Great Catherine
by Bernard ShawDirected by Hugh Miller
RADA Student Production
13th July 1955
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Prince Patiomkin . . . . . . Peter 0'Toole
Varinka . . . . . . Deirdre Benner
Sergeant . . . . . . Frank Finlay
Captain Edstaston . . . . . . Tristram Jellinek
Naryshkin . . . . . . Peter Needham
Catherine . . . . . . Marguerite Jenkins
Princess Dashkoff . . . . . . Patricia Kilgarriff
Guards . . . . . . Jack Hedley & Harvey Ashby
Claire . . . . . . Tui Sutton
Courtiers:
Ann Bassett, Beryl Braithwaite, Elspeth Bryce, Pauline Devaney, Glenda Jackson, Geoffrey Goldsmith, Neville Jacobson, Peter Mackie, Kenneth Prentice & Michael Reed
Frank would go on to work with Peter O'Toole at the National Theatre in Hamlet.
He would also work several times on film with Glenda Jackson in Sakharov (1984), King of the Wind (1990) and most notably playing her husband in Return Of The Soldier for which Frank received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor.