Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy

Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
Genre	Historical drama
Written by	David Butler Alan Campbell-Johnson
Directed by	Tom Clegg
Starring	Nicol Williamson Janet Suzman
Composer	John Scott
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	6 episodes
Production
Producer	Judith de Paul
Running time	50 minutes
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	1986

Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was a British television series which first aired on ITV in 1986. It depicts Lord Mountbatten's time as Supreme Commander, South-East Asia in the Second World War, and then as Viceroy of India shortly after the war in the days leading up to Indian independence. The Film was shot in Sri Lanka.

Main cast

• Nicol Williamson ... Lord Louis Mountbatten
• Janet Suzman ... Lady Edwina Mountbatten
• Dreya Weber ... Pamela Mountbatten
• Wendy Hiller ... Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
• A.K. Hangal ... Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• Owen Holder ... King George VI
• David Lyon ... Lt Col Vernon Erskine-Crum
• Patrick Allen ... Claude Auchinleck
• Michael Byrne ... George Abell
• Sam Dastor ... Mahatma Gandhi
• Derek Reed ... Patrick Spens
• Nigel Davenport ... Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
• David Quilter ... Alan Campbell Johnson
• Ian Richardson ... Jawaharlal Nehru
• Nadim Sawalha ... Liaquat Ali Khan
• Tony Wredden ... Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• Saloni Kaur ... Indira Gandhi (née Nehru)
• Sumant Mastakaa ... C. Rajagopalachari
• Nitin Seth ... Rajendra Prasad
• John Rolfe ... Clement Attlee
• Zia Mohyeddin ... V. P. Menon
• Vladek Sheybal ... Muhammad Ali Jinnah
• Jeremy Sinden ... Ronald Brockman
• Nana Patekar ...Nathuram Godse
• Malcolm Terris ... Winston Churchill
• Minnie Boga ... Amrit Kaur
• Roger Hammond ... Cyril Radcliffe
• Sushma Seth ... Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
• Villoo Kapadia ... Fatima Jinnah

External links

Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy at IMDb