Dandelion Dead (TV mini-series 1994)

TV Mini-Series - 60 min - Crime | Drama | Mystery

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This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye... See full summary »

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Michael Kitchen	...	Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong
	Sarah Miles	...	Catherine Armstrong
	David Thewlis	...	Oswald Martin
	Lesley Sharp	...	Constance 'Connie' Martin, née Davies
	Peter Vaughan	...	Dr. Hinks
	Diana Quick	...	Marion Glassford-Gale
	Bernard Hepton	...	Mr. Davies
	Don Henderson	...	Chief Inspector Crutchett
	Robert Stephens	...	Henry Vaughan
	Chloe Tucker	...	Eleanor Armstrong
	Alexandra Milman	...	Margaret Armstrong
	Joseph Steel	...	Pearson Armstrong
	Lucy Jenkins	...	Inez
	Roger Lloyd-Pack	...	Phillips
	Patrick Godfrey	...	Griffiths

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This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922. Written by Martin Underwood <imdb@martinunderwood.f9.co.uk>

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