Bertie and Elizabeth
| Bertie and Elizabeth | |
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Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Bertie & Elizabeth is a 2002 television film directed by
death of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The role of Queen Mary was portrayed by Dame Eileen Atkins, a role she again played in season one of The Crown
in 2016.
Plot
The film begins with the initial meeting between the then
Second World War, as Buckingham Palace is hit and partially destroyed by a Luftwaffe
bomb.
The film portrays Bertie's struggle to overcome his stammer, the fear he felt towards his father and the punishing stress the Duke was placed under during the abdication crisis of 1936.
Cast
- James Wilby as Bertie, later King George VI
- Juliet Aubrey as Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth
- Alan Bates as King George V
- Eileen Atkins as Queen Mary
- David Ryall as Winston Churchill
- Charles Edwards as David, later King Edward VIII, then Duke of Windsor
- Tommy Lascelles
- Oliver Ford Davies as Archbishop Lang
- Corin Redgrave as General Montgomery
- Robert Hardy as President Roosevelt
- Michael Elwyn as Lionel Logue
- Amber Rose Sealey as Wallis Simpson
- Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Lady Mabell Airlie
- David Burke as Lord John Reith
- Helen Ryan as Queen Wilhelmina
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Denis Lill as Clement Attlee
- Thelma Furness
- Dolly Wells as Princess Mary
- Terence Harvey as Sir Clement Price Thomas
- Jeremy Child as Sir Samuel Hoare
- Anthony Smee as Ernest Simpson
- Geoffrey Beevers as Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
See also
- The King's Speech, a film about George VI's stammer and his efforts to reduce its effect.
- Martin Charterisin seasons 3 and 4.
References
- ^ Amazon UK: Bertie and Elizabeth DVD, running time Retrieved 2012-06-24
External links
- Bertie and Elizabeth at IMDb
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