The White Falcon
- Summary
- BBC Television production of Neilson Gattey and Jordan Lawrence’s tragic romantic drama The White Falcon. Paul Rogers and Jeanette Sterke had also played the characters of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII at the Old Vic two years earlier, and the Radio Times reports that they had been keen to play the same leading parts in this tragic love-story (3 February 1956, p. 5).
- Theatre play
- The White Falcon by Neilson Gattey and Jordan Lawrence [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 5 February 1956
- Time
- 8.15pm (90 mins)
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Rudolph Cartier
- Playwright
- Neilson Gattey
- Playwright
- Jordan Lawrence
- Composer
- Edward German (music for the dances)
- Composer
- Elisabeth Lutyens (incidental music)
- Designer
- Stephen Taylor
- Choreographer
- Tutte Lemkow
- Dancer
- Louis Conrad
- Dancer
- Shirley Dixon
- Dancer
- Stanley Fleet
- Dancer
- Zohorah Gilbar
- Dancer
- John Gregory
- Dancer
- Geraldine Hill
- Dancer
- Olwen Hought
- Dancer
- Jennifer Kelly
- Dancer
- Rae Landor
- Dancer
- Barbara Lane
- Dancer
- Julian Pepper
- Dancer
- David Reynolds
- Dancer
- Arthur Salaman
- Dancer
- Joanna Seddons
- Dancer
- Terry Skelton
- Dancer
- Anatole Smirnoff
- Dancer
- Ken Tillson
- Dancer
- Barbara Viner
- Dancer
- Selina Wylie
- Cast
Jennifer Browne Jane Seymour Rupert Davies Thomas Cromwell Roger Delgado Mark Smeaton Marius Goring Doctor Cranmer Julia James The Duchess of Suffolk Kevin Kendall Page Eric Lander Sir Thomas Wyatt Enid Lindsey Mistress Saville Paul Rogers Henry VIII Margaretta Scott Catherine of Aragon Cyril Shaps Master Salmon Jeannette Sterke Anne Boleyn Patrick Troughton Cardinal Wolsey Grace Webb Gentlewoman Paddy Webster Maid-in-Waiting Julian Yardley Page
Additional details
- Play tags
- 16th-century setting; royalty; tragedy
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- The White Falcon (BBC, 1956)
- Archive
- BFI Research Viewing Service [more information]
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Print sources
- Title
- American Fantasy (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 12 February 1956, p. 10
- Title
- BFI Screenonline: The White Falcon (1956) (Website)
- Author/creator
- Oliver Wake (Author)
- Reference
- BFI Screenonline at http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1218638/index.html (accessed 12 November 2012)
- Title
- Jam Mañana (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Listener, 9 February 1956, pp. 226-27
- Title
- Radio Times, 3 February 1956 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article on p. 5 and listing illustrated with b&w image from the production on p. 12
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