| Based On: | novel of the same name by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
| Director: | Peter R. Hunt |
| Starring: | Ned Beatty Brian Blessed Ernest Borgnine Olivia Hussey |
| Music: | Trevor Jones |
| Country: | Italy United Kingdom United States |
| Language: | English |
| Executive Producer: | David Gerber |
| Producer: | William Hill Richard Irving |
| Editor: | Michael Ellis Richard Marden |
| Cinematography: | Jack Cardiff |
| Runtime: | 310 minutes |
| Company: | RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana David Gerber Productions Centerpoint Columbia Pictures Television |
| Network: | ABC |
The Last Days of Pompeii is an Italian-American 1984 television miniseries filmed at Pinewood Studios and broadcast on ABC-TV and Rai, 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, while the first cinematic adaptation in English was a short film).
On June 5, 2012, Sony released the mini-series on DVD.[1]
| Actor | Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Anholt | Lepidus | A Roman noble; friend of Glaucus, Clodius and Sallust. | |
| Ned Beatty | Diomed | A wealthy merchant; married to Lucretia and the father of Julia. | |
| Joyce Blair | Lucretia | A wealthy Roman; married to Diomed and mother to Julia. | |
| Brian Blessed | Olinthus | A blacksmith and devout Christian. | |
| Ernest Borgnine | Marcus | A slave owner. | |
| Peter Cellier | Calenus | A priest of Isis; brother to Burbo. | |
| Nicholas Clay | Glaucus | A Greek noble; love interest to Ione. | |
| George Claydon | Philos | A Greek dwarf artist. | |
| Brian Coburn | Burbo | A tavern owner; brother of Calenus and married to Stratonice. | |
| Francesca Romana Coluzzi | Stratonice | A brothel owner; married to Burbo | |
| Brian Croucher | Melior | A gladiator. | |
| Lesley-Anne Down | Chloe | A prostitute with a young son; in love with Petrus. | |
| Christopher Ellison | Drusus | A Roman soldier. | |
| Howard Goorney | Joseph | A Christian missionary. | |
| Stephen Greif | Sporus | A gladiator. | |
| Olivia Hussey | Ione | A soon to be priestess of Isis; sister of Antonius, and love interest to Glaucus. | |
| Malcolm Jamieson | Petrus | A slave to Diomed; in love with Chloe. | |
| Howard Lang | Medon | A slave to Diomed; father of Lydon. | |
| Jill Melford | Lucinda | A Roman Noble. | |
| Catriona MacColl | Julia | A wealthy Roman; the daughter of Diomed and Lucretia and love interest to Clodius. | |
| Siobhán McKenna | Fortunata | A Roman noble; married to Gaius. | |
| Franco Nero | Arbaces | The Egyptian High Priest of the Cult of Isis. | |
| Laurence Olivier | Gaius | A former senator from Rome; married to Fortunata. | |
| Linda Purl | Nydia | A blind slave; love interest to Lydon. | |
| Anthony Quayle | Quintus | The head Magistrate of Pompeii. | |
| Michael Quill | Catus | An assistant to Olinthus; a child | |
| Duncan Regehr | Lydon | A gladiator and former slave; love interest to Nydia. | |
| David Robb | Sallust | A Roman noble; friend of Glaucus, Clodius and Lepidus. | |
| Barry Stokes | Gar | A Germanic gladiator. | |
| Gerry Sundquist | Clodius | A poor Roman noble and poet; love interest to Julia. | |
| Benedict Taylor | Antonius | A priest of Isis; brother of Ione. | |
| Marilu Tolo | Xenia | A prostitute; Calenus is a regular client of hers. |