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Family Portrait

Summary
1955 BBC production for Easter Day of the biblical drama Family Portrait by Lenore Jackson Coffee and William Joyce Cowen.
Theatre play
Family Portrait by Lenore Jackson Coffee (1896-1984) and William Joyce Cowen [more information]
Date of transmission
Sunday 10 April 1955
Time
8.45-10.30pm
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
Chloe Gibson
Playwright
William Joyce Cowen
Playwright
Lenore Jackson Coffee (1896-1984)
Designer
Stewart Marshall
Cast
Anne AllanNaomi
Graham AshleySimon
James Beattie
Van BoolenMordecai
Stephen BoydJoseph
Madge Brindley
Edward BrooksAmos
Paula ByrneReba
Donald Cashfield
Joyce ChancellorBeulah
Robert Checksfield
Michael CollinsNathan
Fay ComptonMary
Rosalie CrutchleyMary Magdalen
Glyn DavysFisherman
Richard FoatLeban
Ann Gow
Kim Grant
Kenneth HaighJudah
Dafydd Havard
Marjory HawtreyHepzibah
Joan HaythorneMary Cleophas
Christie HumphreyWoman of Jerusalem
Stuart HutchinsonDaniel
William LucasA Disciple
Jack MacGowranEben
Gillian MaudeAnna
Anthony NewlandsJames
Dandy NicholsSelima
Richard Price
Robert RaikesJoshua
Leslie Sands (1921-2001)Rabbi Samuel
John Scott
Charles StapleyAppius Hadrian
Peter StephensMendel
Sheila Stones
Peter Ventham
Michael WalkerDaniel
Juliet WinsorEsther
Ronald WoodMathias

Additional details

Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
biblical stories; Christianity

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 8 April 1955 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing, p. 14, with image; short article, p. 15

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