Britannia Hospital

1982

Director: Lindsay Anderson
Producer: Davina Belling and Clive Parsons. Film and General. In association with EMI and the National Film Finance Corporation. Distributed by Columbia-EMI-Warner
Associate Producer: John Comfort
Location Manager: Bill Lang
Screenplay: David Sherwin
Director of Photography: Mike Fash
Camera Operator: Mike Roberts
Editor: Michael Ellis
Set Director: Simon Wakefield
Special Effects: George Gibbs, Richard Conway, Dave McCall
Additional Effects: Peter Aston
Music: Alan Price
Musical Director: Derek Wadsworth
Casting: Patsy Pollock
Sound: Bruce White, Ian Fuller, Hugh Strain, Alan Pattillo
Wardrobe: Ian Hickinbotham, Monica Howe, Keith Morton
Assistant Directors: Terry Needham, Roger Simons, Michael Murray, Chris Brock, Tim Reed
Make-up: Linda de Vetta, Alan Boyle, Nick Maley
Production Assistant: Marilyn Clarke
Cast: Leonard Rossiter (Potter), Brian Pettifer (Biles), John Moffatt (Figg), Fulton Mackay (Johns), Vivian Pickles (Matron), Graham Crowden (Professor Miller), Jill Bennett (MacMillan), Peter Jeffrey (Sir Geoffrey), Marsha Hunt (Nurse Persil), Catherine Willmer (Houston), Mary MacLeod (Casualty Sister), Joan Plowright (Phyllis Grimshaw), Robin Askwith (Keating), Dave Atkins (Sharkey), Malcolm McDowell (Mick Travis), Mark Hamill (Red), Frank Grimes (Sammy/Voice of Genesis),Peter Machin (Mancini), Marcus Powell (Sir Anthony), John Bett (Lady Felicity), Gladys Crosbie (Queen Mother), Rufus Collins (Odingu), Ram John Holder and Jom Findlay (Aides), Pauline Melville (Clarissa), Kevin Lloyd, Robert Pugh and Robbie Coltrane (Pickets), Dandy Nichols (Florrie), Glen Williams (Whooley), Brian Glover and Mike Grady (Painters), Tony Haygarth (Fraser), Jagdish Kumar (Sen), Patrick Durkin (Blodgett), Passy Joyce (Feeney), Richard Griffiths (Bernie), Dave Hill (Jeff), Charmian May (Miss Diamond), Valentine Dyall (Rochester), Roland Culver (Wetherby), Betty Marsden (Hermione), Adele Strong (Old Lady), Ted Burnett (Taxi Driver), Gabrielle Floyd and Barbara Flynn (Private Nurses), Val Pringle (Ngami), Robert Lee (Mr Banzai), Errol Saher (Mbwami), John Gordon Sinclair (Gregory), Paul McCleary (Assistant), Paul Kember (Sound Recordist), John Stonehouse (PA), Patricia Healey (Intensive Care Sister), Rosemary Martin (Casualty Nurse), Robert Owen (Ambulanceman), Ellis Dale (Man in Wheelchair), Maggie Ollerenshaw (Miss Rowntree), Elizabeth Bennett, Patsy Byrne and Brenda Cavendish (Nurses), David Daker and Edward Peel (Workmen), Alan Bates (Macready), Arthur Lowe (Statesman Patient), T.P.Mackenna, Peter Holmes and Salman Peer (Theatre Surgeons), Janette Foggo and Cora Kinnaird (Theatre Nurses), Joshua Bancel, Elizabeth Bennett, Burt Caesar, Joe Cameron-Brown, Ginette Clarke, Paul Cooper, Jo Crawford, Ronnie Cush, Ronnie Hollis, Di Langford, Roy Macready, Roger Martin, Verity Anne Meldrum, Marsha Miller, Yasmin Pettigrew, Martin Ransely, George Savvides, James Stephens, David Telfer, Helen Webb, Major Wiley and Eilian Wyn (Demonstrators)
Run-time: 116mins

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