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title: "Blackadder: cast and crew"
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cast: 60
crew: 11
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# Blackadder (1983): cast and crew

60 cast and 11 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Rowan Atkinson](https://film.one/person/rowan-atkinson.md) as Edmund Blackadder (24 episodes)
- [Tony Robinson](https://film.one/person/tony-robinson.md) as Private S. Baldrick (24 episodes)
- [Brian Blessed](https://film.one/person/brian-blessed.md) as King Richard IV (6 episodes)
- [Elspet Gray](https://film.one/person/elspet-gray.md) as The Queen (6 episodes)
- [Robert East](https://film.one/person/robert-east.md) as Harry Prince of Wales (6 episodes)
- [Patsy Byrne](https://film.one/person/patsy-byrne.md) as Nursie (6 episodes)
- [Helen Atkinson-Wood](https://film.one/person/helen-atkinson-wood.md) as Mrs. Miggins (6 episodes)
- [Frank Finlay](https://film.one/person/frank-finlay.md) as The Witchsmeller Pursuivant (1 episodes)
- [Patrick Malahide](https://film.one/person/patrick-malahide.md) as Guy of Glastonbury (1 episodes)
- [Alex Norton](https://film.one/person/alex-norton.md) as McAngus, Duke of Argyll (1 episodes)
- [Paul Brooke](https://film.one/person/paul-brooke.md) as Friar Bellows (1 episodes)
- [Peter Cook](https://film.one/person/peter-cook.md) as Richard III (1 episodes)
- [Jim Broadbent](https://film.one/person/jim-broadbent.md) as Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter (1 episodes)
- [Tim McInnerny](https://film.one/person/tim-mcinnerny.md) as Captain Kevin Darling (19 episodes)
- [Hugh Laurie](https://film.one/person/hugh-laurie.md) as Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh (14 episodes)
- [Stephen Fry](https://film.one/person/stephen-fry.md) as Lord Melchett (13 episodes)
- [Tony Aitken](https://film.one/person/tony-aitken.md) as Mad Beggar (6 episodes)
- [Patrick Allen](https://film.one/person/patrick-allen.md) as The Hawk (6 episodes)
- [Miriam Margolyes](https://film.one/person/miriam-margolyes.md) as Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain (2 episodes)
- [Miranda Richardson](https://film.one/person/miranda-richardson.md) as Queen Elizabeth I (8 episodes)
- [Ron Cook](https://film.one/person/ron-cook.md) as Sean, the Irish (1 episodes)
- [Tom Baker](https://film.one/person/tom-baker.md) as Captain Rum (1 episodes)
- [Ronald Lacey](https://film.one/person/ronald-lacey.md) as Bishop of Bath & Wells (1 episodes)
- [Simon Jones](https://film.one/person/simon-jones.md) as Sir Walter Raleigh (1 episodes)
- [Lesley Nicol](https://film.one/person/lesley-nicol.md) as Mrs. Pants (1 episodes)
- [Robbie Coltrane](https://film.one/person/robbie-coltrane.md) as Dr. Samuel Johnson (1 episodes)
- Stephen Frost as Corporal James (3 episodes)
- [Nigel Planer](https://film.one/person/nigel-planer.md) as Lord Smedley (1 episodes)
- Hugh Paddick as Keanrick (1 episodes)
- Kenneth Connor as Mossup (1 episodes)
- [Ben Elton](https://film.one/person/ben-elton.md) as Anarchist (1 episodes)
- [Rik Mayall](https://film.one/person/rik-mayall.md) as Mad Gerald (3 episodes)
- [Warren Clarke](https://film.one/person/warren-clarke.md) as Mr. Hardwood (1 episodes)
- Barbara Horne as Sally Cheapside (1 episodes)
- Roger Avon as The Duke of Cheapside (1 episodes)
- Jeremy Hardy as Corporal Perkins (1 episodes)
- Jeremy Gittins as Private Tipplewick (1 episodes)
- [Adrian Edmondson](https://film.one/person/adrian-edmondson.md) as Baron von Richtoven (1 episodes)
- Gabrielle Glaister as Kate / Bob (3 episodes)
- [Hugo Blick](https://film.one/person/hugo-blick.md) as Lieutenant von Gerhardt (1 episodes)
- [Geoffrey Palmer](https://film.one/person/geoffrey-palmer.md) as Field Marshal Haig (1 episodes)
- John Grillo as Dr. Leech (1 episodes)
- Edward Jewesbury as Kate's Father (1 episodes)
- Sadie Shimmin as Young Crone (1 episodes)
- Holly De Jong as Lady Farrow (1 episodes)
- Linda Polan as Mrs. Ploppy (1 episodes)
- Barry Craine as Mr. Pants (1 episodes)
- Cassie Stuart as Molly (1 episodes)
- John Pierce Jones as Arthur the Sailor (1 episodes)
- Philip Pope as Leonardo Acropolis (1 episodes)
- Piers Ibbotson as Messenger (1 episodes)
- Roger Blake as Geoffrey Piddle (1 episodes)
- [William Hootkins](https://film.one/person/william-hootkins.md) as Monk (1 episodes)
- Bill Wallis as Sir Justin de Boinod (3 episodes)
- Daniel Thorndike as Lord Whiteadder (1 episodes)
- Barbara Miller as Wise Woman (2 episodes)
- Max Harvey as Torturer (1 episodes)
- Vincent Hanna as Mr. Vincent Hanna (1 episodes)
- Denis Lill as Sir Talbot Buxomly (1 episodes)
- Simon Osborne as Pitt the Younger (1 episodes)

## Directing

- [Mandie Fletcher](https://film.one/person/mandie-fletcher.md): Director (12 episodes)
- [Martin Shardlow](https://film.one/person/martin-shardlow.md): Director (6 episodes)
- [Richard Boden](https://film.one/person/richard-boden.md): Director (6 episodes)

## Writing

- [Richard Curtis](https://film.one/person/richard-curtis.md): Writer (24 episodes)
- [Ben Elton](https://film.one/person/ben-elton.md): Writer (18 episodes)
- [Rowan Atkinson](https://film.one/person/rowan-atkinson.md): Writer (6 episodes)

## Production

- [John Lloyd](https://film.one/person/john-lloyd.md): Producer (24 episodes)

## Editing

- [Chris Wadsworth](https://film.one/person/chris-wadsworth.md): Editor (24 episodes)

## Sound and music

- [Howard Goodall](https://film.one/person/howard-goodall.md): Original Music Composer (24 episodes)

## Crew

- William Shakespeare: Additional Dialogue (6 episodes)
- [Hilary Bevan Jones](https://film.one/person/hilary-bevan-jones.md): Floor Runner (6 episodes)

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