Androcles and the Lion (1984)

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Shaw used the traditional fable of Andocles to focus on the integrity of religious belief. Androcles, a christian fleeing persecution in Rome, is captured by Caesar's men. Alongside other christians - Ferrovius, a fierce fighter, Lavinia, a beautiful aristocrat and would-be martyr Spintho - he must face the lions of the Coliseum. How will each of them face their desperate fate?

Androcles and the Lion

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Billy Connolly
Billy Connolly as Androcles Age 83 · Anderston, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Billy Connolly (born November 24, 1942) is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin (The Big One). His...
Anna Calder-Marshall
Anna Calder-Marshall as Lavinia Age 79 · London, England, UK Anna Calder-Marshall is an English actress. Her father was the novelist and essayist Arthur Calder-Marshall. Her husband is actor David Burke and her son is actor Tom Burke..
Bernard Bresslaw
Bernard Bresslaw as Ferrovius Died 1993 · Stepney, London, England, UK A RADA scholar who was spotted by Laurence Olivier, Bernard Bresslaw got professional security from the "Carry On" films but was typecast (as TV's The Army Game (1957) had done earlier). He was beginn...
Rupert Frazer
Rupert Frazer as The Captain Age 79 · United Kingdom Rupert Frazer (born 12 March 1947) is a British actor. He appeared in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi in 1982. In Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987) he plays the father of the protagonist Jim (...
Peter Copley
Peter Copley as Caesar Died 2008 · Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK Peter Copley (20 May 1915 – 7 October 2008) was an English television, film and stage actor. Copley was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, son of the printmakers, John Copley and Ethel Gabain. After cha...
John Tordoff
John Tordoff as Spintho Age 87 · Rochester, Kent, England, UK John Tordoff is a retired English actor, a founding member of The Actors Company and an artist.
Cast Billy Connolly, Anna Calder-Marshall, Bernard Bresslaw, Rupert Frazer, Peter Copley, John Tordoff, Stafford Gordon, Roy Jones, Percy Edwards, Peter Land