A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton

Documentary portrait of the life of playwright Joe Orton, who was murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell in April 1967.

Documentary

Nigel Williams

(Narrator/Interviewer (voice))

John Lahr

(Self - Biographer)

Leonie Orton

(Self - Sister)

Douglas Orton

(Self - Brother)

Eleanor Salvoni

(Self - Neighbour)

Aldo Salvoni

(Self - Neighbour)

Richard O'Donoghue

(Self - RADA Administrator)

Margaret Whiting

(Self - Friend)

Richard Braine

(Self - Publisher)

Charles Monteith

(Self - Publisher)

Jim Connell

(Self - Special Services Librarian, Islington)

Sidney Porett

(Self - Principal Law Clerk, Islington Council)

Margaret Ramsey

(Self - Theatrical Agent)

Kenneth Williams

(Self)

Charles Marowitz

(Self - First West End Director of Loot)

Kenneth Cranham

(Self)

Peter Willes

(Self - TV Producer of Orton's Plays)

Paul Moriarty

(Truscott - Loot)

Dinah Stabb

(Fay - Loot)

Paul Shearer

(Hal - Loot)

Nicholas Lyndhurst

(Dennis - Loot)

Keith Marsh

(McLeavy - Loot)

Una Brandon-Jones

(Mother - Loot)