Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)

Synopsis

Cast & Credits

• Cast

  • • Cleopatra

      Vivien Leigh

    • Julius Caesar

      Claude Rains

    • Apollodorus

      Stewart Granger

    • Ftatateeta

      Flora Robson

    • Pothinus

      Francis L. Sullivan

    • Rufio

      Basil Sydney

    • Britannus

      Cecil Parker

    • Theodotus

      Ernest Thesiger

    • 1st centurion

      Michael Rennie

    • Achillas

      Eustrel, Antony

    • Nubian slave

      Robert Adams

    • Lucius Septimius

      Raymond Lovell

    • Charmian, Cleopatra's lady attendant

      Olga Edwardes

    • Belzanor

      Stanley Holloway

    • major domo

      Percy, Esme

    • the Persian

      Alan Wheatley

    • Bel Affris

      Leo Genn

    • Ptolemy

      Anthony Harvey

    • Cleopatra's lady attendant

      Harda Swanhilde

    • 2nd centurion

      James McKechnie

    • boatman

      Holles, Anthony

    • 1st porter

      Charles Victor

    • 2nd porter

      Ronald Shiner

    • quayside sentinel

      John Bryning

    • 1st auxiliary sentinel

      John Laurie

    • 2nd auxiliary sentinel

      Charles Rolfe

    • 1st nobleman

      Felix Aylmer

    • 2nd nobleman

      Ivor Barnard

    • 1st guardsman

      Valentine Dyall

    • 2nd guardsman

      Charles Deane

    • [A.D.C. to Achillas]

      Shaun Noble

    • [Roman tax officer]

      Gerald Case

    • [high priest]

      Gibb McLaughlin

    • [special Roman centurion]

      Peter Lord

    • [special Roman officer]

      Billy Holland

    • [special Roman officer]

      Don Stannard

    • [special Roman officer]

      Ronald Davidson

    • [special Roman officer]

      Peter Lilley

    • [special Roman officer]

      Gordon Gantry

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      Anne Davis

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      Ingrid Puxon

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      Virginia Keiley

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      Mary Midwinter

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      Mary Boyle

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      Daphne Day

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      Zena Marshall

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      Agnes Bernelle

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      Joan Richards

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      June Black

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      Jill Carpenter

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      Jeanee Williams

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      Alice Calvert

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      Lilla Erulkar

    • [lady-in-waiting]

      Joan Hulley

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Princess Roshanara

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Margaret Fernald

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Mary Macklin

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Louise Nolan

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Rita Lancaster

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Dorothy Bramhall

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Jackie Daniels

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Toni Gable

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Babette Griffin

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Margaret Harvey

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Moya Iles

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Kay Kendall

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Hilda Lawrence

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Anne Sassoon

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Renee Gilbert

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Olwen Brookes

    • ['palace steps' lady/lady councillor]

      Anne Moore

    • [Egyptian lady]

      Cathleen Nesbitt

    • [Egyptian lady]

      Ena Burrill

    • [Egyptian lady]

      Marie Ault

    • [councillor]

      Cyril Jervis Walter

    • [councillor]

      Roy Ellett

    • [councillor]

      Michael Martin-Harvey

    • [councillor]

      Cecil Calvert

    • [councillor]

      Harry Lane

    • [councillor]

      Mackenzie Ward

    • [councillor]

      Barry Meaton

    • [councillor]

      Paul Croft

    • [councillor]

      Michael Cacoyannis

    • [councillor]

      Roy Russell

    • [councillor]

      Wilfred Walter

    • [councillor]

      Alan Lewis

    • [councillor]

      Charles Paton

    • [councillor]

      George Luck

    • [councillor]

      H.F. Maltby

    • [councillor]

      Hylton Allen

    • [palace official]

      Leonard Llewellyn

    • [palace official]

      Louis De Wohl

    • [assistant palace official]

      Bernard De Gautier

    • [harpist]

      Jean Simmons

    • [harpist's master]

      Russell Thorndyke

    • [Mithridates]

      Basil Jayson

    • [A.D.C. to Mithridates]

      Peter Bayliss

    • [Cleopatra's attendant]

      Abdul Wahab

    • [major domo's attendant]

      Chick Alexander

    • [angry boatman]

      Gerhardt Kempinski

    • [boatman 2]

      Harold Franklyn

    • [boatman 3]

      Charles Minor

    • [boatman 4]

      Andre Belhomme

    • [singing boatman]

      Don Kenito

    • [Roman sentinel 3]

      Hamilton Humphries

    • [coloured fan girl]

      Eve Smith

    • [coloured fan girl]

      Nantando De Villiers

    • [coloured fan girl]

      Roma Miller

    • [Ethiopian prince]

      Bernard Bright

    • [Ethiopian prince]

      B.Q. Alakija

    • [Bucinator]

      Bob Cameron

    • [.]

      Ras Prince Monolulu

    • [extra as spear carrier]

      Roger Moore

    • [stand-in for Claude Rains]

      Adrian Brunel

• Credits

  • Direction:

    • Directed by

      Gabriel Pascal

    • [Director for some Vivien Leigh scenes]

      Brian Desmond Hurst

    • [Assistant Director (1st)]

      Bluey Hill

    • [Assistant Director (2nd)]

      Philip Shipway

    • [Assistant Director (3rd)]

      Pat Kelly

    • [Assistant Director (3rd)]

      Bernard Lambert

    • [Assistant Director (3rd)]

      John Oldknow

    • [Assistant Director (3rd)]

      Lawrence G. Knight

    • [Continuity]

      Maggie Unsworth

    • [Continuity]

      Yvonne Axworthy

    Production:

    • [Production Company]

      Independent Producers

    • [Production Company]

      Pascal Film Productions

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      Eagle-Lion Distributors

    • Produced by

      Gabriel Pascal

    • General Manager of Production

      Tom White

    • [Production Manager]

      John F. Green

    • [Production Manager]

      Robert Foord

    • [Production Manager]

      Raymond Anzarut

    • [Production Secretary]

      Renée Glynne

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      D&P Studios

    Writing:

    • Script Editor

      Marjorie Deans

    • Scenario and Dialogue by

      Shaw, Bernard

    • [Screenplay]

      W.P. Lipscomb

    • Above the Title Credit [for Novel]

      Shaw, Bernard

    Photography:

    • Photography

      Young, F.A.

    • Photography

      Robert Krasker

    • Photography

      Jack Hildyard

    • Photography

      Jack Cardiff

    • Chief of Colour Control Department

      Natalie Kalmus

    • [Assistant Colour Consultant]

      Joan Bridge

    • [Camera] Operator

      Ted Scaife

    • [Focus Puller]

      H. Petty

    • [Focus Puller]

      Frank Kingston

    • [Technicolor Camera Technician]

      George Minassian

    • [Clapper Loader]

      Mike Brandt

    Stills:

    • [Stills]

      Wilfrid Newton

    Special Effects:

    • Matt[e] Shots

      Day, Percy

    • [Models]

      Douglas Woolsey

    • [Models]

      Henry Harris

    • [Models]

      George Blackwell

    • [Models]

      Bill Warrington

    Editing:

    • Editor

      Frederick Wilson

    • [Editor]

      Louis Loeffler

    • [Editor]

      Joan Warwick

    • [Assistant Editor]

      Pauline Gain

    • [Assistant Editor]

      Ron Brown

    • [Assistant Editor]

      Pamela Heinz

    Design:

    • Art Director

      John Bryan

    • [Assistant Art Director]

      William Hutchinson

    • [Draughtsman]

      Elven Webb

    • [Draughtsman]

      Don Picton

    • [Draughtsman]

      John Elphick

    • [Draughtsman]

      Herbert Westbrook

    • [Construction Supervisor]

      Harold Batchelor

    Costumes:

    • Decor and Costumes by

      Oliver Messel

    • [Miss Leigh's Costumes]

      Matilda Etches

    • [Wardrobe]

      Margaret Furse

    • [Wardrobe]

      Eleanor Abbey

    • [Wardrobe]

      Dorothy Edwards

    Make-up:

    • [Make-up]

      George Blackler

    • [Assistant Make-Up]

      Ernie Gasser

    • [Hairdresser]

      Barbara Barnard

    • [Wig Maker]

      Williams, Florrie

    • [Miss Leigh's Head-dresses]

      Hugh Skillan

    Music:

    • Music Composed by

      Georges Auric

    • [Music Played] With

      National Symphony Orchestra, The

    • [Music] Conducted by

      Muir Mathieson

    Sound:

    • Sound Recording

      John Dennis

    • [Sound Camera Operator]

      Peter T. Davies

    • Sound System

      Western Electric

    • [Boom Operator]

      Stanley Lambourne

    • [Boom Operator]

      Dennis Soutzos

    • [Boom Operator]

      Eric Clennell

    • [Boom Assistant]

      George Paternoster

    • [Boom Assistant]

      Peter Martingale

    • [Sound Maintenance Engineer]

      Wally Day

    • [Sound Assistant]

      Donald Bloxham

    • [Dubbing Crew]

      Gordon K. McCallum

    • [Dubbing Crew]

      G. Crowl

    • [Dubbing Crew]

      N. Gurney

    • [Dubbing Crew]

      Ken Rawkins

    • [Dubbing Crew]

      T. Kay

    • [Dubbing Editor]

      Kitty Spreckley

    • Dubbing

      Desmond Dew