Learning on ScreenThe Valiant
- Summary
- BBC Television production of The Valiant, starring Eartha Kitt in the central (originally male) role.
- Theatre play
- The Valiant by Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 15 May 1956
- Time
- 8.30-9.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Anthony Pelissier
- Playwright
- Holworthy Hall
- Playwright
- Robert Middlemass
- Adaptor of Script
- Anthony Pelissier
- Designer
- Stephen Bundy
- Cast
Sonate Akran a minor part Chick Alexander a minor part Tamba Allen Joe Paris Mark Baker 3rd Policeman Roy Bartley a minor part Natalie Benesch Warden Holt Olive Cole a minor part Claude Collier a minor part Danny Daniels a minor part Sandra Francis Warden Holt’s Secretary Stephen Grey 1st Policeman Robert Henderson District Attorney Irene Jerome Mrs Paris Eartha Kitt Jane Dyke Mary Lainé Wardess Peter Mannering Counsel for the Defence Launce Maraschal Judge Edna McKenzie a minor part Randolph McKenzie a minor part Sonny McKenzie a minor part Alfred Mulock Lorry Driver Bill Nagy Prison Chaplain Stuart Nichol 2nd Policeman Buddy Pipp a minor part Gloria Russell a minor part Jimmy White a minor part
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Play tags
- American drama; murder; north of England, as theme or setting; prison; race relations
Print sources
- Title
- BBC Television: The Valiant (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 16 May 1956, p. 5
- Title
- Miss Eartha Kitt [...] (Newspaper article)
- Reference
- The Times, 10 May 1956, p. 3
- Title
- Radio Times, 11 May 1956 (Magazine)
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