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- Adapted from the stage play version of Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd, it starred Terence Stamp as Billy Budd, Robert Ryan as John Claggart, and Ustinov as Captain Vere. In his film debut, Stamp was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and received a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Male Newcomer.
Adapted from Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman's stage play version of Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd, it stars Terence Stamp as Billy Budd, Robert Ryan as John Claggart, and Ustinov as Captain Vere.
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Billy Budd (1962) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Billy Budd: Directed by Peter Ustinov. With Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers. When a kind-hearted sailor is made to join an English vessel at war in 1797, he finds himself caught between devotion to his crewmates and obedience to their hated, cruel master-at-arms.
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- Adventure, Drama, War
- Peter Ustinov
- 1962-11-12
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), also known as Billy Budd, Foretopman, is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891.
Robert H. Chapman. Theatre Play. Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
Cast. Videos. Images. Details. Billy Budd is a 1962 film adaptation of Herman Melville's novella, directed by and starring Peter Ustinov. The film follows the tragic story of a young sailor, played by Terence Stamp, who is pressed into service on a British naval ship during the Napoleonic Wars.
Billy Budd - Full Cast & Crew. Adaptation of Herman Melville's classic novel, set in the 18th century, about a goodhearted, unsophisticated British sailor who is court-martialed for murdering...
