• Source: Disraeli (TV serial)

      • Disraeli, also called Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic, is a 1978 four-part British serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli. It was produced by Associated Television and aired on ITV.
      With a screenplay by David Butler, it stars Ian McShane and was directed by Claude Whatham. Spanning five decades of Disraeli's life, the serial focuses as much on Disraeli's personal life as it does on his political persona.
      Filmed on site in England, the miniseries received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Limited Series after being broadcast in the US in 1980 as part of Masterpiece Theatre under the title Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic.


      Plot


      As the series starts, Disraeli is a Byronic world traveler who has published two novels but is struggling with debt. He tries making connections in high society, and eventually runs for office several times, albeit unsuccessfully.
      Much of his personal life is covered, and his more successful involvement with politics starts in the second episode, which ends with his being sworn in as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
      The rest of the series chronicles his rise to power, the death of his wife, his two terms as Prime Minister, and his rivalry with Gladstone.


      Cast


      Ian McShane - as Benjamin Disraeli
      Mary Peach - as Mary Anne Disraeli
      Rosemary Leach - as Queen Victoria
      John Carlisle - as William Ewart Gladstone
      Jeremy Clyde - as John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland
      Brett Usher - as Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
      Brewster Mason - as Chancellor Bismarck
      Antony Brown - as Sir Robert Peel
      David de Keyser - as Lionel de Rothschild
      David Wood - as Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
      John Gregg - as Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
      Brendan Barry - as Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
      Mark Dignam - as John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
      Patrick Drury - as Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton
      Peter Hughes - as Philip Rose
      Leigh Lawson - as Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay
      Peter Miles - as Lord Henry Lennox
      David Riley - as George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford
      Anton Rodgers - as Lord George Bentinck
      William Russell - as Wyndham Lewis
      Aubrey Morris - Isaac Disraeli
      Maria Charles - as Maria Disraeli (wife of Isaac Disraeli and mother of Benjamin Disraeli)
      Margaret Whiting - as Lady Blessington
      Patricia Hodge - as Rosina Bulwer Lytton
      Frances Bennett - as Anne Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield
      Godfrey Quigley - as Daniel O'Connell
      Sheila Ruskin - as Caroline Norton
      Tim Brierley - as Daniel Maclise


      Reception


      The miniseries was widely praised. The American television magazine Panorama wrote that "McShane captures the inner contradictions of the man" and "It says a lot for Ian McShane's performance in this television series that he brings out both the likeable and the questionable qualities in Disraeli's character."
      The miniseries was broadcast in the U.S. on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre in 1980 and was subsequently nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series.
      In 1980 screenwriter David Butler also published a book based on the series, titled Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic, via Warner Books.


      References




      External links


      Disraeli at IMDb

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