"Great Expectations (2011 miniseries) Great Expectations is a three-part BBC television drama adaptation by Sarah Phelps of the Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel of the same name, starring Ray Winstone as Magwitch, Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham, Douglas Booth as Pip, Vanessa Kirby as Estella and David Suchet as Jaggers. The adaptation was first broadcast on British television over the Christmas period in 2011. Anderson's casting as Miss Havisham drew attention to the production due to her being a mere 43 compared to other actresses who have played her. However, critical reception was generally positive. In 2012, the PBS broadcast earned"
"goes on with her taking charge of her family's business before descending into vengeful madness, adopting Estella, and arranging the meeting of Estella and Pip. A young version of Miss Havisham is portrayed by Tuppence Middleton in the 2015 BBC TV series ""Dickensian"". The series gives her the first name Amelia and references the period of her life in the months running up to her wedding. Satis House is relocated to London within the same community as other characters from novels by Dickens. In film adaptations of ""Great Expectations"", Miss Havisham has been played by a number of distinguished actresses,"
"Miss Havisham – was written by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame and Kay Walsh. Guinness and Hunt reprised their roles in the film, but the film was not a strict adaptation of the stage version. The film was produced by Ronald Neame and photographed by Guy Green. It was the first of two films Lean directed based on Dickens' novels, the other being his 1948 adaptation of ""Oliver Twist"". The film is now regarded as one of Lean's best; in 1999, on the British Film Institute's Top 100 British films list, ""Great Expectations"" was named the 5th"
"in Dickens' novel. The unit for the location work for the film was based on a derelict naval fort on Darnett Ness Island in the River Medway. The script is a slimmed-down version of Dickens' novel. It was inspired after David Lean witnessed an abridged 1939 stage version of the novel, by Alec Guinness. Guinness had played Herbert Pocket, and Martita Hunt was Miss Havisham in the stage version of 1939. The script for the film was written by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame and Kay Walsh. David Lean approached Clemence Dane to write the script, but"
"Bleak House (1959 TV serial) Bleak House (1959) is the first BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of half-hour episodes first transmitted from 16 October 1959. It stars Andrew Cruickshank in the role of John Jarndyce, Diana Fairfax as Esther Summerson, Colin Jeavons as Richard Carstone, Elizabeth Shepherd as Ada Clare, Iris Russell as Honoria, Lady Dedlock, Timothy Bateson as William Guppy, John Phillips as Mr. Tulkinghorne, David Horne as Sir Leicester Dedlock, Richard Pearson as Inspector Bucket, Malcolm Knight as Jo, Eileen Draycott as"
"as Mrs. Medlock. The executive producer was Francis Ford Coppola. Dorothea Brooking adapted the book into several different television serials for the BBC: an eight-part serial in 1952, an eight-part serial in 1960 (starring Colin Spaull as Dickon) and a seven-part serial broadcast in 1975, which last has been released on DVD. ""Hallmark Hall of Fame"" filmed a TV adaptation of the novel in 1987, starring Gennie James as Mary, Barret Oliver as Dickon, and Jadrien Steele as Colin. Billie Whitelaw appeared as Mrs Medlock and Derek Jacobi played the role of Archibald Craven, with Alison Doody appearing in flashbacks"
"parts in the USA. After a three-part radio adaptation broadcast on the BBC Home Service and BBC Radio 4 in 1967, starring William Lucas, Josephine Tewson and Hilda Schroder, the first part of the novel was dramatised as a BBC 13-part television serial, starring Nigel Havers, Prunella Ransome and Glyn Houston, broadcast on Sunday evenings from 24 September 1978. The series was never repeated on any BBC channel, but was released on DVD in 2004. The BBC did not adapt the remainder of the series of novels, but a few years later they adapted two more of Delderfield's novels, ""To"
"that ""James Payn, a minor novelist, claimed to have given Dickens the idea for Miss Havisham – from a living original of his acquaintance. He declared that Dickens's account was 'not one whit exaggerated'."" Although it is documented Dickens encountered a wealthy recluse called Elizabeth Parker on whom it is widely believed he based the character, whilst staying in Newport, Shropshire, at the aptly named Havisham Court. ""Miss Havisham's Fire"" (1979, revised 2001) is an opera composed by Dominick Argento with a libretto by John Olon-Scrymgeour, based on Dickens' character. The entire story is told in flashback during an inquiry"
"Great Expectations (2012 film) Great Expectations is a 2012 British film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1861 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Mike Newell, with the adapted screenplay by David Nicholls, and stars Jeremy Irvine, Helena Bonham Carter, Holliday Grainger, Ralph Fiennes and Robbie Coltrane. It was distributed by Lionsgate. Nicholls adapted the screenplay after being asked to work on it by producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley, with whom he had worked on ""And When Did You Last See Your Father?"". Helena Bonham Carter was asked to appear as Miss Havisham by Newell, and accepted"
"Mrs. Rouncewell, Jerome Willis as Mr. Woodcourt, Michael Aldridge as Mr. George, Nora Nicholson as Miss Flite, Annette Carell as Mlle. Hortense, and Angela Crow as Charley. The complete series still exists. Bleak House (1959 TV serial) Bleak House (1959) is the first BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of half-hour episodes first transmitted from 16 October 1959. It stars Andrew Cruickshank in the role of John Jarndyce, Diana Fairfax as Esther Summerson, Colin Jeavons as Richard Carstone, Elizabeth Shepherd as Ada Clare, Iris Russell"
"Miss Havisham Miss Havisham is a character in the Charles Dickens novel ""Great Expectations"" (1861). She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life. She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella. Dickens describes her as looking like ""the witch of the place"". Although she has often been portrayed in film versions as very elderly, Dickens's own notes indicate that she is only in her mid-fifties. However, it is indicated in the novel that her long life away from the sunlight has aged"
"Miss Havisham Miss Havisham is a character in the Charles Dickens novel ""Great Expectations"" (1861). She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life. She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella. Dickens describes her as looking like ""the witch of the place"". Although she has often been portrayed in film versions as very elderly, Dickens's own notes indicate that she is only in her mid-fifties. However, it is indicated in the novel that her long life away from the sunlight has aged"
"Adaptations of Agatha Christie Adaptations of the works of Agatha Christie: Episodes of the television series ""Miss Marple"" include: Episodes of the television series ""Agatha Christie's Marple"" include: Episodes of the television series ""Agatha Christie's Poirot"" include: Many of Christie's novels have been adapted for BBC Radio over the course of several years. However the most prominent productions were the dramatisations of the Poirot and Miss Marple stories: Starring Jonathan Forbes as Mike and Lizzy Watts as Ellie Starring Hugh Bonneville as Nevile and Marcia Warren as Lady Tresselian Starring Melinda Walker as Emily Trefusis, Stephen Tompkinson as Charles Enderby,"
"at Golders Green Crematorium on 19 June and her ashes lie in the Ivor Novello Rose Bed. Martita Hunt Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 190013 June 1969) was an Argentine-born English theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range of powerful characters. She is best remembered for her performance as Miss Havisham in David Lean's ""Great Expectations"". Hunt was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 30 January 1900 to English parents Alfred and Marta (née Burnett) Hunt. She spent the first 20 years of her life in Argentina before she returned with her"
"appeared in many supporting roles in several popular British films such as ""Good Morning, Boys"" (1937), ""Trouble Brewing"" (1939), and ""The Man in Grey"" (1943). ""The Wicked Lady"" (1945) was an international success, but her next film role in David Lean's ""Great Expectations"" (1946) would be her most famous and most lauded. As Miss Havisham, she reprised her role from the 1939 stage adaptation by Alec Guinness which provided the inspiration and template for Lean's film. Her performance met with significant acclaim, and Roger Ebert later wrote in 1999 that she ""dominate[d] the [film's] early scenes, playing Miss Havisham as"
"Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,"" which received numerous Tony nominations in 2017. In 2016 BBC One's six-part drama based on the novel cast the 25-year-old English actress Lily James as Natasha Rostova, best known for her roles in ""Downton Abbey"" and Disney's live action ""Cinderella"". The ""Encyclopedia of Literature"" remarks that Natasha ""is undoubtedly Tolstoy's ideal woman,"" while the ""Academic American Encyclopedia"" describes her as ""the embodiment of impulsiveness and spontaneity..."". On the other hand, the transformation of her character towards the end of the novel from a joyous, spirited 'waif-like' beauty into a plump, rather slatternly woman,"
"Paola Dionisotti Paola Dionisotti (; born 1946) is an actress active on stage and British television since 1975. A character actress best known on television for recurring roles as Lady Patricia Broughall in ""Forever Green"" and Aunt Nicholls in ""Harbour Lights"", she also has had prominent roles in ""Miss Marple"" and ""Midsomer Murders"". She is also known for playing Lady Waynwood in the HBO fantasy series ""Game of Thrones"". On the stage, she is noted for her Shakespearean roles. She starred in Michael Bogdanov's 1978 Royal Shakespeare Company production of ""The Taming of the Shrew"" at the Aldwych. In 2014,"
"Randolph Stow. Literature: Eliza Donnithorne features in the children's novel ""I Am Susannah"" by Libby Gleeson (Angus & Robertson, 1987). Performance art: ""Eliza Donnithorne Doesn't Cry"" by Zoe Mars was a karaoke installation at Camperdown Cemetery in 2012. Eliza Emily Donnithorne Eliza Emily Donnithorne (c.1826 – 1886) was an Australian woman best known as a possible inspiration for the character of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' 1861 novel ""Great Expectations"". Eliza Donnithorne was born at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and spent her early childhood in Calcutta where her father, James Donnithorne, worked for the East India Company"
"that Dickens' attitude backs Britain's exploitation of Middle East ""through trade and travel"", and that ""Great Expectations"" affirms the idea of keeping the Empire and its peoples in their place—at the exploitable margins of British society. However, the novel's Gothic, and Romance genre elements, challenge Said's assumption that ""Great Expectations"" is a realist novel like Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"". Dickens's novel has influenced a number of writers, Sue Roe's ""Estella: Her Expectations"" (1982), for example explores the inner life of an Estella fascinated with a Havisham figure. Miss Havisham is again important in ""Havisham: A Novel"" (2013), a book by"
"the film the cat was female and called Delilah. In 2005, it was part of the first season of the ITV series ""Agatha Christie's Marple"" which featured Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple, Zoë Wanamaker as Letitia Blacklock, Keeley Hawes as Phillipa Haymes, Elaine Paige as Dora Bunner, Cherie Lunghi as Sadie Swettenham, and Catherine Tate as Mitzi. While the basic plot is retained from the novel, most of the characters in this adaptation have been heavily altered. The novel was serialised in eleven parts in the ""Daily Express"" from Tuesday, 28 February to Saturday, 11 March 1950. Five instalments carried"
"marketed as ""Great Expectations"" to coincide with her role as Estella Havisham in David Lean's film of that name, based on Charles Dickens' 1861 novel. In England, this attracted the custom of then-Oxford University undergraduate Margaret Roberts, later British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who, a little daringly for the time, also shopped for ""push-up"" pink brassieres. In 1953, when Hobson starred in the musical ""The King and I"" in London, it was apparent that she had retained a Parisienne mix of ""chic"" and Boheminism. A ""Daily Mirror"" journalist described her ""pale, ladylike looks, her well-bred clothes ... she likes embroidery"
"Martita Hunt Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 190013 June 1969) was an Argentine-born English theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range of powerful characters. She is best remembered for her performance as Miss Havisham in David Lean's ""Great Expectations"". Hunt was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 30 January 1900 to English parents Alfred and Marta (née Burnett) Hunt. She spent the first 20 years of her life in Argentina before she returned with her parents to the United Kingdom to attend Queenwood Ladies' College in Eastbourne and then to train as"
"Lake are written in and the character of Hailey Preston is removed. The novel was the final adaptation for the BBC series ""Miss Marple"". Margaret Courtenay appeared in this adaptation as Miss Knight, having previously portrayed Dolly Bantry in the 1980 feature film version. ITV Studios and WGBH Boston produced another adaptation for the ""Marple"" television series starring Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple, with Joanna Lumley reprising her role as Dolly Bantry, Lindsay Duncan as Marina Gregg and Hannah Waddingham as Lola Brewster. Investigating the murder along with Miss Marple is Inspector Hewitt, played by Hugh Bonneville. This version, while"
"she played the tavern landlady Mistress Quickly in the acclaimed RSC production of ""Henry IV"" Parts One and Two. Paola Dionisotti Paola Dionisotti (; born 1946) is an actress active on stage and British television since 1975. A character actress best known on television for recurring roles as Lady Patricia Broughall in ""Forever Green"" and Aunt Nicholls in ""Harbour Lights"", she also has had prominent roles in ""Miss Marple"" and ""Midsomer Murders"". She is also known for playing Lady Waynwood in the HBO fantasy series ""Game of Thrones"". On the stage, she is noted for her Shakespearean roles. She starred"
"Deb McAndrew and directed by Conrad Nelson. The novel has also been adapted twice as a mini-series for British television, once in 1977 with Patrick Allen as Gradgrind, Timothy West as Bounderby, Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Sparsit and Edward Fox as Harthouse, and again in 1994 with Bob Peck as Gradgrind, Alan Bates as Bounderby, Dilys Laye as Mrs. Sparsit, Bill Paterson as Stephen, Harriet Walter as Rachael and Richard E. Grant as Harthouse. Hard Times (novel) Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The"
"a dramatisation starring Ian McShane and Angela Scoular. The 1970 film with Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff is the first colour version of the novel, and gained acceptance over the years though it was initially poorly received. The character of Hindley is portrayed much more sympathetically, and his story-arc is altered. It also subtly suggests that Heathcliff may be Cathy's illegitimate half-brother. In 1978 the BBC produced a five-part TV serialisation of the book starring Ken Hutchinson, Kay Adshead and John Duttine with music by Carl Davis; it is considered one of the most faithful adaptations of Emily Brontë's story. There"
"Eliza Emily Donnithorne Eliza Emily Donnithorne (c.1826 – 1886) was an Australian woman best known as a possible inspiration for the character of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' 1861 novel ""Great Expectations"". Eliza Donnithorne was born at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and spent her early childhood in Calcutta where her father, James Donnithorne, worked for the East India Company as master of the mint and later as a judge. Her mother was Sarah Elizabeth Donnithorne, nee Bampton. Sarah Donnithorne and the couple's two older daughters died during a cholera epidemic in the 1830s. In 1838, when Eliza"
"play ""The Duck House"", The show transferred to London's Vaudeville Theatre after a five-week tour. Chazen appeared on television as Ludmilla in ""Ambassadors"". In 2014, she appeared in the ""Sherlock"" episode ""The Sign of Three"", and on 19 June 2014, it was announced that she would be joining the cast of ""Holby City"". She recently appeared as Jessica in ""Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley"". In 2017 she played Ruth in The Girls at the Phoenix Theatre in the West End. Chazen is Jewish. Debbie Chazen Deborah Chazen (born 1 September 1971) is an English actress. She is best"
"aired on Christmas Day 2010 in the UK. The cast includes Dame Eileen Atkins as Princess Dragomiroff, Hugh Bonneville as Masterman, Jessica Chastain as Mary Debenham, Barbara Hershey as Mrs Hubbard, Toby Jones as Cassetti, and David Morrissey as Colonel Arbuthnot. The character Cyrus Hardman (the former American police officer turned private detective) has been largely amalgamated with the chauffeur Foscarelli (in as much as regards being the lover of the dead maid) and Dr Constantine (who in the novel is unrelated to the murders) becomes a co-conspirator. The main difference from the novel is the additional element of Poirot's"
"Dr Nicholson Madeline Smith as Moira Nicholson Doris Hare as Rose Pratt Joan Hickson as Mrs Rivington Roy Boyd as Alan Carstairs James Cossins as Henry Bassington-ffrench<br> Robert Longden as Badger Beadon Patrick Barlow loosely reworked Christie's novel as a two-hour television film starring Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple, who does not appear in the original novel. It was first transmitted on Wednesday, 15 June 2011, on ITV1. Among the major changes to the plot: The Castle Savage scenes were largely filmed at Loseley Park near Guildford — a 16th-century stately home in Surrey belonging to the More-Molyneux family. The"
"""Adrian Rawlins"" as Derek Turnball ""Graeme Garden"" as Matthew Broadribb ""Nemesis"" was adapted for radio dramatisation by BBC Radio 4 starring June Whitfield. It first aired in November–December 1998 and again in later years, including 2011 and 2013. ""June Whitfield"" as Miss Marple <br> ""George A. Cooper"" as Mr Rafiel<br> ""David Swift"" as Professor Wanstead<br> ""Louie Ramsay"" as Lavinia Glynne<br> ""Thelma Barlow"" as Anthea Bradbury-Scott<br> ""Mary Wimbush"" as Clotilde Bradbury-Scott<br> ""Jill Balcon"" as Miss Temple<br> ""Desmond Llewelyn"" as Archdeacon Brabazon<br> ""Tricia Hitchcock"" as Miss Cooke<br> ""Delia Lindsay"" as Miss Barrow<br> ""Molly Gaisford"" as Joanna Crawford ""Jane Whittenshaw"" as Cherry<br> ""Geoffrey"
"Lisa Dillon Lisa Dillon (née Stawiarski; born 1979) is an English actress. Dillon attended Bournemouth School for Girls and left in 1997. She began a degree in English Literature and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London but abandoned it when she won a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Whilst training at RADA, Dillon appeared in several productions staged there, including: ""Hamlet"" and ""The Tempest"" by William Shakespeare, ""The Devils"" by John Whiting, ""The Devil's Law Case"" by John Webster, ""Yentl"" by Leah Napolin and ""The Playboy of the Western World"" by J. M. Synge. Her"
"be broadcast by the BBC. Edmundson has adapted numerous literary classics for BBC Radio 4, including ""The Voyage Out"" in 2006, ""The Mayor of Casterbridge"" in 2008 and ""Sense and Sensibility"" in 2013. Edmundson has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2015. Helen Edmundson Helen Edmundson (born 1964) is a British playwright and screenwriter. She has won awards and critical acclaim both for her original writing and for her adaptations of various literary classics for the stage and screen. Edmundson was born in Liverpool, in 1964. Most of her childhood was spent in northern England, on"