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The Dinosaur Hunters

6.5 122 mins Drama   Documentary   2002
Granada Television   Granada Productions   Channel 4 Television   PBS  
Director(s): Andrew Piddington

Release Date: 30 Mon, Dec 2002

One man who kept asking questions was Gideon Mantell, the amateur paleontologist who, in the early 19th century, fought to get the British scientific establishment to accept Britain had been inhabited by dinosaurs. As this dramatised documentary shows, Mantell had an uphill battle in a time when the biblical account of creation was considered literal truth and authorities such as the Reverend William Buckland were determined that science remain "the handmaid of religion".

Casts of The Dinosaur Hunters

Henry Ian Cusick

as Gideon Mantell

Paul Brightwell

as Leney

Michelle Bunyan

as Caroline Owen

Alan Cox

as Richard Owen

Kristian Griffiths

as Walter Mantell (Aged 14-18)

Derek Jacobi

as Narrator (voice)

Rebecca McClay

as Mary Anning

Robert Morgan

as Charles Lyell

Michael Pennington

as William Buckland

Rachel Shelley

as Mary Mantell

Laurie Goode

as Removal Man (uncredited)

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