1944: in the fifth year of the Second World War, a thoughtful middle-aged British Army officer, Captain Charles Ryder, finds himself posted unexpectedly to Brideshead Castle. Ryder has been there before, and time slips back to when he was an undergraduate at Oxford, twenty years before. There he meets Sebastian Flyte (a young man with a teddy bear) when Sebastian, rolling drunk, vomits through Charles's window and sends him flowers to apologize. Charles visits Brideshead for the first time.
Directed By
Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-HoggWritten By
John MortimerRelease Date
October 12, 1981Cast of Brideshead Revisited
Jeremy IronsCharles Ryder
Anthony AndrewsLord Sebastian Flyte
Diana QuickLady Julia Flyte
Claire BloomTeresa Flyte, Lady Marchmain
Phoebe NichollsLady Cordelia Flyte
Simon Jones'Bridey', Lord Brideshead
John GielgudEdward 'Ned' Ryder
Laurence OlivierAlexander Flyte, Lord Marchmain
Stéphane AudranCara
Jane AsherCelia Ryder
Charles KeatingRex Mottram
Jeremy Sinden'Boy', Viscount Mulcaster
Mona WashbourneNanny Hawkins
Nickolas GraceAnthony Blanche
Jenny RunacreBrenda Champion
Robin SachsEtonian
Michael BiltonHayter
Doris NolanMrs. Stuyvesant-Oglander
John GrilloMr. Samgrass
Ralph NossekPlender
Ronald FraserRed-Haired Man
John NettletonCommanding Officer
Kenneth CranhamSergeant Block
Joseph BradyChief Purser
Gary WaldhornMajor Wilson
John Le MesurierFather Mowbray
Brian OultonMan from the Tate
Andy RashleighPoliceman
Niall TóibínFather Mackay
Anna QuayleNancy Tallboys
Bill OwenLunt
Maggie SteedDiplomat's Wife
Paul ClaytonTom
Michael GoughDoctor Grant
Stephen MooreJasper
Maria CharlesMa Mayfield
Stephen MallatrattMedical Officer
Robert UrquhartQuartering Commandant
Sally BazelyGrizel
Geoffrey ChaterConsul
Nicholas Le PrevostDoctor
Graham SeedJorkins
Simon ChandlerLieutenant James
Roger MilnerWilcox
Richard HopeLieutenant Hooper
Mark ChapmanGraduate (uncredited)