Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy is a British television series which first aired on ITV in 1986. It depicts Lord Mountbatten's time as Supreme Commander, South-East Asia in the Second World War, and then as Viceroy of India shortly after the war in the days leading up to Indian independence. The Film was shot in Sri Lanka.
Main cast
Nicol Williamson ... Lord Louis Mountbatten
Janet Suzman ... Edwina Mountbatten
Dreya Weber ... Pamela Mountbatten
Wendy Hiller ... Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
A.K. Hangal ... Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Owen Holder ... King George VI
David Lyon ... Lt Col Vernon Erskine-Crum
Patrick Allen ... Claude Auchinleck
Michael Byrne ... George Abell
Sam Dastor ... Mahatma Gandhi
Derek Reed ... Patrick Spens
Nigel Davenport ... Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
David Quilter ... Alan Campbell Johnson
Ian Richardson ... Jawaharlal Nehru
Nadim Sawalha ... Liaquat Ali Khan
Tony Wredden ... Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Saloni Kaur ... Indira Gandhi (née Nehru) Sumant Mastakar ... C. Rajagopalachari Nitin Sethi ... Rajendra Prasad John Rolfe ... Clement Attlee Zia Mohyeddin ... V. P. Menon Vladek Sheybal ... Muhammad Ali Jinnah Jeremy Sinden ... Ronald Brockman Nana Patekar ...Nathuram Godse Malcolm Terris ... Winston Churchill Minnie Boga ... Amrit Kaur Roger Hammond ... Cyril Radcliffe Sushma Seth ... Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Villoo Kapadia ... Fatima Jinnah
See also
List of artistic depictions of Mahatma Gandhi
References
External links
1980s British drama television series
ITV television dramas
1986 British television series debuts
1986 British television series endings
Films shot in Sri Lanka
Television shows set in India
Television shows set in England
Television shows set in the British Raj
Cultural depictions of George VI
Cultural depictions of Jawaharlal Nehru
Cultural depictions of Mahatma Gandhi
Cultural depictions of Indira Gandhi
Cultural depictions of Winston Churchill
Cultural depictions of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Cultural depictions of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Cultural depictions of Vallabhbhai Patel
Partition of India in fiction
Works about the Mahatma Gandhi assassination
Films directed by Tom Clegg (director)
