Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced exile from political position during the 1920s and 30s. It was written and directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and Churchill was played by Robert Hardy.

[edit] Additional cast

• Siân Phillips as Clementine Churchill
  
• Nigel Havers as Randolph Churchill
  
• Tim Pigott-Smith as Brendan Bracken
  
• David Swift as Professor Lindemann
  
• Sherrie Hewson as Mrs. Pearman
  
• Moray Watson as Major Desmond Morton
  
• Paul Freeman as Ralph Wigram
  
• Frank Middlemass as Lord Derby
  
• Sam Wanamaker as Bernard Baruch
  
• Peter Barkworth as Stanley Baldwin
  
• Eric Porter as Neville Chamberlain
  
• Edward Woodward as Sir Samuel Hoare
  
• Peter Vaughan as Sir Thomas Inskip
  
• Robert James as Ramsay MacDonald
  
• Tony Mathews as Anthony Eden
  
• Ian Collier as Harold Macmillan
  
• Norman Jones as Clement Attlee
  
• Clive Swift as Sir Horace Wilson

[edit] Awards

The series was nominated for 8 BAFTA awards in 1982, namely:

• Best Actor (Robert Hardy)
• Best Costume Design (Evangeline Harrison)
• Best Design (Roger Murray-Leach)
• Best Drama Series (Richard Broke/Ferdinand Fairfax)
• Best Film Cameraman (Norman G. Langley)
• Best Film Editor (Lesley Walker)
• Best Make Up (Christine Beveridge/Mary Hillman)
• Best Original Television Music (Carl Davis)

[edit] External links

• Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years at the Internet Movie Database