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House of Cards

Year:

1991

Duration:

226 min (4 parts)

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

8.9

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 5 wins & 8 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1991-03-31

Filming Locations: Admiralty Arch, The Mall, St. James's, London, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Nick Brimble

Ian Richardson

Francis Urquhart

Susannah Harker

Mattie Storin

Miles Anderson

Roger O'Neill

Alphonsia Emmanuel

Penny Guy (4 episodes, 1990)

Malcolm Tierney

Patrick Woolton

Diane Fletcher

Elizabeth Urquhart

Colin Jeavons

Tim Stamper

Damien Thomas

Michael Samuels

William Chubb

John Krajewski

Kenneth Gilbert

Harold Earle

Christopher Owen

McKenzie (4 episodes, 1990)

David Lyon

Prime Minister Henry Collingridge

Kenny Ireland

Ben Landless (3 episodes, 1990)

James Villiers

Charles Collingridge

Isabelle Amyes

Anne Collingridge (3 episodes, 1990)

John Hartley

Greville Preston (3 episodes, 1990)

Nicholas Selby

Lord Billsborough

Tommy Boyle

Stephen Kendrick (2 episodes, 1990)

John Arnatt

Sir Jasper Grainger

Richard Braine

Kevin Spence

Hugh Dickson

Dr. Andrew Christian (2 episodes, 1990)

Angela Rippon

Newsreader (2 episodes, 1990)

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Trivia

Michael Dobbs had a different ending in his original novel. It was Francis Urquhart, not Mattie Storin, who fell to his death from the tower of the Houses of Parliament. The BBC's ending was fortunate because it allowed Dobbs to write the sequels To Play the King (1993) and The Final Cut (1995).

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John Major's then-running campaign for the leadership of the Conservative party following Margaret Thatcher's ousting actually downed tools when the series aired in order to watch it.

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On the first day of filming, production designer Ken Ledsham pulled a practical joke on director Paul Seed by showing the rest of the cast and crew a video of Seed's over-the-top performance as the villain in the Doctor Who (1963) story "The Ribos Operation," which both had worked on earlier in their careers when Seed was still an actor.

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Quotes

Francis Urquhart: Playing with the hopes and dreams of a daughter, now gentle, now hard, rebuking and rewarding, chastising and forgiving. The pleasures of a father. Of a father of daughters. What greater power is there than that? Why should a man want more? Why should I yearn to be everybody's daddy?

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Ben Landless: Damn good story, wrong damn paper, who do you think we are, the Statesman?

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Elizabeth Urquhart: [talking about Henry Collingridge] I hope he's not going to sack you, Francis.

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