form y separately published work icon Caesar's Friend single work   film/TV  
Adaptation of Caesar's Friend : A Play in Three Acts Campbell Dixon , Dermot Michael Macgregor Morrah , 1933 single work drama
Issue Details: First known date: 1947... 1947 Caesar's Friend
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Film Details - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1947

Producers:

George More O'Ferrall.

Production Companies:

British Broadcasting Corporation.

Cast:

Alan Wheatley (Judas, a man of Kerioth), Abraham Sofaer (Joseph Caiaphas, High Priest and Leader of the Sadducees), Kevin Sheldon (Malchus, servant to Caiaphas),  Anthony Sharp (Annas, father-in-law to Caiaphas and formerly High Priest), Howieson Culff (Gamaliel, an eminent Pharisee), John Harvey (Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Sanhedrin), Edwin Ellis (A Roman sentry), Stanley Lemin (A Decurion), Frank Foster (Peter, a Galilean fisherman), Madge Brindley (Zillah, a blind woman of Hebron), Aubrey Dexter (Marcus Horatius Balbus, Commandant of the Roman garrison), André Morell (Sextus Pontius Pilate, Roman Governor of Judaea), Joan Maude (Mary, a woman of Magdala), Norman Prince (Damon, a Greek slave of Pilate),  Margaretta Scott (Claudia Procula, wife of Pilate), Mary Martlew (Marcella, Maid-of-Honour to Procula), Alan Judd (Lucius Licinius Cotta, a young officer of Pilate's staff), and Soldiers of the 10th Legion (uncredited).

Source: Radio Times, 25 April 1947, p.23.


Release Dates:

Broadcast on 1 May 1947.


Settings:
  • Jerusalem,
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    Israel,
    c
    Middle East, Asia,
  • 33 CE
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