Arthur Wing Pinero's Trelawny of the Wells at the Old Vic, The Cut, London SE1 January 1981 - the cast.
Yvonne Coulette (Miss Violet Sylvester) was born on 12 April 1919 in Fulham, as Yvonne Madge Coulette. She was an actress, known for Daniel Deronda (1970), Paul of Tarsus (1960) and ITV Sunday Night Theatre (1969). She was married to Denis Carey. She died on 2 August 2007 in London.
Lionel Hamilton (James Telfer) was born on 1 March 1911 in Holborn as Lionel Frederick B. Hamilton. He was a theatre director, actor and director of the Northampton Repertory Company in Northampton. Much of his work was conducted at the Northampton Repertory Theatre and the Kettering Savoy in the late 1940s and 1950s. He was known for David Copperfield (1966), 199 Park Lane (1965) and The Sullivan Brothers (1964). He died on 28 January 2002 in Northampton.
Lynne Miller (Rose Trelawny) is a British actress. Her first TV role was in 1974, but she is best known for the role of Cathy Marshall in The Bill, a TV series she appeared in from 1989 to 1996. Since that time she has appeared mostly on stage.
Robert Lindsay (Tom Wrench) is an English stage and TV actor. His first major role on TV was playing Wolfie Smith in Citizen Smith. He appeared in sitcoms, most notably as Ben Harper in My Family, playing the role for over a decade, and narrated TV adaptations of the children's television series Brambly Hedge. His film appearances include Fierce Creatures and Wimbledon. He appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in musical theatre. He won a BAFTA, a Tony Award, and two Olivier Awards for his work.
William Simpson Fraser (Sir William Gower) (5 June 1908-9 September 1987) was a Scottish actor who appeared on stage, screen and television for many years. In 1986 he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for his stage role in the play When We Are Married. Fraser often played irascible or belligerent characters on screen and had many roles as a policeman, soldier or judge. His first television appearance was on The Tony Hancock Show in 1956; he joined The Army Game as Sgt Claude Snudge, followed by a sequel called Bootsie and Snudge. He had a recurring role on Rumpole of the Bailey as Judge Roger Bullingham, an unsympathetic judge privately nicknamed "the Mad Bull" by defence barrister Horace Rumpole. During periods when Fraser was not acting, he ran a small sweetshop and tobacconists in Ilford Lane, Ilford, Essex.
Georgine Anderson (Miss Trafalgar Gower) started her television acting career in the early 1960s appearing in series such as No Hiding Place, Dixon of Dock Green, eight episodes of A Family at War for Granada Television, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for Scottish Television in 1978, a regular part in Take the High Road and a role in all six episodes of the 1985 adaptation of Blott on the Landscape. She has appeared three times on Coronation Street.
Josephine Margaret Warne (Mrs Mossop) (2 January 1938-13 January 2017), better known as Jo Warne, was an English actress, who played Peggy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, making her first appearance on 30 April 1991. She appeared in ten EastEnders episodes between April and July 1991, as part of Sam and Ricky's teen elopement storyline. Barbara Windsor later took on the full-time role of Peggy Mitchell until 2016.
Prim Cotton (Clara de Foenix) was born in Shrewsbury. She is an actress, known for The Professionals (1977), Coronation Street (1960) and Joint Account (1989). Prim Cotton was married to actor Edward Hardwicke until his death in May 2011.
June Ritchie (Aviona Bunn) came to prominence after starring in the role of Ingrid Rothwell opposite Alan Bates in the 1962 film adaptation of A Kind of Loving. In 1963, she starred with Margaret Rutherford in the comedy The Mouse on the Moon and appeared as a 'dance hostess' with Sylvia Syms in The World Ten Times Over. She also made two movies with Ian Hendry at around the same time, Live Now, Pay Later and This is My Street. After starting a family, she cut back on her acting roles, but later made a successful comeback on stage (most memorably in a high-profile musical adaptation of Gone with the Wind in London), and appeared in many British television dramas including The Mallens, The Saint, The Baron, Minder, Tales of the Unexpected, and Père Goriot. June Ritchie celebrated her 80th birthday in May 2021.