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''Eskimo Day'' is a 1996
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Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...
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comedy drama, written by
Jack Rosenthal
Jack Morris Rosenthal (8 September 1931 – 29 May 2004) was an English playwright. He wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations. ...
and directed by
Piers Haggard
Piers Inigo Haggard, OBE (born 18 March 1939), is a British theatre, film and television director, although he has worked mostly in the latter.
Haggard was born in London but grew up on a small farm in Clackmannanshire. He is the great-great- ...
, about the trials and tribulations of three young would-be students as they arrive with their families at
Queens' College, Cambridge, on interview day.
There was a sequel, ''Cold Enough for Snow'', in 1997.
This film was Alec Guinness' final acting performance before his death in 2000.
Cast
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Maureen Lipman
Dame Maureen Diane Lipman (born 10 May 1946) is an English actress, writer and comedian. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and her stage work has included appearances with the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespea ...
as Shani Whittle
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David Ross as Bevis Whittle
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Benedict Sandiford as Neil Whittle
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Tom Wilkinson
Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson (born 5 February 1948)Born January–March 1948, according to the ''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.''; at ancestry.com is an English actor of film, television, and stage. He has rece ...
as Hugh Lloyd
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Laura Howard
Laura Howard (born as Laura Simmons in Chiswick, London,
1977) is an English actress. She is probably best known for her role as Cully Barnaby in the long-running British crime- mystery Police procedural ''Midsomer Murders''.
Biography
Howa ...
as Pippa 'Muffin' Lloyd
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Anna Carteret
Anna Carteret (born 11 December 1942) is a British stage and screen actress.
Biography
Carteret was born as Annabelle S. Wilkinson on 11 December 1942 in Bangalore, British India, the daughter of Peter John Wilkinson and his wife Patricia Ca ...
as Harriet Lloyd
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Alec Guinness as James
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James Fleet
James Edward Fleet (born 11 March 1952) is an English actor of theatre, radio and screen. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film '' Four Weddings and a Funeral'' and the dim- ...
as Simon
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Pippa Hinchley
Philippa Lucy Hinchley (born 7 April 1966) is an English actress who played Elaine Fenwick in '' Coronation Street''. She has also been in ''The Bill'', '' Bugs'', '' Doctors'', '' Holby City'' and '' EastEnders''.
She appeared in the one-off d ...
as Bobbie the waitress
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Lila Kaye
Lila Kaye (7 November 1929 – 10 January 2012) was an English actress. She spent a number of years working in the United States, on Broadway and in television, before returning to England.
Born in Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, sh ...
as Mother Polly
References
1996 television films
1996 films
BBC television dramas
British comedy television shows
Queens' College, Cambridge
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