This Happy Breed

Directed by Donald McWhinnie
Writer: Noël Coward

1969

  • Frank Finlay . . . . . . . . . . Frank Gibbons
    Dandy Nichols . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Flint
    Gillian Martell . . . . . . . . . . Ethel Gibbons
    Gillian Raine . . . . . . . . . . Aunt Sylvia
    Tamara Hinchco . . . . . . . . . . Queenie Gibbons
    Andrew Ray . . . . . . . . . . Billy Mitchell
    Vivien Heilbron . . . . . . . . . . Vi Gibbons (as Vivienne Heibronn)
    Terence Edmond . . . . . . . . . . Sam Leadbitter
    Christopher Hancock . . . . . . . . . . Bob Mitchell
    Robert Cook . . . . . . . . . . Reg Gibbons
    Sara-Jane Ladbrook . . . . . . . . . . Edie
    Mary Larkin . . . . . . . . . . Phyllis Blake

    Part of a series of productions on the BBC to celebrate Noël Cowards 70th birthday.

    It’s a lovely play to do, warm, full of love, different from Coward’s usual formula. Some of it is a bit too sentimental, too patriotic, but that’s been cut anyway to get it down to 90 minutes.

    Frank Finlay in This Happy Breed
    Radio Times 4th December 1969