Wuthering Heights (1953 TV play) explained

Genre:	Period drama
Director:	Rudolph Cartier
Starring:	Richard Todd Yvonne Mitchell
Theme Music Composer:	Alfred Dunning
Composer:	Richard Addinsell
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Producer:	Rudolph Cartier
Runtime:	100 minutes
Channel:	BBC tv

Wuthering Heights is a 1953 British TV production of Emily Brontë's classic 1847 novel.^[1] It was made because Richard Todd, then at the height of his film popularity, expressed interest in playing Heathcliff and the BBC arranged for an adaptation to be made.^[2]

The production was very popular, although no recordings are thought to have survived.^[3] Kneale's script was filmed in Australia in 1959.^[4]

Cast

• Richard Todd as Heathcliff
• Yvonne Mitchell as Cathy
• William Devlin as Lockwood
• Sydney Bromley as Joseph
• Rene Ray as Isabella (as René Ray)
• Jane Henderson as Ellen
• Robert Brown as Hindley Earnshaw
• Peter Bryant as Edgar Linton
• John Kidd as Dr. Kenneth

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wuthering Heights. 6 December 1953. 1569. 14. BBC Genome.
2. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/6725717/Richard-Todd.html Obituary for Richard Todd, The Telegraph
3. Web site: BFI Screenonline: Wuthering Heights (1962). www.screenonline.org.uk.
4. News: Bronte classic on TV. . . 11 July 1962 . 18 December 2013 . 37 Supplement: Television . National Library of Australia.