The Last Days of Pompeii (miniseries)

For other uses, see The Last Days of Pompeii (disambiguation).

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DVD cover of the series.

The Last Days of Pompeii was a 1984 television mini-series broadcast on ABC-TV, adapting the 1834 novel of the same name by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It was the second English-language adaptation of the book for film or television (previously adapted mainly in Italian; the 1935 RKO film was unrelated to the novel and the 1900 adaptation by Walter R. Booth, the first adaptation to the cinema in English language, was a short film).

On June 5, 2012 Sony released the mini-series on DVD.

Cast

• Laurence Olivier as Gaius
• Siobhan McKenna as Fortunata
• Anthony Quayle as Quintus / Narrator
• Franco Nero as Arbaces
• Ernest Borgnine as Marcus
• Ned Beatty as Diomed
• Lesley-Anne Down as Chloe
• Sara Blick as Chloe's son
• Olivia Hussey as Ione
• Benedict Taylor as Antonius
• Linda Purl as Nydia
• Nicholas Clay as Glaucus
• Duncan Regehr as Lydon
• Catriona MacColl as Julia
• Gerry Sundquist as Clodius
• Brian Blessed as Olinthus
• Marilu Tolo as Xenia
• Tony Anholt as Lepidus
• David Robb as Sallust
• Stephen Greif as Sporus
• Howard Lang as Medon
• Francesca Romana Coluzzi as Stratonice
• Malcolm Jamieson as Petrus
• Joyce Blair as Lucretia
• Peter Cellier as Calenus
• Barry Stokes as Gar
• Paul Boross as Marcus' slave

External links

• The Last Days of Pompeii at IMDb