The Count of Solar (1992)

Film details

Featuring

Tyron Woolfe Paul Casey Jonathan Adams
Country

United Kingdom
Year

1992
Type

Television
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Set in France just before the French Revolution. A true story of Joseph, a young boy who is deaf and dumb and who tries to gain his inheritance as the Count of Solar. The case of the count of Solar was important becuase it established for the first time the viability of sign language, codifed and publicised by the Abbé de l'Epée.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Joseph
    
    Tyron Woolfe
  - Jean
    
    Paul Casey
  - physician
    
    Jonathan Adams
  - surgeon
    
    Peter Needham
  - aristocratic woman
    
    Samantha Best
  - 1st beau
    
    Paul Trussell
  - Monsieur Cazeaux
    
    Nick Reding
  - Countess of Solar
    
    Georgina Hale
  - Mére St Antoine
    
    Susan Jameson
  - Abbé de l'Epée
    
    David Calder
  - Caroline
    
    Hermione Norris
  - Philippe
    
    Tony Newton
  - Mademoiselle Debierre
    
    Janet Henfry
  - nurse
    
    Sally Mates
  - grandfather
    
    Charles Simon
  - judge
    
    Patrick Godfrey
  - Coudray
    
    John Standing
  - Doctor Gares
    
    Peter Benson
  - painter
    
    Andrew Kitchen
  - woman at exhibition
    
    Brimilcombe, Liz
  - old man at exhibition
    
    Arthur Hewlett
  - young man at exhibition
    
    Stuart Bradley
  - manservant
    
    Kim Joyce
  - maid
    
    Lisa Bowerman
  - Abée de l'Épée's boy
    
    Cornelius Brand
  - Abée de l'Épée's boy
    
    Jason Bowles
  - Abée de l'Épée's boy
    
    Mark Boxall
  - Abée de l'Épée's boy
    
    Daniel Cartwright
  - Abée de l'Épée's boy
    
    Scott Keable
  - Abée de l'Épée's boy
    
    Robert Lemesurier
  - Abée de l'Épée's boy
    
    Edmund Lepre
  - Abée de l'Épée's boy
    
    Mark McCormack
  - Abée de l'Épée's boy
    
    Gareth Morgan
  - Abée de l'Épée's boy
    
    Jason Newport
  - Abée de l'Épée's boy
    
    Daniel Ray
  - Abée de l'Épée's boy
    
    Christopher Sacre
  - Abée de l'Épée's boy
    
    Henry Skinner
  - Abée de l'Épée's boy
    
    Graeme Stewart
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Tristram Powell
  - Production Company
    
    BBC Films
  - Executive Producer
    
    Mark Shivas
  - Producer
    
    Ruth Caleb
  - Production Associate
    
    Carolyn Montagu
  - Production Manager
    
    Michael Jackley
  - Assistant Director
    
    Jamie Annett
  - Assistant Director
    
    Theresa Macinnes
  - Casting Adviser
    
    Anne Hopkinson
  - Screenplay
    
    David Nokes
  - Based on a 'When the Mind Hears' episode
    
    Harlan Lane
  - Director of Photography
    
    Nigel Walters
  - Camera Operator
    
    Simon Maggs
  - Visual Effects Design
    
    Steve Lucas
  - Graphic Design
    
    Alan Jeapes
  - Editor
    
    Ardan Fisher
  - Production Designer
    
    Bruce Macadie
  - Costume Designer
    
    James Keast
  - Make-up Design
    
    Fran Needham
  - Music
    
    John Keane
  - Sound Recording
    
    John Pritchard
  - Sound Re-recording
    
    Keith Marriner
  - Sound Editor
    
    Joe Walker
  - Historical Adviser
    
    Harlan Lane
  - Sign Language Adviser
    
    Wendy Ebsworth
  - Studio
    
    Ealing Studios