Bookmark (1983) | Full Cast

Stars (in credits order)

Ian Hamilton

Self - Presenter

Simon Winchester

Self - Presenter

A.N. Wilson

Self

Ronald Pickup

Narrator

Brian Cox

Self - Narrator

Anna Massey

Imogen Smallwood

Lyndall Gordon

Self - Charlotte Bronte Biographer

Jilly Cooper

Self

Malcolm Bradbury

Self

Salman Rushdie

Self

Graham Swift

Self

Fay Weldon

Self

Martin Amis

Self

Seamus Heaney

Self

William Boyd

Self

Caryl Phillips

Self

Christopher Bigsby

Self - Reporter

Victoria Glendinning

Self - Biographer of Trollope

David Lodge

Self

Roald Dahl

Self

Carlos Fuentes

Self

James Clavell

Self

Margaret Forster

Self

Al Alvarez

Self

Ian McEwan

Self

Howard Jacobson

Self

David Troughton

Self - Narrator

John Tusa

Self - Reporter

Patricia Routledge

Barbara Pym

Maureen Lipman

Enid Blyton

Anne Rice

Self

Benjamin Woolley

Narrator

Roddy Maude-Roxby

Reader

Wilbert Awdry

Self

Audrey Hall

Self - Presenter

Tony Blackburn

Narrator

Andrew O'Hagan

Self - Presenter

Selina Scott

Self - Presenter

Marcia Warren

Dora Caldicote

Kenan Çelik

The Boy

Aldous Huxley

Self

Jayne Ashbourne

Charlotte Bronte

Nathalie Santillana

Richard Allen

Peter Capaldi

James Boswell

John Bott

Bishop Grote

Alana Ryan Behan

Child Enid

Lale Mansur

The Mother

John Carey

Self

Juliet Barker

Self - Author of The Brontes

Ross Kemp

Reader

Susan Wooldridge

Belinda

Ian MacKenzie

Thomas

Erdinç Akbas

The Father

Sybille Bedford

Self

Brian Sibley

Self - Wilbert Awdry's Biographer

Ian McNeice

Vicar of Finstock

Virginia Grainger

Theresa

Berhan Simsek

The Uncle

David Bradshaw

Self

Susan Foister

Self - Curator, The National Gallery

Ann Penfold

Allegra Gray

Luke Waterfield

Hanly

Tomris Incer

The Grandmother

Steve Jones

Self

Philippe Garner

Self - Photographic Images Director

Mary Wimbush

Mrs Bone

Benjamin Guy

Wishing Chair Peter

Hikmet Karagöz

The Schoolteacher

Stephen Spender

Self

Dyddgu Pritchard-Owens

Self - Bronte Society Member

Rosemary Debnam

Self - Editor 'The Railway Series'

Ann Windsor

Miss Lathbury

Emily Riley

Wishing Chair Mollie

Mine Çayiroglu

The Bride

Yehudi Menuhin

Self

Pearl Cragg

Self - Bronte Society Member

Hellena Taylor

Teen Enid

Hugh Dickson

Dr Simpson

Can Kolukisa

The Letter-Writer

Matthew Huxley

Self

Helen MacEwan

Self - Bronte Society Member

Avril Elgar

Lady on bus

Anthony Hamblin

Young Brian Thompson

Osman Görgen

The Tailor

Richard Linnett

Self

Colin Harding

Self, Curator, The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television

Norman Bird

Man on bus

Viveka Dagnell

George

Huston Smith

Self

Michael Rosen

Self - Children's Writer

Trevor Willetts

Self - Bronte Society Member

Malcolm Rennie

Hugh Pollock

David King

Larkin readings

Laura Archera Huxley

Self

George Hauton

Self - Bronte Society Member

Victoria Button

Self - Picture Restorer

Hilary Sesta

Teacher

Liz Turner

Self - Reed Children's Books

Keith Hooley

Self - Bronte Society Member

Christopher Owen

Consultant

Henry Harvey

Self

Ingrid Selberg

Self - Managing Director Reed Children's Books

Alexandra Lesley

Self - Bronte Society Member

Danny Webb

Dick Hughes

Hazel Holt

Self

Robert Barnard

Self - Vice Chairman, Bronte Society

Clare Clifford

Dorothy Richards

Penelope Lively

Self

Tadaaki Okada

Self - Sony Creative Products Inc

Dudley Green

Self - Chairman, Bronte Society

Valentine Pelka

Stranger

Tom Maschler

Self

Michael Harrow

Self - Forensic Imagery Analyst

Mikiko Adachi

Self - Fuji Television Network Inc

Hilary Pym

Self

Jack Hodd

Peter

Lynn Scott

Self - Toy Shop Owner

Nick Bayly

Reporter

Len Rhys

Self - Retired Steam Engine Driver

Peter Clay

Kenneth Darrell Waters

Will Wyatt

Self

Dave Atkins

Lorry Driver

Brian Glover

Self - Guest

J.M. Coetzee

Self - Winner

Shirley Conran

Self - Guest

Max Morgan Witts

Self

Gordon Thomas

Self

Patchy Wheatley

Self

Anthony Holden

Self - Reporter

Bernard Levin

Self - Guest

Michael Delahaye

Self - Interviewer

John Fuller

Self - Nominee

Andrew Boyle

Self

Mel Smith

John Self

James Baldwin

Self

William Golding

Self

Germaine Greer

Self

Maeve Binchy

Self

Peter Ackroyd

Self

Roger McGough

Self

V.S. Naipaul

Self

James Fenton

Self

Bill Buford

Self

Peter Porter

Self

Craig Raine

Self

Janet Morgan

Self

Maggie Gee

Self

Peter Levi

Self

Bryan Appleyard

Self - Contributor

Helen Gardner

Self

Ring Lardner Jr.

Self

Mario Vargas Llosa

Self

Primo Levi

Self

Simon Gray

Self

Italo Calvino

Self

Rosamond Lehmann

Self

Claire Tomalin

Self - Reporter

Stratis Haviaras

Self

Morley Callaghan

Self

V.S. Pritchett

Self

Janni Howker

Self

Susan Cheever

Self

Shiva Naipaul

Self - Interviewer

Clive Sinclair

Self - Novelist

Nancy Milford

Self

Malcolm Cowley

Self

Robert Gittings

Self

Shirley Hughes

Self

Alison Lurie

Self

Matthew Bruccoli

Self

Jo Manton

Self

Tony Doyle

ACTOR

James Greene

ACTOR

John Osborne

Self

Pauline Delaney

ACTOR

Ruth Rendell

Self

Colin Wilson

Self

Jonathan Raban

Self

William Trevor

Self

Joseph Brodsky

Self

Angus Wilson

Self

Ted Allbeury

Self

Edmund White

Self

H.R.F. Keating

Self

Simon Burt

Self

Robert Burchfield

Self

Timothy Mo

Self

Josef Skvorecký

Self

George Lamming

Self

John Wain

Self

Kazuo Ishiguro

Self

Malcolm Storry

Actor

Spalding Gray

Self

Clifford Rose

Actor

Gyearbuor Asante

Actor

David Hugh Jones

Self

Heather Tobias

Actress

Oleg Efremov

Self

Tom Paulin

Self

Alice Thomas Ellis

Self

Pat Barker

Self

Lucy Irvine

Self

Jennifer Johnston

Self

Robert McCrum

Self

Michel Tournier

Self

Don Mattera

Self

Adrian Mitchell

Self

Pat Rogers

Self

Harry Greene

Self

Jane Gardam

Self

Peter Taylor

Self

Peter Reading

Self

Nuruddin Farah

Self

Robert Towne

Self

Pat O'Connor

Self

Julius J. Epstein

Self

John Wells

Self

Frederic Raphael

Self

Philip Dunne

Self

Bruce Chatwin

Self

Peter Carey

Self

Tadeusz Konwicki

Self

Penelope Fitzgerald

Self

Monica Dickens

Self

Robert Coover

Self

Farrukh Dhondy

Self

Marilyn Butler

Self

Jack Davis

Self

Václav Havel

Self

Kate Millett

Self

Marge Piercy

Self

Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir

Self

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Self

Eva Figes

Self

Ann Oakley

Self

Francis Stuart

Self

Denis Donoghue

Self

Giannis Ritsos

Self

Helene de Beauvoir

Self

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Self

Menke Katz

Self

Stephen Fry

Readings

Andrew Davies

Self

J.G. Ballard

Self

Jack Williams

Self

Dorota Kwiatkowska

ACTOR

Nigel Williams

Self

Margaret Drabble

Self

Jonathan Powell

Self

Rose Tremain

Self

AFTM

Self

Dimitri Dostoevsky

Self

Paul Bailey

Self

Andrew Leahey & The Homestead

Self

2nd Grade

Self

Heap

Self

Don Warrington

Macbeth

Lynn Farleigh

Lady Macbeth

P.D. James

Self

Philip Bowen

Duncan

Francis Wright

ACTOR

Guy Edwards

Child

David Oliver

Child

Henry Feagins

Child

Carlton Chance

Banquo

Radovan Karadzic

Self

Adam Dean

Child

Gillian Baverstock

Self

Katy Feeney

ACTOR

James Moreno

Child

Aisling Magill

Child

Eliza Grainger

Child

Rebecca Varney

Child

Winston Eade

Child

Conrad Ryan

Child

Jamie Neill

Child

Stacy Wannell

Child

Barbara Stoney

Self

Fabian McDougall

Child

Sheila Ray

Self - Librarian

Eva Freeman

Child

Amy Vaughan-Teague

Child

Shahin Charania

Child

Jahzel Bonaparte

Child

Seema Nathoo

Child

Georgina Gavriel

Child

Lucy Feagins

Child

Joseph Sphinx

Child

Jack Mapanje

Self

Michlyn Reyes

Child

Ben Farrer

Child

George Greenfield

Self

Ben Jefferies

Child

Nathan Allen

Child

Zara Warshal

Child

Camilla Cope

Child

Barry Byrne

Child

Anna Gavriel

Child

Rachel Simm

Child

Ansell Broderick

Macduff

Emma Fieldes

Child

Kelly James

Child

Anthony Hopkins

Gwyn Thomas

Ian McDiarmid

George Devine

Jim Carter

Detective

Robert Pugh

Gwyn's father

Renée Asherson

Miss Agnew

Susan Fleetwood

Harriet

Nicholas Le Prevost

William

Abigail Hopkins

Nana Thomas

John Grillo

Dr. Bronowski

Victoria Plucknett

Mrs. Metcalfe

John Major

Self

Sue Roderick

Lyn Thomas

Brendan O'Hea

Gwyn at 17

Sion Probert

Metcalfe

Robin Leigh Pemberton

Self

Joanna Trollope

Self

Gavin Ashcroft

Gwyn at 13

Shena Mackay

ACTOR

James Arlon

Clarke

Roman Polanski

Self

John Gielgud

Self

Andrée Bernard

Sylvia Plath

Britt Allcroft

Self

Ted Field

Self

A.S. Byatt

Self - Novelist

William Styron

Self

David Mitton

Self

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Self

Rumer Godden

Self

Erica Jong

Self

Ben Okri

Self - Poet & Novelist

Christopher Awdry

Self

Richard Van Allan

Self

Peter Edwards

Self - Illustrator of 'The Railway Series'; 1963-72

Hilary Fortnam

Self

Dora Militaru

Self

Ian Gibson

Self - Writer

Kiki von Fraunhofer-Kosinski

Self

Ian Judge

Self

Soledad Puértolas

Self - Novelist

Robert Mann

Self - Marketing Director of Ertl Europe Ltd

Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda

Self

Eulalio Ferrer

Self - Quixote Museum Guanajuato

John Welch

Self - Sales Rep 'The Railway Series' 1949-56

Rosario Trujillo

Self

Anthony Legge

Self

David Weir

Self

Eric Marriott

Self - Editor 'The Railway Series' 1947-72

Bill Cunningham

Self

Dotun Adebayo

Publisher

Jimmy Barrett

Self

Jackie Metz

Self

John Calder

Self

Georges Belmont

Self

Deirdre Hamilton

Self

Mackenzie Wynn

Biker

Barry Pateman

Self

Frank Mitchell

Self

Peter Cave

Self

Jean Camus

Self

Dominique Marcas

Christiane Faure

Catherine Camus

Self

Patricia Blake

Self

Self (under pseudonym)

Pierre Tabard

Self

Francis Jeanson

Self

Catherine Sellers

Self

Frederic Le Du

ACTOR

Ahmed Bouallagui

ACTOR

Nacera Marchese

ACTOR

Robert Gallimard

Self

Roger Quilliot

Self

Rose Yolande Fernandez

ACTOR

Farid Bendoumi

ACTOR

Christiane Faure

Self

Blanche Balain

Self

Olivier Todd

Self

Carl-Gustav Bjurgstrom

Self

Julian Glover

Narrator

Simon Russell Beale

Readings

Quentin Crisp

Self

Ranulph Fiennes

Self - Explorer

Saul Bellow

Self - Interviewee

Louis de Bernières

Self

Michael Holroyd

Self - Biographer of George Bernard Shaw

Neal Ascherson

Self

Morris Kestelman

Self - Central School of Art, 1936-1971

Andrew Motion

Self - Biographer of Keats

Liz Jensen

Self - Novelist

Margaret McCall

Self

David Daiches

Self

John Batchelor

Self - Mervyn Peake's Biographer

Andrew Noble

Self

Tony Bridge

Self - Friend and Former Artist

Iain Brown

Self - National Library of Scotland

Edith Guille

Self - Sarkese

Karl Miller

Self

Sebastian Peake

Self - Mervyn Peake's Son

Roy Porter

Self

George Guille

Self - Sarkese

Pat Toplis

Self - Sarkese

Fabian Peake

Self - Mervyn Peake's Son

Maurice Temple-Smith

Self - Mervyn Peake's Publisher

Tom Pocock

Self - Journalist

Clare Penate

Self - Mervyn Peake's Daughter

Geraldine McEwan

Readings

Michael Angelis

UK Thomas Narratoruncredited

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