The Duchess of Duke Street
tv show
31 total episodes
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2 seasons
First Aired September 04, 1976
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Overview
The Duchess of Duke Street is a British television period drama created and written by John Hawkesworth, loosely based on the real-life career of Rosa Lewis, and produced by the BBC and Time-Life Television Productions for BBC One. The programme ran for two series from 1976 to 1977. In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.
Cast
Gemma Jones
as
Louise Trotter
Victoria Plucknett
as
Mary
John Welsh
as
Merriman
John Cater
as
Starr
Richard Vernon
as
Major Toby Smith-Barton
Mary Healey
as
Mrs Cochrane
Christopher Cazenove
as
Charles Haslemere
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Sammie Winmill
as
Ethel
Holly De Jong
as
Violet
June Brown
as
Violet Leyton
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Bryan Coleman
as
Lord Henry Norton
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John Rapley
as
Ernest Leyton
Crew
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Bill Bain
as
Director
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Cyril Coke
as
Director
Simon Langton
as
Director
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Raymond Menmuir
as
Director
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Gerry Mill
as
Director
John Hawkesworth
as
Producer
John Hawkesworth
as
Writer
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Jeremy Paul
as
Writer
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Julia Jones
as
Writer
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Rosemary Anne Sisson
as
Writer
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Bill Craig
as
Writer
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Maggie Wadey
as
Writer