The Insect Play
Cast & Crew
Cast
A Boy | George Aylward |
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Blind Timekeeper; 2nd Snail | Geoffrey Wilkinson |
Buttefly; Larva; Mayfly | Elsa Lanchester |
Butterfly | Maurice Braddell |
Butterfly | Geoffrey Wincott |
Butterfly; 1st Messenger | Matthew Norgate
(credited as W M Norgate) |
Butterfly; 2nd Messenger | Brandon Philp |
Butterfly; A Girl | Alice Mason |
Butterfly; Mayfly | Margot Sieveking |
Butterfly; Mayfly | Muriel Swinstead |
Chrysalis | Joan Maude |
Clytie; Country Woman | Ann Hyton |
Felix | John Gielgud |
Ichneumon Fly; Inventor | Ivan Berlyn |
Iris; Mayfly | Noelle Sonning |
Lepidopterist; Parasite; Chief Engineer | Claude Rains |
Mayfly | Gwen Elphin |
Mayfly | Margot St Leger |
Mr Beetle; Woodcutter | A Bromley-Davenport |
Mr Cricket; 2nd Snail | Andrew Leigh |
Mrs Beetle; Flag Seller | Marie O’Neill |
Mrs Cricket; Mayfly | Angela Baddeley |
Otto | F Kinsey Peile |
Second Engineer; Yellow Commander | Harvey Adams |
Signal officer | Atholl Douglas |
The Tramp | Edmund Willard |
Victor; Robber Beetle | Algernon West |
Crew | |
Designer | Doris Zinkeisen |
Director | Nigel Playfair |
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- Last modified by Michael Hope.
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- Claude Rains caricature by Einar Nerman by Einar Nerman (Jerimee Richir), Public domain under CC-Zero licence
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