UK, 22 June 1947
80m
broadcast live, black and white, 4:3
mono, English
A British fantasy television play. It was broadcast live and never recorded.
Plot Summary
Doctor Faustus turns to magic and conjures the devil Mephistopheles.
Credits
Crew
BBC
Producer: Stephen Harrison
Adapted by: Stephen Harrison
Based on the Play by: Christopher Marlowe
Settings: Barry Learoyd
Cast
Keith Pyott (chorus)
David King-Wood (Faustus)
Owen Holder (Wagner)
Anthony Walman (good angel)
John Arnold (bad angel)
John Warrington (Valdes/emperor)
Gordon Davies (Cornelius)
Barry Phelps (first scholar/Envy)
Antony Kearey (second scholar/Wrath)
Hugh Griffith (Mephistophilis)
Peter Bennett (Robin)
Morris Sweden (Dick)
Victor Lucas (Lucifer)
Owen Holder (Pride)
Peter Bull (Covetousness/horse-courser)
Ronald Long (Gluttony/Pope)
Alban Blakelock (Sloth/Vintner)
Elizabeth Sellars (Lechery/Duchess of Anholt)
Alan Robinson (Cardinal of Lorraine/third scholar)
Gordon Davies (Duke of Anholt)
George Howe (old man)
George Stanford, Oiana Shergold, Denis Carey, Eric Carr, Don Crosby, Laurence Johnston, Roger Peploe, Don Tasker, Alfred Sutherland (devils, spirits and attendants)
References
Periodicals
- Radio Times no.1236 (22 June 1947) p.31 – illustrated listing
