The Wrong Box

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The Wrong Box (4-Jul-1966)

Director: Bryan Forbes

Writers: Larry Gelbart; Burt Shevelove

From novel: The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

Music Composed, Arranged and Conducted by: John Barry

Producer: Bryan Forbes

Keywords: Comedy

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Michael Caine Actor 14-Mar-1933 Get Carter

Peter Cook Comic 19-Nov-1937 9-Jan-1995 Bedazzled

Cicely Courtneidge Actor 1-Apr-1893 26-Apr-1980 The Ghost Train

Willoughby Goddard Actor 4-Jul-1926 11-Apr-2008 Gessler on William Tell

Dick Gregory Activist 12-Oct-1932 19-Aug-2017 Autobiography: NIGGER!

Tony Hancock Radio Personality 12-May-1924 25-Jun-1968 Hancock's Half Hour

Irene Handl Actor 27-Dec-1901 29-Nov-1987 Matronly British character actor

Wilfrid Lawson Actor 14-Jan-1900 10-Oct-1966 Pygmalion

John Le Mesurier Actor 5-Apr-1912 15-Nov-1983 Dad's Army

John Mills Actor 22-Feb-1908 23-Apr-2005 Ryan's Daughter

Dudley Moore Comic 19-Apr-1935 27-Mar-2002 Arthur

Nanette Newman Actor 29-May-1934 International Velvet

Ralph Richardson Actor 19-Dec-1902 10-Oct-1983 Things To Come

Norman Rossington Actor 24-Dec-1928 21-May-1999 A Hard Day's Night

Leonard Rossiter Actor 21-Oct-1926 5-Oct-1984 The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

Peter Sellers Actor 8-Sep-1925 24-Jul-1980 Inspector Clouseau

Graham Stark Actor 20-Jan-1922 29-Oct-2013 The Return of the Pink Panther

CAST

Members of the Tontine
Jeremy Lloyd ... Brian Allen Harvey
James Villiers ... Sydney Whitcombe Sykes
Graham Stark ... Ian Scott Fife
Dick Gregory ... Leicester Young Fielding
Nicholas Parsons ... Alan Frazer Scrope
Willoughby Goddard ... James Whyte Wragg
Valentine Dyall ... Oliver Pike Harmsworth
Leonard Rossiter ... Vyvyan Alistair Montague
Hamilton Dyce ... Derek Lloyd Peter Digby
Assisted by
Hilton Edwards ... Lawyer
Timothy Bateson ... Clerk
Donald Oliver ... Gunner Sergeant
Totti Truman Taylor ... Lady at Launching
Jeremy Roughton ... Bugler
Frank Singuineau ... Native Bearer
Michael Lees ... Young Digby
Avis Bunnage ... Queen Victoria
The Finsbury Households
John Mills ... Masterman
Michael Caine ... Michael
Wilfrid Lawson ... Peacock (The Butler)
Ralph Richardson ... Joseph
Peter Cook ... Morris
Dudley Moore ... John
Nanette Newman ... Julia
Gwendolyn Watts ... Maidservant
Vanda Godsell ... Mrs. Goodge
Peter Graves ... Military Officer
Tutte Lemkow ... Strangler
Marianne Stone ... Spinster
John Junkin ... 1st Engine Driver
Roy Murray ... Stoker
Donald Tandy ... Ticket Collector
Lionel Gamlin ... 2nd Engine Driver
Martin Terry ... Stoker
Michael Bird ... Countryman
George Selway ... Railway Vanman
Joseph Behrmann ... Railway Vanman
Peter Sellers ... Dr. Pratt
John Le Mesurier ... Dr. Slattery
Norman Rossington ... 1st Rough
Thomas Gallagher ... 2nd Rough
Charles Bird ... Benn's Vanman
Thorley Walters ... Lawyer Patience
Cicely Courtneidge ... Maj. Martha
Diane Clare ... Mercy
Gerald Sim ... 1st Undertaker
Tony Hancock ... Detective
Tony Thawnton ... 2nd Undertaker
The Temperance Seven ... Themselves
Reg Lye ... 3rd Undertaker
George Spence ... Workman in Road
Irene Handl ... Mrs. Hackett
Norman Bird ... Clergyman

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