Movie: Lifelike

Top 10 Billed Cast

Peter Clay
Peter Clay

Neil, TV producer

Alun Lewis
Alun Lewis

Andrew, TV director

Matthew Guinness
Matthew Guinness

Martin, TV writer

Anny Tobin
Anny Tobin

Jenny, production secretary

Phil Rowlands
Phil Rowlands

Ben, production assistant

Rob Edwards
Rob Edwards

Malcolm, actor

Jennifer Lonsdale
Jennifer Lonsdale

Julie, actress

John Ringham
John Ringham

Paul Bennett, actor

Paul Easom
Paul Easom

Alan, a teenager

Jason Kemp
Jason Kemp

Piers, a teenager

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    The producer and director are delighted with their television play about a comprehensive school. It seems truthful, authentic, really lifelike. But as rehearsals progress, a tense difference of opinion emerges between the author and the young schoolboy actor.

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    1980-01-26

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