Wuthering Heights (1998 film)
Wuthering Heights | |
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Directed by | David Skynner[1] |
Written by | Neil McKay Emily Brontë (book) |
Based on | The novel by Emily Brontë |
Produced by | Louise Berridge Jo Wright (executive producer) Rebecca Eaton (executive producer) |
Starring | Robert Cavanah Orla Brady Sarah Smart |
Music by | Warren Bennett |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | ITV |
Release dates | 5 April 1998 (UK) 18 October 1998 (US) |
Running time | 112 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Wuthering Heights is a 1998 British television film directed by David Skynner and starring Robert Cavanah, Orla Brady, and Sarah Smart.[2] It was produced by Jo Wright. It is based on the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The novel was adapted for the screen by Neil McKay. The film was released by ITV on 5 April 1998 in the United Kingdom and released by WGBH-TV on 18 October 1998 in the United States.
Four years later, Smart would star in Sparkhouse, a gender-reversed BBC adaptation of Wuthering Heights in which Smart played the Heathcliff role (renamed to Carol).[3]
Cast[]
- Robert Cavanah as Heathcliff
- Peter Davison as Joseph Lockwood
- Orla Brady as Cathy Earnshaw
- Tom Georgeson as Joseph
- Matthew Macfadyen as Hareton Earnshaw
- Sarah Smart as Catherine Linton
- Kadie Savage as young Cathy Earnshaw
- Ken Kitson as Mr. Earnshaw
- Flora Montgomery as Isabella Linton
- Ian Shaw as Hindley Earnshaw
- Crispin Bonham-Carter as Edgar Linton
- David Maybrick as Gaddick
- Catherine Cheshire as Frances Earnshaw
- Polly Hemingway as Nelly Dean
References[]
- ^ Melani, Lilia. "Film Versions of Wuthering Heights". CUNY. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ "Wuthering Heights (1998)". BFI.
- ^ "BBC - Press Office - Sparkhouse". www.bbc.co.uk.
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Categories:
- English-language films
- 1998 films
- Films set in the 19th century
- 1998 romantic drama films
- British films
- Films based on Wuthering Heights
- London Weekend Television shows
- Television series by ITV Studios
- ITV television dramas
- British television films
- British romantic drama films
- 1990s English-language films
- 1990s British film stubs
- 1990s romantic drama film stubs