugdenMollie SugdenIsobel Mary 'Mollie' Sugden was an English comedy actress best known for portraying the saleswoman Mrs. Slocombe in the British sitcom Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1985. She later reprised this role in Grace & Favour, which ran from 1992 to 1993...
- Mrs Goddard - Lala Lloyd - Mrs Ford
- Marian Tanner - Betty Bickerton
- Sam Williams - Gypsy Boy
- Tom McCall, David Butt, Christopher Green - Musicians
- Lennox Phillips - Script Editor
- Geraldine Stephenson - Choreographer
- Ken Westbury - Film Cameraman
- Derek Medus - Sound
- Clare Douglas - Film Editor
- Joan Ellacott - Costume Designer
- Pam Meager - Makeup
- Richie Richardson - Lighting
- Colin Dickson - Sound
- Tim Harvey - Designer
- Martin Lisemore - Producer
- John GlenisterJohn GlenisterJohn Glenister is a British television director. His credits include Rumpole of the Bailey, Play For Today and Dennis Potter's 1971 biopic of Casanova, A Touch of Frost, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and A Bit of a Do.He is the father of actors Philip Glenister and Robert Glenister.-External links:...
- Director - Denis Costanduros - Dramatisation