''An Honourable Murder'' is a 1960 British
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Godfrey Grayson
Godfrey Ramsey H. Grayson (1913, Birkenhead, Cheshire – 1998, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey) was an English film director.
Selected filmography
* ''Doctor Morelle'' (1949)
* '' Meet Simon Cherry'' (1949)
* ''The Adventures of PC 49'' (1949)
* ' ...
and starring
Norman Wooland
Norman Wooland (16 March 19053 April 1989) was an English character actor who appeared in many major films, including several Shakespearean adaptations.
Wooland was born in Düsseldorf, Germany to British parents. During the Second World War he ...
,
Margaretta Scott
Margaretta Mary Winifred ScottBrian McFarlane, "Scott, Margaretta Mary Winifred (1912–2005)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Jan 201available online Retrieved 30 August 2020. (13 February 1912 – 15 Apri ...
and
Lisa Daniely
Lisa Daniely (born Mary Elizabeth Bodington; 4 June 1929 – 24 January 2014) was a British film and television actress.
Life and career
Born in Reading, Berkshire, to an English solicitor father and a French mother, she was educated in Paris ...
.
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/ref> It is a modern reworking of William Shakespeare
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's ''Julius Caesar
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'' set in the corporate world of the City of London
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.
Cast
* Norman Wooland
Norman Wooland (16 March 19053 April 1989) was an English character actor who appeared in many major films, including several Shakespearean adaptations.
Wooland was born in Düsseldorf, Germany to British parents. During the Second World War he ...
– Brutus Smith
* Margaretta Scott
Margaretta Mary Winifred ScottBrian McFarlane, "Scott, Margaretta Mary Winifred (1912–2005)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Jan 201available online Retrieved 30 August 2020. (13 February 1912 – 15 Apri ...
– Claudia Caesar
* Lisa Daniely
Lisa Daniely (born Mary Elizabeth Bodington; 4 June 1929 – 24 January 2014) was a British film and television actress.
Life and career
Born in Reading, Berkshire, to an English solicitor father and a French mother, she was educated in Paris ...
– Paula
* Douglas Wilmer
Douglas Wilmer (8 January 1920 – 31 March 2016) was an English actor, best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the 1965 TV series ''Sherlock Holmes''.
Early life
Wilmer was born in Brentford, Middlesex, and received his education at King' ...
– Cassius
* Philip Saville
Philip Saville (28 October 1927 – 22 December 2016) was a British director, screenwriter and former actor whose career lasted half a century. The British Film Institute's Screenonline website described Saville as "one of Britain's most prolifi ...
– Mark Anthony
* John Longden
John Longden (11 November 1900 – 26 May 1971) was an English film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1926 and 1964, including five films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Biography
Longden was born in the West Indies, the son o ...
– Julian Caesar
* Marion Mathie
Marion Mathie (6 February 1925 – 20 January 2012) was an England, English actress who appeared in the last four series of ''Rumpole of the Bailey'' as his fearsome wife, Hilda ("She Who Must Be Obeyed") and many other roles in other production ...
– Portia Smith
* Colin Tapley
Colin Edward Livingstone Tapley (7 May 1909 – 1 December 1995) was a New Zealand actor in both American and British films. Born in New Zealand, he served in the Royal Air Force and an expedition to Antarctica before winning a Paramount Pictur ...
– Casca
* Kenneth Edwards – Trebon
* Arnold Bell
Arnold Bell (23 May 1901 – 12 March 1988) was a British actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Convict 99'' (1919) - Warder Gannawy
* '' Doctor Josser K.C.'' (1931)
* '' Josser in the Army'' (1932) - Becker
* ''Doss House'' (1933) - Reporter
* '' ...
– Ligar
References
External links
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1960 films
1960 drama films
British drama films
1960s English-language films
British films based on plays
Films directed by Godfrey Grayson
Films shot at New Elstree Studios
1960s British films
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