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2026 · Music · Drama
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Film / 1942
The Great Mr Handel
Directed by
Norman Walker
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Wilfrid LawsonGeorge Frideric Handel
Elizabeth AllanMrs. Cibber
Malcolm KeenLord Chesterfield
Michael ShepleySir Charles Marsham
Hay PetriePhineas
Morris HarveyJohn Heidegger
A.E. MatthewsCharles Jennens
Frederick CooperPooley
Andrew LeighCaptain Coram
Robert Atkins
H.F. Maltby
Ivan Samson
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Charles Groves
Alfred Sangster
D.J. WilliamsLeader of performance wreckers
Michael HuntThe Kytch Boys
Alan WrenThe Kytch Boys
Amy Dalby
Trefor JonesSinger
Alfred Harris
Dorothy Vernon
Charles Doe
Frank AtkinsonPermobble
Leonard Sharp
Judith Nelmes
Jean Stanley
Victor MacLure
Hyma BeckleyMan Buying Oranges
Maureen ChamberlainChild
Toni GableLady
Kenneth Griffith
Martita HuntChorister
Gladys RipleyMrs. Cibber (singing voice)
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