The Assassin
- Summary
- 1960 BBC production of The Assassin by Irwin Shaw.
- Theatre play
- The Assassin by Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 29 May 1960
- Time
- 8.15-9.45pm
- Series
- Twentieth Century Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- John Jacobs
- Playwright
- Irwin Shaw (1913-1984)
- Designer
- Clifford Hatts
- Cast
John Bennett Steingel Joby Blanshard Defence Counsel Elwyn Brook-Jones Malassis Gaylord Cavallaro American Sergeant Charmian Eyre The Woman Joseph Furst Colonel von Kohl Dilys Hamlett Helene Mariotte Alan Keith David Stein Lloyd Lamble Haynes Renny Lister Christine Theodore Annabelle [or Annabel] Maule Sophie Vauquin Bartlett Mullins Popinot George Murcell Gannerac Richard Pasco (1926-) Robert de Mauny Donald Pleasance Admiral Vespery Guy Kingsley Poynter Lieut. Crane David Ritch French Lieutenant Alex Scott Lucien Gerard Nicholas Selby Prosecutor Maxwell Shaw The Guard Ewen Solon Andre Vauquin John Southworth Monsieur Jacques Peter Stephens General Kley Eric Thompson French Captain Keneth Thornett Boubard Margot van der Burgh Ida Stein Richard Warner General Roucheau Douglas Wilmer General Mousset
Additional details
- Play tags
- North Africa, as theme or setting; Second World War, as theme or setting; wartime, as theme or setting
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- The Assassin (BBC, 1960)
- Archive
- BBC Information and Archives [more information]
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Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 27 May 1960 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- illustrated listing, p. 9; article, p. 3
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