Shackleton (1983 TV series)
Shackleton is a British period television drama series which aired in four parts on BBC 2 in 1983. It portrays the Antarctic expeditions of the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Scriptwriter Christopher Ralling drew on Shackleton's own journals, which were re-published by the BBC as a tie-in to the series.
Cast
- David Schofield as Sir Ernest Shackleton
- David Rodigan as Frank Wild
- Michael Hayward as 'Putty' Marston
- Robert Lang as Major Darwin
- Robert James as Sir John Scott-Keltie
- Victoria Fairbrother as Emily Shackleton
- Neil Stacy as Captain R. F. Scott
- Geoffrey Chater as Sir Clements Markham
- Anthony Bate as Lord Curzon
- Benjamin Whitrow as Roald Amundsen
- Michael Sheard as Dr. Koettlitz
- Kevin Whately as Jameson Adams
- Leslie Schofield as Ernie Joyce
- John Wheatley as Percy Blackborrow
- as Small Child