Death of Adolf Hitler, The (ITV 1973, Frank Finlay, Caroline Mortimer)

Period drama telling the last ten days in Hitler’s life before his suicide in the bunker in 1945.

production details
UK | ITV – London Weekend Television | 1×120 minutes | Broadcast 7 January 1973

Writer: Vincent Tilsley
Producer: Rex Firkin

cast
Frank Finlay as Adolf Hitler
Caroline Mortimer as Eva Braun
Oscar Quitak as Joseph Goebbels / Magda Goebbels
Ed Devereaux as Martin Bormann
Ray McAnally as Dr. Gebhardt
Michael Lees as Albert Speer
Derek Francis as Prof. Morell
Peter Blythe as Dr. Stumpfegger / General Krebs
Wanda Moore as Traudl Junge
Mitzi Rogers as Gerda Christian
Mark Praid as Helmut Goebbels
Raymond Adamson as Field Marshall Keitel
Tony Steedman as General Alfred Jodl
Clifford Rose as General Koller
Jonathan Elsom as Linge
Myvanwy Jenn as Hanna Reitsch
Robert Cawdron as Hermann Goering
Inigo Jackson as Hermann Fegelein
Michael Sheard as Heinrich Himmler
Geoffrey Toone as Von Ribbentrop / Grand Admiral Doenitz
Hector Ross as General Burgdorf
Richard Hampton as Lorenz
John Ringham as Walter Wagner
Dan Meaden as Guensche
Tara Soppet as Liesl
Michael Richmond as Sewer Breadseller
Peter Elliott as Sewer Queer
Mary Henry as Sewer Prostitute
John Carlin as Zanger

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