The Fool
Christine Edzard1990-12-07
7
140 min
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Cast
| Name | Character | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Derek Jacobi | Mr. Frederick / Sir John | Unowned |
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Paul Brooke | Lord Paramount | Unowned |
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Julian Firth | Unowned | |
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John Tams | Unowned | |
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Ian Targett | Unowned | |
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Paddy Ward | Unowned | |
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Jo Warne | Unowned | |
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Chris Whittingham | Unowned | |
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Rory Murray | Henry Ottaway | Unowned |
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Corin Redgrave | Sir Thomas Neathouse | Unowned |
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Sally Ashby | Unowned | |
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Brenda Bruce | Unowned | |
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Cindy Oswin | Unowned | |
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Bernard Padden | Unowned | |
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Emma Piper | Unowned | |
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John Warner | Unowned | |
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Roger Hammond | Augustus Roddick | Unowned |
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Alec Wallis | Marquess | Unowned |
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Marty Cruikshank | Unowned | |
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Cordelia Ditton | Unowned | |
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Susan Field | Unowned | |
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Graham Seed | Unowned | |
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Stanley Lloyd | Unowned | |
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Hilary Sesta | Unowned | |
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Murray Melvin | Jeremy Ruttle | Unowned |
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Jonathan Cecil | Sir Martin Locket | Unowned |
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John Atkinson | Unowned | |
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Una Brandon-Jones | Unowned | |
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James Greene | Unowned | |
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Zoe Hicks | Unowned | |
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Brian Poyser | Unowned | |
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Norman Lumsden | Unowned | |
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Richard Clifford | George Locket | Unowned |
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Bill Wallis | Henry Beauchamp-Harper | Unowned |
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Rosalind Adler | Unowned | |
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Rex Doyle | Unowned | |
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Reginald Jessup | Unowned | |
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Christine Pilgrim | Unowned | |
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Joanna Maude | Unowned | |
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Amanda Wenban | Unowned | |
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Hugh Lloyd | Viscount | Unowned |
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Frederick Treves | Samuel Simpson | Unowned |
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Ben Aris | Unowned | |
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Gregory Floy | Unowned | |
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Howard Goorney | Unowned | |
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Christopher Good | Unowned | |
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Petra Markham | Unowned | |
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Ian Lindsay | Unowned | |
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Irina Brook | Georgiana Shillibeer | Unowned |
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Sarah Flind | Unowned | |
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Penny Bunton | Unowned | |
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Julian Bleach | Unowned | |
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Jean Murphy | Unowned | |
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Fiona McAlpine | Unowned | |
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Anne Romyn | Unowned | |
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Ann-Marie Gwatkin | Emily | Unowned |
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James Cosmo | Mr. Bowring | Unowned |
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Terence Conoley | Unowned | |
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James Coyle | Unowned | |
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Stephen Daltry | Unowned | |
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Kit Jackson | Unowned | |
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Giles Oldershaw | Unowned | |
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David Trevena | Unowned | |
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Miriam Margolyes | Mrs. Bowring | Unowned |
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Philip McGough | Mr. Croker | Unowned |
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Iain Andrew | Unowned | |
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Mara Purcell | Unowned | |
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Eric Francis | Unowned | |
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Jack Gittings | Unowned | |
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Bill Stewart | Unowned | |
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Peter Wyatt | Unowned | |
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Ian Gelder | Henry Gibbs | Unowned |
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Joan Sims | Lady Daphne | Unowned |
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Beth Ellis | Unowned | |
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Janet Henfrey | Unowned | |
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Merelina Kendall | Unowned | |
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Charmian May | Unowned | |
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Madeleine Moffat | Unowned | |
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Phillada Sewell | Unowned | |
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Dilys Hamlett | Lady Emma | Unowned |
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Maria Aitken | Lady Amelia | Unowned |
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Laura Cox | Unowned | |
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Sally Faulkner | Unowned | |
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Tamsin Heatley | Unowned | |
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Darlene Johnson | Unowned | |
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Kristin Milward | Unowned | |
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Jane Wymark | Unowned | |
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Auriol Smith | Lady Augusta | Unowned |
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Stratford Johns | Arthur Shillibeer | Unowned |
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Leon Davis | Unowned | |
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James Grant | Unowned | |
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Richard Graydon | Unowned | |
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Bruce Green | Unowned | |
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Patricia Napier | Unowned | |
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Peter Stockbridge | Unowned | |
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Richard Caldicot | Duke | Unowned |
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Patricia Hayes | The Dowager Duchess | Unowned |
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Ruth Mitchell | The Girl | Unowned |
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Jim Carter | Mr. Blackthorn | Unowned |
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Arthur Kelly | Grease remover seller | Unowned |
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Tony Frey | Unowned | |
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Irene Frederick | Unowned | |
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Siobhan Nicholas | Chickweed seller | Unowned |
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Robin Meredith | Crossing sweep | Unowned |
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Miranda Richardson | Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia | Zac E. Chan |
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Joanna Brookes | Stage actress | Unowned |
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Nora Connolly | Stage actress | Unowned |
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John Dalby | Stage actor | Unowned |
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Ron Emslie | Stage actor | Unowned |
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Knight Mantell | Stage actor | Unowned |
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Mark Arnold | Stage actor | Unowned |
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Michael Feast | Mr. Edwin | Unowned |
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Michael Hordern | Mr. Tatham | Unowned |
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Peter Bailie | Unowned | |
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Jan Lower | Unowned | |
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Pamela Moiseiwitsch | Unowned | |
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John Moore | Unowned | |
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Malcolm Mudie | Unowned | |
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Simon Slater | Unowned | |
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John McEnery | Mr. Maclean | Unowned |
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Don Henderson | Bob | Unowned |
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Michael Andrew | Unowned | |
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Graham Fletcher-Cook | Whistling Billy | Unowned |
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David Grahame | Unowned | |
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Kenneth McClellan | Unowned | |
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John Tordoff | Unowned | |
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Robert Terson | Unowned | |
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Nick Edmett | Grease buyer | Unowned |
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Michael Medwin | Mr. Wells | Unowned |
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Raymond Brody | Unowned | |
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Ronnie Brody | Unowned | |
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Alan Ford | Unowned | |
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Mark Lambert | Unowned | |
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Stewart Permutt | Unowned | |
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Peter Waddington | Unowned | |
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Maria Charles | The Pure Gatherer | Unowned |
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Rosalie Crutchley | Mrs. Harris | Unowned |
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Ewen Bremner | Unowned | |
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Ron Cook | Unowned | |
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Christopher Hancock | Joe | Unowned |
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Jessica James | Unowned | |
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Linda Kerr Scott | Unowned | |
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David Sterne | Unowned | |
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Preston Lockwood | Mr. Benjamin | Unowned |
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James Cairncross | Mr. Trott | Unowned |
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Maurice Elliot | Unowned | |
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Richard Henry | Unowned | |
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John Fahey | Unowned | |
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David Glover | Unowned | |
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Robert Putt | Unowned | |
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David Pugh | Unowned | |
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John Harding | Mr. Priddle | Unowned |
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Chris Darwin | Theatre doorman | Unowned |
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Christine Ellerbeck | Unowned | |
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Harry Jones | Unowned | |
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Colleen McClure | Unowned | |
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John Tramper | Unowned | |
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Nicolas Tennant | Curley | Unowned |
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Charlie Bartle | Unowned | |
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Fred Beauman | Unowned | |
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Stephen Boyes | Unowned | |
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Johnnie Clayton | Unowned | |
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David Keyes | Tom | Unowned |
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Dominic Geary | Unowned | |
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Philip Gunderson | Unowned | |
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Ray Martin | Unowned | |
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Terry John | Unowned | |
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Arthur Nightingale | Unowned | |
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Harry Klein | Unowned | |
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George Savvides | Mr. Nick | Unowned |
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John Quarmby | Unowned | |
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Harry Webster | Unowned | |
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Dawn Charatan | Unowned | |
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Joan Dainty | Unowned | |
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Deddie Davies | Unowned | |
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Mark Knox | Unowned | |
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Dominic Martinez | Unowned | |
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Stephen Rashbrook | Unowned | |
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Vince Starr | Unowned | |
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Paul Wilce | Unowned | |
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Michael Mears | Unowned | |
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Cyril Cusack | The Ballad Seller | Unowned |