The Gathering Storm

Winston Churchill

Clemmie Churchill

Joachim von Ribbentrop

Adolf Hitler

Neville Chamberlain

Kurt von Schuschnigg

Lord Beaverbrook

Cook

Anthony Eden

David Lloyd George

Randolph Churchill

Speaker

Junior secretary

Brendan Bracken

Admiral Pound

George VI

Admiral Browning

Edward VIII

Von Brondorff

Maisky

Sarah Churchill

Leo Amery

Civil servant

Clement Attlee

Miss Hamblin

Stanley Baldwin

Lt. Comdr. Thompson

Robert Hardy plays opposite Richard Burton as Winston Churchill and will play Winston Churchill in five other productions as of 2009.

This was televised by the BBC in Britain (where it was made) under the title "Walk with Destiny". It was shown at the time of Sir Winston Churchill's centenary.

Two articles written by Richard Burton attacking Churchill, one entitled "To Know Him is to Hate Him", caused great offense in the UK and the US when they were published in November 1974 before his program was broadcast. Burton's younger brother Graham Jenkins contended they were in poor taste after playing Churchill in a favorable light with considerable help from the wartime leader's family. It lead to the blacklisting of Richard Burton from British TV drama for the rest of his life.