Home Movies TV Series Search Sign in

The Ruling Class

6.4 154 mins Comedy   Drama   1972
Keep Films  
Director(s): Peter Medak

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.

Casts of The Ruling Class

Peter O'Toole

as Jack 14th Earl of Gurney

Alastair Sim

as Bishop Lampton

Arthur Lowe

as Tucker

Harry Andrews

as 13th Earl of Gurney

Coral Browne

as Lady Claire Gurney

Michael Bryant

as Dr. Herder

Nigel Green

as McKyle

William Mervyn

as Sir Charles Gurney

Carolyn Seymour

as Grace Shelley

James Villiers

as Dinsdale

Kay Walsh

as Mrs. Piggott-Jones

Patsy Byrne

as Mrs. Treadwell

Graham Crowden

as Truscott

Hugh Burden

as Matthew Peake

James Grout

as Inspector Brockett

James Hazeldine

as Fraser

Joan Cooper

as Nurse Brice

Hugh Owens

as Toastmaster

Henry Woolf

as Inmate

Griffith Davies

as Inmate

Oliver MacGreevy

as Inmate

Neil Kennedy

as Dr. Herder's Assistant

Cyril Appleton

as McKyle's Assistant

Leslie Schofield

as McKyle's Assistant

Declan Mulholland

as Poacher

Ronald Adam

as Lord

Julian D'Albie

as Lord

Llewellyn Rees

as Lord

Kenneth Benda

as Lord Chancellor

Ernest Blyth

as Lord (uncredited)

Terence Conoley

as Lord (uncredited)

George Hilsdon

as Lord (uncredited)

Margaret Lacey

as Midwife (uncredited)

Mike Reynell

as Gurney Village Pedestrian (uncredited)

Robert Rietti

as Various Roles (voice) (uncredited)

Guy Standeven

as Peer (uncredited)

John Tatham

as Lord (uncredited)

Fred Wood

as Corpse (uncredited)

You might also like