< Richard II (1978)

EPISODE 1.2 (The BBC Television Shakespeare) | "King Richard the Second" | 2h 38m | Open in IMDB | WL | ? / 8.0 (346)

Drama | The incompetent King Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer King.

• Director: David Giles
• Writer: William Shakespeare
• Derek Jacobi (40) - Richard II
• John Gielgud (74) - John of Gaunt
• Jon Finch (36) - Henry Bolingbroke
• Wendy Hiller (66) - Duchess of York
• Charles Gray (50) - Duke of York
• Mary Morris (63) - Duchess of Gloucester
• David Swift (47) - Duke of Northumberland
• Clifford Rose (49) - Bishop of Carlisle
• Charles Keating (37) - Duke of Aumerle
• Richard Owens (47) - Thomas Mowbray
• Janet Maw (24) - Queen
• Jeffrey Holland (32) - Duke of Surrey
• Jeremy Bulloch (33) - Henry Percy
• Robin Sachs (27) - Bushy
• Damien Thomas (36) - Bagot
• Alan Dalton - Green
• David Dodimead (59) - Lord Ross
• John Flint (49) - Lord Willoughby
• Carl Oatley - Earl Berkeley
• William Whymper - Sir Stephen Scroop