Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer's Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.
Robert Pugh
John Kani
Stephen Fry
John Gielgud
Robert Hardy
Rachael Dowling
Charles Gray
James Villiers
Dudley Sutton
Paola Dionisotti
Perry Fenwick
Tom McCabe
Christopher Benjamin
Roger Hammond
John Challis
Chas Bryer
Roger May
Anita Dobson
Howard Lew Lewis
Ursula Howells
Jennifer Hennessy
Matt Wilkinson
Iain Cuthbertson
Tom Harrison
Gordon Langford Rowe
Sion Tudor Owen
Joanna Swain
Ralph Nossek
Richard Underwood
Sarah Sutcliffe
Mike Ames
Vladimir Vega
Fiona Carnegie
David Crawford