The Great Mr Handel

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.

6.5

89 min

Cast

Wilfrid Lawson

as George Frideric Handel

Elizabeth Allan

as Mrs. Cibber

Malcolm Keen

as Lord Chesterfield

Michael Shepley

as Sir Charles Marsham

Max Kirby

as Frederick, Prince of Wales

Hay Petrie

as Phineas

Morris Harvey

as John Heidegger

A.E. Matthews

as Charles Jennens

Frederick Cooper

as Pooley

Andrew Leigh

as Captain Coram

Robert Atkins

H.F. Maltby

Ivan Samson

Charles Groves

Alfred Sangster

D.J. Williams

as Leader of performance wreckers

Michael Hunt

as The Kytch Boys

Alan Wren

as The Kytch Boys

Amy Dalby

Trefor Jones

as Singer

Alfred Harris

Dorothy Vernon

Charles Doe

Frank Atkinson

as Permobble

Leonard Sharp

Judith Nelmes

Jean Stanley

Victor MacLure

Hyma Beckley

as Man Buying Oranges

Maureen Chamberlain

as Child

Toni Gable

as Lady

Kenneth Griffith

Martita Hunt

as Chorister

Gladys Ripley

as Mrs. Cibber (singing voice)

Director

Norman Walker