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Masterpiece Theatre: Bleak House: With Denholm Elliott, Suzanne Burden, Jonathan Moore, Diana Rigg. The great case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce drags on, an obsession to all involved.
- (399)
- 1985-04-10
- Drama, Crime
- 391
Suzanne Burden (born 1958) is a British actress. A graduate of RADA, she has appeared on television, and occasionally in films, since the early 1980s. She gained attention as Esther Summerson in Bleak House (1985). In 1989, she played Patricia Matthews in Poirot (episode "The Third Floor Flat"), and Joyce Blount in Campion (episode "Police at ...
Bleak House is a BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House (1853). [1] The series was the second adaptation of Bleak House by the BBC (the first being in 1959 ). [2] It ran for eight episodes and starred Diana Rigg as Lady Dedlock, with Denholm Elliott in ...
- United Kingdom
- Geoffrey Burgon
- English
- Period drama
Alan Woodcourt (Husband) Esther Summerson is a character in Bleak House, an 1853 novel by Charles Dickens. She also serves as one of the novel's two narrators; half the book is written from her perspective. It is the only example of a double narrative in Dickens and the first person female voice may have been influenced by the example of ...
- Lady Dedlock (Mother), Captain James Hawdon (Nemo) (Father), Miss Barbary (Aunt), Alan Woodcourt (Husband)
- Charles Dickens
- Female
- Bleak House
The BBC assembles its casts carefully. Denholm Elliott as Jarndyce and Diana Rigg as Lady Dedlock are excellent, Peter Vaughan is a fine Tulkinghorn, Charlie Drake repulsive as Smallweed, and T. P. McKenna does Skimpole superbly. Suzanne Burden is appropriately self-effacing as Esther.
Bleak House (1985) As the arduous Jarndyce vs Jarndyce case staggers onward, more and more people become embroiled in a furious legal battle that can only lead to a bitter ending. Year: 1985 · Season 1 · Credits: Diana Rigg, Denholm Elliott, Suzanne Burden...
Suzanne Burden. Actress: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Suzanne Burden was born in 1958. She is an actress, known for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018), Great Performances (1971) and Mark Gertler: Fragments of a Biography (1981).
