The Shakespeare Collection | Julius Caesar (S01E04 - BBC 1979)

Directed by Herbert Wise
Produced by Cedric Messina
Taping dates: 26–31 July 1978
First transmitted in UK: 11 February 1979
First transmitted in the US: 14 February 1979
English subtitles: Optional (click on CC)

Cast & Characters:
Richard Pasco as Marcus Brutus
Charles Gray as Julius Caesar
Keith Michell as Marcus Antonius
David Collings as Cassius
Virginia McKenna as Portia
Elizabeth Spriggs as Calphurnia
Sam Dastor as Casca
Jon Laurimore as Flavius
John Sterland as Marullus
Garrick Hagon as Octavius Caesar
Brian Coburn as Messala
Leonard Preston as Titinius
Alexander Davion as Decius Brutus
Darien Angadi as Cinna
Andrew Hilton as Lucilius
Anthony Dawes as Ligarius
Roger Bizley as Metellus
Manning Wilson as Cicero
Ronald Forfar as Soothsayer
Patrick Marley as Artemidorus
William Simons as Trebonius
John Tordoff as Cinna the Poet
Philip York as Young Cato
Christopher Good as Clitus
Robert Oates as Pindarus
Alan Thompson as 1st Citizen/1st Plebeian
Leo Dolan as 2nd Citizen/2nd Plebeian
Johnny Wade as 3rd Plebeian/1st Soldier
David Henry as 4th Plebeian/2nd Soldier
Jonathan Scott-Taylor as Lucius
Tom Kelly as Claudius
Jack Eliott as Octavius' Servant
Michael Cogan as Caesar's Servant
Reginald Jessup as Poet
Maurice Thorogood as Strato
Michael Greatorex as Varro
Nicholas Gecks as Volumnius
Michael Jenkinson as Dardanius
Roy Spencer as Lepidus
Terence Conoley as Popilius
Noel Johnson as Publius

Director Herbert Wise felt that Julius Caesar should be set in the Elizabethan era, but as per the emphasis on realism, he instead set it in a Roman milieu.

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