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MOVIE

The Ruling Class

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1972

154 minutes (2 hrs 34 mins)

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Directed by

Peter Medak

Starring

Hugh Owens · Harry Andrews · Arthur Lowe · William Mervyn · Coral Browne · James Villiers

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release: 15th September 1972

France release: 10th May 1972

Ireland release: 9th February 1973

Certificates

US
PG

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Director

Role

Peter Medak

Directed By

Peter
O'Toole

Actor

Character

Hugh Owens

Toastmaster

Harry Andrews

13th Earl of Gurney

Arthur Lowe

Tucker

William Mervyn

Sir Charles Gurney

Coral Browne

Lady Claire Gurney

James Villiers

Dinsdale

Alastair Sim

Bishop Lampton

Hugh Burden

Matthew Peake

Peter O'Toole

Jack 14th Earl of Gurney

Michael Bryant

Dr. Herder

Henry Woolf

Inmate

Griffith Davies

Inmate

Oliver MacGreevy

Inmate

Kay Walsh

Mrs. Piggott-Jones

Patsy Byrne

Mrs. Treadwell

Carolyn Seymour

Grace Shelley

Neil Kennedy

Dr. Herder's Assistant

Nigel Green

McKyle

Cyril Appleton

McKyle's Assistant

Leslie Schofield

McKyle's Assistant

Joan Cooper

Nurse Brice

Declan Mulholland

Poacher

Graham Crowden

Truscott

James Grout

Inspector Brockett

James Hazeldine

Fraser

Ronald Adam

Lord

Julian DAlbie

Lord

Llewellyn Rees

Lord

Kenneth Benda

Lord Chancellor

Lewis Alexander

Lord

Ernest Blyth

Lord

Terence Conoley

Lord

George Hilsdon

Lord

Margaret Lacey

Midwife

Mike Reynell

Man Walking in Gurney Village

Robert Rietty

Various Roles

Guy Standeven

Peer

John Tatham

Lord

Fred Wood

Corpse