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Micro Men

7.1 84 mins Drama   2009
DSP   BBC  
Director(s): Saul Metzstein

In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry, in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students, set up his own, rival firm to Sinclair Radionics, Acorn. Acorn beat Sinclair to a lucrative contract supplying the BBC with machines for a computer series. From here on it is a battle for supremacy to gain the upper hand in the domestic market.

Casts of Micro Men

Alexander Armstrong

as Clive Sinclair

Martin Freeman

as Chris Curry

Edward Baker-Duly

as Hermann Hauser

Sam Phillips

as Steve Furber

Peter Davison

as Bank manager

Derek Riddell

as Nigel Searle

James Fleet

as Kenneth Baker

Theo Barklem-Biggs

as Sinclair journalist

Tim Downie

as Tony Wood Rogers

Stefan Butler

as Roger Wilson

Colin Michael Carmichael

as Jim Westwood

Rhona Croker

as Valerie

Amy Beth Hayes

as Cynthia

Nicola Harrison

as Ann Sinclair

Anthony Smee

as Norman Hewett

Michael Keating

as Derek Holley

Jon Glover

as John Radcliffe

Renny Krupinski

as Foreman

James Garnon

as Acorn Journalist

Rasmus Hardiker

as Shop Assistant Luke

Alison Dowling

as Shopper

Perdita Avery

as Susan

Elizabeth Bower

as Mindy

Sir Clive Sinclair

as Self (archive footage)

Lord Alan Sugar

as Self

James Corker

as Cambridge Graduate (uncredited)

Jason Fitzpatrick

as David Johnson-Davies (uncredited)

David Mahoney

as Clapper Loader - Sinclair QL Commercial (Nicht genannt)

Mark Mansfield

as Rick Dickinson (uncredited)

Rob Mcloughlin

as Nick Toop (uncredited)

Cal O'Connell

as Reporter (uncredited)

Sophie Wilson

as Pub Landlady (uncredited)

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