The Fool (1990)

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 (182)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Derek Jacobi

Mr. Frederick / Sir John

Paul Brooke

Lord Paramount

Julian Firth

John Tams

I

Ian Targett

P

Paddy Ward

J

Jo Warne

C

Chris Whittingham

R

Rory Murray

Henry Ottaway

Corin Redgrave

Sir Thomas Neathouse

S

Sally Ashby

Brenda Bruce

C

Cindy Oswin

B

Bernard Padden

E

Emma Piper

John Warner

Roger Hammond

Augustus Roddick

A

Alec Wallis

Marquess

Marty Cruikshank

C

Cordelia Ditton

S

Susan Field

G

Graham Seed

S

Stanley Lloyd

H

Hilary Sesta

Murray Melvin

Jeremy Ruttle

Jonathan Cecil

Sir Martin Locket

J

John Atkinson

Una Brandon-Jones

J

James Greene

Z

Zoe Hicks

B

Brian Poyser

Norman Lumsden

Richard Clifford

George Locket

Bill Wallis

Henry Beauchamp-Harper

Rosalind Adler

R

Rex Doyle

R

Reginald Jessup

C

Christine Pilgrim

J

Joanna Maude

A

Amanda Wenban

Hugh Lloyd

Viscount

Frederick Treves

Samuel Simpson

B

Ben Aris

Gregory Floy

Howard Goorney

Christopher Good

Petra Markham

Ian Lindsay

Irina Brook

Georgiana Shillibeer

Sarah Flind

P

Penny Bunton

Julian Bleach

J

Jean Murphy

F

Fiona McAlpine

A

Anne Romyn

A

Ann-Marie Gwatkin

Emily

James Cosmo

Mr. Bowring

T

Terence Conoley

J

James Coyle

S

Stephen Daltry

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