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A Voyage Round My Father (1982) (TV)
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19 April 1984 (USA)
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Actors, politicians and royalty pay respects to Sir John Mortimer
(From The Guardian - TV News. 17 November 2009, 8:42 AM, PST)
(From The Guardian - TV News. 17 November 2009, 8:42 AM, PST)
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What a Wonderful Elegy He Made for Himself
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Laurence Olivier | ... | Clifford Mortimer | |
| Alan Bates | ... | John Mortimer | |
| Jane Asher | ... | Elizabeth | |
| Elizabeth Sellars | ... | Mother | |
| Michael Aldridge | ... | Headmaster | |
| Alan Cox | ... | Son as a Boy | |
| Norman Bird | ... | Ham | |
| Albert Welling | ... | Japhet | |
| James Downer | ... | Reigate | |
| Susan Littler | ... | Miss Cox | |
| Gay Wilde | ... | Miss Baker | |
| Anthony Sharp | ... | Film Director | |
| Ann Davies | ... | A.T.S. Girl | |
| Judy Riley | ... | A.T.S. Girl | |
| Jonathan Newth | ... | Boustead |
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The house in which the family live is the house in which author John Mortimer and his parents lived, and which the author lives today. The gardening hat that Laurence Olivier wears belonged to John Mortimer's father.
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Headmaster:
You shall refer to us all by nicknames. I am Noah. My wife is Mrs. Noah. You are the animals. This is Ham and Japhet. Matron is Matey. And Mr. Bingo Ollard... Mr. Bingo Ollard is Mr. Bingo Ollard.
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Featured in Laurence Olivier: A Life (1982) (TV)
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Sir Laurence Olivier, the magnificent!! What a sweet comedy and the line to best ALL lines: "I ALWAYS get angry when I'm dying!" and he does. This was his swan song a few years before he died.
And how great it was to see two Anthonies play opposite on another, Alan Bates and Laurence Olivier. Father and son, it was so wonderfully sweet and funny. Of course, the beautiful English countryside wasn't half-bad either.
I love observing the native habits of the English. They are so funny and so well educated...at least they were back in those times before the fall of the Empire. To watch all the goings-on in the courtroom was well worth the price of the movie. U.S. courtroom behavior is so much more cut and dried with none of the unmeant and deliberate humor that was injected in this movie.
See this one, and understand that it can well be a primer for dying the good death.