Akenfield

Directed by Peter Hall
1974    1h 38mDrama
7.2
As the young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.

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Cast of Akenfield

  • Stanley BaxterBlacksmith
  • Ronald BlytheThe Vicar / Writer
  • Ethel BrantonMrs. Quantrill
  • Lyn BrooksCharlotte Rouse
  • Garrow ShandTom Rouse
  • Peggy ColeDulcie Rouse
  • Barbara TilneyJean Quantrill
  • Ida PageAunt Ida
  • Ted DedmanTed
  • Mollie DedmanMollie
  • Charlie CornishCharlie
  • Charlie WhitingCharlie
  • Robin BuckinghamRobin
  • Alan WrightYoung Tom Rouse
  • Mary HammondYoung Dulcie Rouse
  • F.O. StaddonThe Minister
  • Bob WilsonFarmer
  • Reg HallPoliceman
  • Peter TuddenhamOld Tom (voiceover)
  • Clifford Arbon
  • Ernie Cole
  • Ray Cornish
  • Victoria Peacock
  • Barry Martin
  • Neil Scopes
  • John Simpson
  • Ron Wood
  • Sidney Bedwell
  • Andy Chenery
  • Allan Cole
  • John Meek
  • Walter Whatling
  • Roger Clark
  • Sean Wood
  • Wilfred Frost
  • Roger Burroughes
  • Jonathan Fox
  • Monty Hale
  • Phyllis Grout
  • Mark Thorpe
  • Fred Collins
  • Lucy Dedman
  • David Dedman
  • Helen Tydeman
  • Arthur Smith
  • Margaret Allen
  • Erica Zant-Boer
  • Violet Smith
  • Ena Bower
  • Claire Bateson
  • Kenneth Runnacles
  • Sarah Noakes
  • Romy Jacob
  • Cecil Barrell
  • Eunice Carpenter
  • Gladys de Brisay
  • Wendy Keable
  • Joan Piper
  • Peter HallDirector / Producer
  • Rex PykeProducer

 

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