The Great Mr Handel

The Great Mr Handel (1942)

The Life - Tragedy and Triumphs and the Glorious Music of the Illustrious Brought to the Screen

Music Drama

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.

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  • Release Date: 1942-11-09
  • Runtime: 1h 29min
  • Director: Norman Walker

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Cast

  • Wilfrid Lawson

    George Frideric Handel

  • Elizabeth Allan

    Mrs. Cibber

  • Malcolm Keen

    Lord Chesterfield

  • Michael Shepley

    Sir Charles Marsham

  • Max Kirby

    Frederick, Prince of Wales

  • Hay Petrie

    Phineas

  • Morris Harvey

    John Heidegger

  • A.E. Matthews

    Charles Jennens

  • Frederick Cooper

    Pooley

  • Andrew Leigh

    Captain Coram

  • Robert Atkins

  • H.F. Maltby

  • Ivan Samson

  • Charles Groves

  • Alfred Sangster

  • D.J. Williams

    Leader of performance wreckers

  • Michael Hunt

    The Kytch Boys

  • Alan Wren

    The Kytch Boys

  • Amy Dalby

  • Trefor Jones

    Singer

  • Alfred Harris

  • Dorothy Vernon

  • Charles Doe

  • Frank Atkinson

    Permobble

  • Leonard Sharp

  • Judith Nelmes

  • Jean Stanley

  • Victor MacLure

  • Hyma Beckley

    Man Buying Oranges

  • Maureen Chamberlain

    Child

  • Toni Gable

    Lady

  • Kenneth Griffith

  • Martita Hunt

    Chorister

  • Gladys Ripley

    Mrs. Cibber (singing voice)