Noble House (1988– )

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Ian Struan Dunross is chairman of Struan & Co, the oldest and largest of the British-East Asia trading companies. To the Chinese, that also makes him "Tai-Pan" ("supreme leader") of the "... See full summary »

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Season:

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Year:

1988
Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination. See more awards »
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Cast

Series cast summary:
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 Ian Dunross (4 episodes, 1988)
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 Casey Tcholok (4 episodes, 1988)
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 Linc Bartlett (4 episodes, 1988)
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 Quillan Gornt (4 episodes, 1988)
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 Orlanda Ramos (4 episodes, 1988)
Khigh Dhiegh ...
 Four Finger Wu (4 episodes, 1988)
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 Supt. Armstrong (4 episodes, 1988)
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 Philip Chen (4 episodes, 1988)
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 Claudia Chen (4 episodes, 1988)
John Van Dreelen ...
 Jacques DeVille (4 episodes, 1988)
Ping Wu ...
 Paul Choy (4 episodes, 1988)
Kay Tong Lim ...
 Brian Kwok (4 episodes, 1988)
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 Ah Tam (4 episodes, 1988)
Damien Thomas ...
 Lando Mata (4 episodes, 1988)
Dudley Sutton ...
 Commissioner Roger Crosse (4 episodes, 1988)
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 Tsu-Yan (4 episodes, 1988)
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 Venus Poon (4 episodes, 1988)
Steven Vincent Leigh ...
 John Chen (4 episodes, 1988)
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 Sir Geoffrey Allison (4 episodes, 1988)
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 Alastair Struan (4 episodes, 1988)
Harris Laskawy
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Leon Lissek ...
 Christian Toxe (4 episodes, 1988)
Keith Bonnard ...
 Tip Tok-Toh (4 episodes, 1988)
Edward Petherbridge ...
 Jason Plumm (4 episodes, 1988)
Bennett Ohta ...
 Richard Kwang (4 episodes, 1988)
Brian Fong ...
 Goodweather Poon (4 episodes, 1988)
Helen Funai ...
 Mrs. Kwang (4 episodes, 1988)
(4 episodes, 1988)
David Shaughnessy
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 Baldhead Kin (4 episodes, 1988)
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 Havergill (4 episodes, 1988)
David Henry ...
 Bruce Johnjohn (4 episodes, 1988)
George Innes ...
 Travkin (4 episodes, 1988)
Choy-Ling Man ...
 Mary Li (4 episodes, 1988)
Pip Miller ...
 Inspector Smyth (4 episodes, 1988)
Duncan Preston ...
 Pugmire (4 episodes, 1988)
Michael Siberry ...
 Linbar Struan (4 episodes, 1988)
Vincent Wong ...
 Lim Chu (4 episodes, 1988)
Galen Yuen ...
 Smallpox Kin (4 episodes, 1988)
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Ian Struan Dunross is chairman of Struan & Co, the oldest and largest of the British-East Asia trading companies. To the Chinese, that also makes him "Tai-Pan" ("supreme leader") of the "Noble House". Unfortunately, with his power, he inherits ancient promises, dark secrets and deep financial problems on a small island full of people who want to see Struan's fall so they can become the Noble House. Dunross' worst enemy is the vicious Quillan Gornt, a lesser tai-pan, and he's doing everything in his power to bring the Noble House to ruin. Drawn into the fight between Gornt and Dunross is an upstart American billionaire who tries to gain a foothold on the Hong Kong market and has made a deal to steal something that will give him power, even over the Noble House. Unfortunately, that something has fallen into the hands of a powerful Chinese overlord. "Everybody was watching [and cheating on] everybody." Who will succeed in the end? Written by Harald Mayr <marvin@bike.augusta.de> and Phoenix Roberts

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21 February 1988 (USA)  »

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James Clavell's Noble House  »

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Trivia

Struans was founded in 1841 and celebrates its 150th anniversary - meaning the miniseries takes place in 1991. Since the mini-series was broadcast in 1989, that makes it a 'future history' story and, by the strict definition, qualifies it as a science fiction film! See more »

Quotes

Ian Dunross: [speaking to Lim Chu, who had disabled Quillan Gornt's brakes] If I want some foreign devil's brakes buggered, I will order it. The Noble House has always maintained its pre-eminence by holding more honor than its competitors.
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Follows Tai-Pan (1986) See more »

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An excellent version of a classic book, marred by some poor casting
29 February 2004 | by (Auckland, New Zealand) – See all my reviews

The film (mini-series) ia very creditable attempt to capture the essence of Clavell's masterful book. John Rhys-Davies is the epitomy of Quillan Gornt and Pierce Brosnan doesn't do too badly either, but I can't imagine why he would fall for Deborah Raffin as K C Cholok who is bland, colourless and does not come across as a tough-negotiating business woman. The film sticks closely to the book and only omits non-central to the story items - russian spies etc. Nancy Kwan is still gorgeous and Julia Nickson is lovely (pity her acting lets her down though). The film is well worth a look even with a few failings.


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