Bad Lord Byron
Year:
1949
Production Country:
Great Britain
A heavenly tribunal discusses and reviews the life of poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, trying to decide if he was a hero, genius, libertine or scoundrel - or all four.
Cast & credits
Cast
- Lord Byron Dennis Price
- Teresa Guiccioli Mai Zetterling
- Caroline Lamb Joan Greenwood
- Augusta Leigh Linden Travers
- Annabella Milbanke Sonia Holm
- John Cam Hobhouse Raymond Lovell
- Fletcher Leslie Dwyer
- prosecuting counsel Denis O'dea
- Lady Melbourne Irene Browne
- Count Guiccioli Ernest Thesiger
- Austrian officer Gerard Heinz
- defending counsel Cyril Chamberlain
- Hopton Wilfrid Hyde White
- gondolier Richard Molinas
- Dallas Robert Harris
- John Murray Archie Duncan
- judge Ronald Adam
- Lady Milbanke Natalie Moya
- Lord Clare John Stone
- Tita Gilbert Davis
- Italian girl Zena Marshall
- Samuel Rogers John Salew
- bailiff Vincent Holman
- doctor Guy Lefeuvre
- 1st old club member Aubrey Mallalieu
- 2nd old club member Desmond Roberts
- Lady Jersey Nora Swinburne
- Pietro Gamba Virgilio Teixeira
- La Fornarina Lena Lanare
- Signora Segati Betty Lynne
- Count Gamba Henry Oscar
- Colonel Stanhope Barry Jones
- Doctor Bruno Bernard Rebel
- Tom Moore Liam Gaffney
Credits
Direction
- Director David Macdonald
- Assistant Director Don Weeks
- [Continuity] Phyllis Ross
Production
- © General Film Distributors
- [Production Company] Triton Films
- A Sydney Box Production Sydney Box
- Producer Aubrey Baring
- Associate Producer Alfred Roome
- Production Manager Anthony Nelson Keys
- Production Controller Arthur Alcott
Writing
- Screenplay Terence Young
- Screenplay Anthony Thorne
- Screenplay Peter Quennell
- Screenplay Paul Holt
- Screenplay Laurence Kitchin
Photography
- Director of Photography Stephen Dade
- Location Photography Gordon Lang
- Camera Operator David Harcourt
Special Effects
- Special Effects P. Guidobaldi
- Special Effects Albert J. Whitlock
Editing
- Editor James Needs
Design
- Supervising Art Director George Provis
- Designs and Art Direction Maurice Carter
Costumes
- Dress Designer Elizabeth Haffenden
Make-up
- Make-up W.T. Partleton
Music
- Music Cedric Thorpe Davie
- Music played by London Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Muir Mathieson
Sound
- Director of Sound B.C. Sewell
- Recordist Les Hammond
- Recordist William Salter