Movie: Countdown to War

September 21, 2020
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Editor’s note: This 1989 ITV production is a fine dramatization of the European political and diplomatic maneuvers leading up to the Second World War. A partial cast list is appended below.


Cast

Ian McKellen — Adolf Hitler
Michael Aldridge — Neville Chamberlain
Tony Britton — Sir Nevile Henderson (British Ambassador to Germany)
John Woodvine — Joachim von Ribbentrop (German Foreign Minister)
Peter Vaughan — Hermann Göring (Chief of the Luftwaffe)




Michael Culver — Lord Halifax (British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs)

Anthony Bate — Sir John Simon (British Chancellor of the Exchequer)


Lee Montague — Leslie Hore-Belisha (British Secretary of State for War)
Jonathan Coy — Rab Butler (British Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs)
Ronnie Stevens — Sir Eric Phipps (British Ambassador to France)
Jack Galloway — Malcolm MacDonald (British Secretary of State for the Colonies)
Richard Heffner — Euan Wallace (British Minister of Transport)
John Elmes — Ian Colvin (British Journalist, Berlin Correspondent for the News Chronicle)
Bernard Gallagher — Arthur Greenwood (Deputy Leader of the Labour Party)
David Swift – Édouard Daladier (French Prime Minister)
Robert Ashby — Georges Bonnet (French Foreign Minister)


Bernard Brown — Charles Corbin (French Ambassador to Britain)
Alex Norton — Josef Stalin
Michael Cronin — Vyacheslav Molotov (Soviet Foreign Minister)
James Laurenson — Galeazzo Ciano (Italian Foreign Minister)
Barrie Rutter — Benito Mussolini
Stephen Moore — Józef Beck (Polish Foreign Minister)
Bill Stewart — Józef Lipski (Polish Ambassador to Germany)
John Stratton — Emil Hácha (President of Czechoslovakia)
Bob Sherman — William C. Bullitt (US Ambassador to France)
Hilary Minster — Birger Dahlerus (Swedish Businessman and Göring’s Personal Envoy to Britain)
Michael Mellinger — Gen. Maurice Gamelin (Commander in Chief of the French Army)



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