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Ironhand

Summary
1965 BBC Television production of John Arden’s Ironhand, his adaptation of Goethe’s Götz von Berlichingen.
Theatre play
Ironhand by John Arden [more information]
Date of transmission
Sunday 11 April 1965
Duration
105 mins
Series
Theatre 625
Channel
BBC2
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
Cedric Messina
Rudolph Cartier
Film Cameraman
Peter Sargent
Playwright
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Adaptor of Script
John Arden
Adaptor of Script
James Brabazon (1923-2007) (credited as ‘Story Editor’)
Designer
Richard Henry
Costume Supervisor
Olive Harris
Make-up Supervisor
Toni Chapman
Film Editor
Eric Brown
Cast
Kate BinchyMargaret
Michael BrennanMetzler
Peter ClaughtonDr Olearius
Denis ClearySievers
Ronald CruickshankSwiss Captain
Patricia DenysMaria
David DodimeadLerse
William DysartSecond Goetz Trooper
Nicholas EvansGeorg
Thomas GallagherPeasant
John Glyn-JonesBishop of Bamberg
Michael GoodliffeGoetz
Clive GrahamOfficer
Nicholas GrimshawSecond Commissioner
Marshall JonesFirst Bamberg Trooper
Roger JonesFirst Goetz Trooper
Barry KeeganSelbitz
Gertan KlauberLandlord
Graham LeamanServant
Stanley LeborSecond Bamberg Trooper
Jack LynnFirst Commissioner
Geoffrey MatthewsCrier
Michael MulcasterSelbitz Trooper
Ian OgilvyFranz
Roy PattisonSergeant
Edmund PurdomWeislingen
Jill SimcoxElisabeth
Stan SimmonsExecutioner
Derek SydneyCaptain
June TobinAdelheid
Jerome WillisSickingen
Edgar WrefordLiebetrant

Additional details

Notes
Cast list and credits taken from the extant recording in the BBC’s archive.
Play tags
16th-century setting; German drama; historical drama

Audiovisual sources

Title
Ironhand (BBC, 1965)
Archive
BBC Information and Archives [more information]
Address

White City
London
UK

Telephone

+44 (0)20 8008 2288

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/

Access

BBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.

Print sources

Title
Goethe Play Adaptation (Newspaper review)
Reference
The Times, 12 April 1965, p. 14
Title
Jack Russell’s Terrier (Newspaper review)
Author/creator
Maurice Wiggin (Reviewer)
Reference
Sunday Times, 18 April 1965, p. 24
Title
The Bard and the Box (Newspaper review)
Author/creator
T. C. Worsley (Reviewer)
Reference
The Financial Times, 14 April 1965, p. 28

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