Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Robert Donat
Margaret Johnston
Maria Schell
Renée Asherson
Richard Attenborough
Robert Beatty
Martin Boddey
Edward Chapman
John Charlesworth
Maurice Colbourne
Roland Culver
John Howard Davies
Michael Denison
Joan Dowling
Henry Edwards
Mary Ellis
Marjorie Fielding
Robert Flemyng
Leo Genn
Marius Goring
Everley Gregg
Joyce Grenfell
Robertson Hare
Kathleen Harrison
William Hartnell
Joan Hickson
Thora Hird
Stanley Holloway
Patrick Holt
Michael Hordern
Jack Hulbert
Sid James
Glynis Johns
Mervyn Johns
Barry Jones
Peter Jones
James Kenney
Ann Lancaster
Herbert Lomas
John Longden
Bessie Love
Miles Malleson
Garry Marsh
Muir Mathieson
A.E. Matthews
Bernard Miles
Richard Murdoch
John McCallum
David Oake
Laurence Olivier
Cecil Parker
Frank Pettingell
Norman Pierce
Eric Portman
Dennis Price
Michael Redgrave
Peter Reynolds
Margaret Rutherford
Janette Scott
Ronald Shiner
Sheila Sim
Oda Slobodskaya
John Stuart
Marianne Stone
Basil Sydney
Ernest Thesiger
Sybil Thorndike
David Tomlinson
Cecil Trouncer
Michael Trubshawe
Peter Ustinov
Frederick Valk
Amy Veness
Charles Victor
Kay Walsh
Norman Watson
Emlyn Williams
Harcourt Williams
Googie Withers
Joan Young
John Sharp