This Happy Breed

A Sweeping Panorama of Living

A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.

Drama

Robert Newton

(Frank Gibbons)

Celia Johnson

(Ethel Gibbons)

Amy Veness

(Mrs. Flint)

Alison Leggatt

(Aunt Sylvia)

Stanley Holloway

(Bob Mitchell)

John Mills

(Billy Mitchell)

Kay Walsh

(Queenie Gibbons)

Eileen Erskine

(Vi Gibbons)

John Blythe

(Reg Gibbons)

Guy Verney

(Sam Leadbitter)

Betty Fleetwood

(Phyllis Blake)

Merle Tottenham

(Edie)

Mabel Etherington

(Woman in Crowd)

Jack May

(Mourner)

Laurence Olivier

(Narrator (voice))