I, Claudius: Fool's Luck
10:55 pm - 11:50 pm, Wednesday, August 26 on BBC Four (9)
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Fool's Luck
Season 1, Episode 10
The Praetorian Guard hold Claudius under protective custody as the Senate debates the return of the Republic. Messalina enjoys the trappings of power and talks her husband into recalling Appius Silanus from Spain so he can marry her mother, and the engineers are ordered to survey Ostia for all weather harbour improvements
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Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Derek Jacobi
(Actor)
.. Claudius
Neal Arden
(Actor)
.. Cestius
Lyndon Brook
(Actor)
.. Appius Silanus
Bernard Hill
(Actor)
.. Gratus
Geoffrey Hinsliff
(Actor)
.. Rufrius
James Faulkner
(Actor)
.. Herod
Sheila White
(Actor)
.. Messalina
Norman Eshley
(Actor)
.. Marcus Vinicius
James Fagan
(Actor)
.. Asprenas
Sam Dastor
(Actor)
.. Cassius Chaerea
Moira Redmond
(Actor)
.. Domitia
Bernard Hepton
(Actor)
.. Pallas
John Cater
(Actor)
.. Narcissus
John Bennett
(Actor)
.. Xenophon
George Little
(Actor)
.. Tortius
C Lethbridge Baker
(Actor)
.. Protector
Amanda Kemp
(Actor)
.. Midwife
Terry Francis
(Actor)
.. Slave
Robert Graves
(Writer)
Jack Pulman
(Dramatised by)
Martin Lisemore
(Producer)
Herbert Wise
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Derek Jacobi
(Actor)
.. Claudius
Born:
October 22, 1938
in
London
Best Known For:
His classical roles.
Early-life:
Derek George Jacobi was born on October 22, 1938, in Leytonstone, east London. His mother was a secretary and his father managed a department store. He is an only child. He became hooked on movies and dancing as a boy and played Hamlet at school, with the production later appearing at the Edinburgh Festival. During his time there, he was invited to meet an agent, who told him that, at 18, he was too young to become a star. Jacobi spent the next three years studying history at Cambridge, where he befriended Ian McKellen and Trevor Nunn.
Career:
Following acclaimed performances at university, Jacobi joined Birmingham Rep. He was spotted by Laurence Olivier, who invited him to join the National Theatre Company. He made his film debut alongside Olivier in 1965's Othello. Since then, Jacobi has continued to make acclaimed appearances on stage and screen. Among his films are The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, Love Is the Devil, Gladiator, Gosford Park, The King's Speech and Hereafter. He inspired Kenneth Branagh to become an actor and worked alongside him in Henry V, Hamlet and Dead Again. Jacobi won a Bafta for I, Claudius in 1977, starred in the medieval-set series Cadfael, played The Master in Doctor Who, is the narrator of In the Night Garden and scored a surprise hit with Last Tango in Halifax.
Quote:
'As an actor conscious that you are in a theatre, you still have to make it look as spontaneous as if you did not know that you are being watched by 1,000 pairs of eyes.'
Trivia:
He received a knighthood in 1994.
Neal Arden
(Actor)
.. Cestius
Lyndon Brook
(Actor)
.. Appius Silanus
Bernard Hill
(Actor)
.. Gratus
Born:
December 17, 1944
in
Manchester
Best Known For:
Playing Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff.
Early-life:
Bernard Hill was born on December 17, 1944, in Manchester. He caught the acting bug at an early age and went on to hone his craft at Manchester Polytechnic, where he graduated with a theatre diploma in 1970. It took another three years before he made his TV breakthrough in the 1973 play Hard Labour.
Career:
Hill went on to become one of British TV's most reliable character actors. The projects I, Claudius, Professional Foul and Pit Strike brought him great acclaim. However, it was Alan Bleasdale's 1980 series Boys From the Blackstuff that made him a household name. It brought him to the attention of director Peter Jackson who considered him for the role of Gandalf, before eventually casting him as King Theoden in The Lord of the Rings movies, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. On stage, Hill has appeared in A View from the Bridge, The Cherry Orchard and Macbeth. His other high profile roles on the big screen include parts in Gandhi, Shirley Valentine, The Bounty, The Ghost and the Darkness, Titanic, The Scorpion King, Wimbledon and Joy Division. On the small screen, he played David Blunkett in A Very Social Secretary to great acclaim.
Quote:
'Gizza job'.
Trivia:
Hill voiced a character in the video game Fable III.
Geoffrey Hinsliff
(Actor)
.. Rufrius
James Faulkner
(Actor)
.. Herod
Sheila White
(Actor)
.. Messalina
Norman Eshley
(Actor)
.. Marcus Vinicius
James Fagan
(Actor)
.. Asprenas
Sam Dastor
(Actor)
.. Cassius Chaerea
Moira Redmond
(Actor)
.. Domitia
Bernard Hepton
(Actor)
.. Pallas
John Cater
(Actor)
.. Narcissus
John Bennett
(Actor)
.. Xenophon
George Little
(Actor)
.. Tortius
C Lethbridge Baker
(Actor)
.. Protector
Amanda Kemp
(Actor)
.. Midwife
Terry Francis
(Actor)
.. Slave
Robert Graves
(Writer)
Jack Pulman
(Dramatised by)
Martin Lisemore
(Producer)
Herbert Wise
(Director)
