The Last Days of Pompeii | |
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Written by | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Carmen Culver |
Directed by | Peter R. Hunt |
Starring | Ned Beatty Brian Blessed Ernest Borgnine Olivia Hussey |
Music by | Trevor Jones |
Country of origin | Italy United Kingdom United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | David Gerber |
Producers | William Hill Richard Irving |
Cinematography | Jack Cardiff |
Editors | Michael Ellis Richard Marden |
Running time | 310 minutes |
Production companies | RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana David Gerber Productions Centerpoint Columbia Pictures Television |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Original release | May 6 – May 8, 1984 |
The Last Days of Pompeii is an Italian-American 1984 television miniseries filmed at Pinewood Studios and broadcast on ABC-TV and Rai, adapting the 1834 novel of the same name by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It was the second English-language adaptation of the book for film or television (previously adapted mainly in Italian; the 1935 RKO film was unrelated to the novel and the 1900 adaptation by Walter R. Booth, while the first cinematic adaptation in English was a short film).
Actor | Name | Description |
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Tony Anholt | Lepidus | A Roman noble; friend of Glaucus, Clodius and Sallust. |
Ned Beatty | Diomed | A wealthy merchant; married to Lucretia and the father of Julia. |
Joyce Blair | Lucretia | A wealthy Roman; married to Diomed and mother to Julia. |
Brian Blessed | Olinthus | A blacksmith and devout Christian. |
Ernest Borgnine | Marcus | A slave owner. |
Peter Cellier | Calenus | A priest of Isis; brother to Burbo. |
Nicholas Clay | Glaucus | A Greek noble; love interest to Ione. |
George Claydon | Philos | A Greek dwarf artist. |
Brian Coburn | Burbo | A tavern owner; brother of Calenus and married to Stratonice. |
Francesca Romana Coluzzi | Stratonice | A brothel owner; married to Burbo |
Brian Croucher | Melior | A gladiator. |
Lesley-Anne Down | Chloe | A prostitute with a young son; in love with Petrus. |
Christopher Ellison | Drusus | A Roman soldier. |
Howard Goorney | Joseph | A Christian missionary. |
Stephen Greif | Sporus | A gladiator. |
Olivia Hussey | Ione | A soon to be priestess of Isis; sister of Antonius, and love interest to Glaucus. |
Malcolm Jamieson | Petrus | A slave to Diomed; in love with Chloe. |
Howard Lang | Medon | A slave to Diomed; father of Lydon. |
Jill Melford | Lucinda | A Roman Noble. |
Catriona MacColl | Julia | A wealthy Roman; the daughter of Diomed and Lucretia and love interest to Clodius. |
Siobhán McKenna | Fortunata | A Roman noble; married to Gaius. |
Franco Nero | Arbaces | The Egyptian High Priest of the Cult of Isis. |
Laurence Olivier | Gaius | A former senator from Rome; married to Fortunata. |
Linda Purl | Nydia | A blind slave; love interest to Lydon. |
Anthony Quayle | Quintus | The head Magistrate of Pompeii. |
Michael Quill | Catus | An assistant to Olinthus; a child |
Duncan Regehr | Lydon | A gladiator and former slave; love interest to Nydia. |
David Robb | Sallust | A Roman noble; friend of Glaucus, Clodius and Lepidus. |
Barry Stokes | Gar | A Germanic gladiator. |
Gerry Sundquist | Clodius | A poor Roman noble and poet; love interest to Julia. |
Benedict Taylor | Antonius | A priest of Isis; brother of Ione. |
Marilu Tolo | Xenia | A prostitute; Calenus is a regular client of hers. |
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