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Longitude is a 2000 TV drama produced by Granada Television and the A&E Network for Channel 4, first broadcast between 2 and 3 January 2000 in the UK on Channel 4 and the US on A&E. It is a dramatisation of the 1995 book of the same title by Dava Sobel. It was written and directed by Charles Sturridge and stars Michael Gambon as clockmaker John Harrison (1693–1776) and Jeremy Irons as horologist Rupert Gould (1890–1948).
Original Release
01/02/2000
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jeremy Irons | Rupert Gould |
Anna Chancellor | Muriel Gould |
Emma Kay | Laura Gurney |
Samuel West | Nevil Maskelyne |
Ian McNeice | Dr. Bliss |
Ian Hart | William Harrison / William Harrison (Adult) |
Bill Nighy | Lord Sandwich |
Brian Cox | Lord Morton |
Barbara Leigh-Hunt | Dodo Gould |
Gemma Jones | Elizabeth Harrison |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jeremy Irons | Rupert Gould |
Anna Chancellor | Muriel Gould |
Emma Kay | Laura Gurney |
Samuel West | Nevil Maskelyne |
Ian McNeice | Dr. Bliss |
Ian Hart | William Harrison / William Harrison (Adult) |
Bill Nighy | Lord Sandwich |
Brian Cox | Lord Morton |
Barbara Leigh-Hunt | Dodo Gould |
Gemma Jones | Elizabeth Harrison |
Peter-Hugo Daly | John Jefferies |
John Leeson | BBC Producer |
Nick Reding | Captain Campbell |
Peter Penry-Jones | Surgeon |
Charles Edwards | Lt. Seward |
Clive Francis | Captain Digges |
Steven Alvey | Learmouth |
Ben Jones | Lt. Williams |
Alec McCowen | Sir Frank Dyson |
Gary Waldhorn | Commodore Forrest |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Pippa Cross | Executive Producer |
Delia Fine | Executive Producer |
Antony Root | Executive Producer |
Catriona McKenzie | Producer |
Selwyn Roberts | Producer |
Kris Slava | Producer |