Volpone
- Summary
- 1959 BBC Television production of Volpone by Ben Jonson, with Donald Wolfit in the role he had played many times on the stage. The production also used his acting version as the basis of the script.
- Theatre play
- Volpone by Ben Jonson [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 16 June 1959
- Time
- 9.30-11.15pm
- Series
- Television World Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Stephen Harrison
- Playwright
- Ben Jonson
- Adaptor of Script
- Donald Wolfit (the Radio Times states that the script was ‘adapted for television from Sir Donald Wolfit’s acting version’)
- Designer
- Reece Pemberton
- Cast
Carl Bernard Voltore, the Vulture Bernard Brown Bonario Erik Chitty (1907-1977) Corbaccio, the Raven Leonard Cracknell unnamed part Aubrey Danvers-Walker unnamed part Michael Danvers-Walker unnamed part Dennis Edwards Peregrine Jane Griffiths Celia Thomas Hare Nano Christopher Hodge unnamed part Richard Holden unnamed part Philip Holles Notario Esmond Knight Corvino, the Crow David Ludman unnamed part Stanley Platts unnamed part Keith Pyott First Magistrate John Quarmby unnamed part Lee Richardson unnamed part Ray Roberts unnamed part Neil Robinson unnamed part Terence Soall Third Magistrate John Southworth Androgyno Robert Webber Second Magistrate John Wentworth Sir Politick Would-Be Donald Wolfit Volpone, the Fox Aubrey Woods Castrone John Wynyard Mosca, the Fly
Additional details
- Play tags
- 17th-century setting; comedy; Italian drama; Jacobean drama
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- Volpone (BBC, 1959)
- Archive
- BBC Information and Archives [more information]
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Print sources
- Title
- Donald Wolfit in BBC’s Production of Volpone (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 17 June 1959, p. 3
- Title
- Fox and Geese (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 21 June 1959, p. 17
- Title
- Radio Times, 12 June 1959 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 11; article with photograph, p. 4
- Title
- Sir Donald Wolfit as Volpone (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 17 June 1959, p. 7
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