Series Cast

Michelle Newell
Cleopatra
Graham Crowden
Theodotus
Richard Griffiths
Pot Belly
Elizabeth Shepherd
Cleopatra, the mother
Robert Hardy
Julius Caesar
Christopher Neame
Mark Antony
David Horovitch
Chickpea
Amanda Boxer
Cleopatra Tryphaena
Antony Carrick
Canidius
Arthur Hewlett
Achoreus
Arthur White
Bolis
Brian Oulton
Aristarchus
Carol Harrison
Caroline Mortimer
David Buck
Donald Pickering
Francesca Gonshaw
Arsinoe
Geoffrey Chater
Perigenes
Geoffrey Whitehead
Scipio Africanus
Godfrey James
Cato
Graham Faulkner
Apollodorus
Graham Pountney
Graham Seed
Ptolemy
Granville Saxton
Cyzicenus
Harold Kasket
Onias
Ian McNeice
Alexander
Jack May
Criton
James Aubrey
Grypus
John Arnatt
Sophron
John Bennett
Philocles
John Moffatt
Quintus Dellius
John Ringham
Pothinus
John Savident
Pythagoras
Keith Drinkel
Lois Baxter
Moray Watson
Gabinius
Morris Perry
General Chaereas
Patrick Troughton
Sextus
Pauline Moran
Cleopatra Berenike
Peter Dennis
Diomedes
Prue Clarke
Cleopatra Selene
Richard Cubison
Roger Brierley
Demetrius
Rupert Frazer
Octavian
Seeta Indrani
Maid
Shirin Taylor
Stephen Greif
Demetrius
Sue Holderness
Cleopatra, eldest daughter
Tony Caunter
Achillas
Tony Osoba
Marsyas
Colin Higgins
Seleucus
Richard Bates
Soldier / Servant
Helen Sparks
Dancer
Steve Wilsher
Assassin (uncredited)

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Miniseries

1983 | 8 Episodes

Miniseries of The Cleopatras premiered on Jan 19 1983

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A review by CinemaSerf

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Written by CinemaSerf on Wed Feb 23 2022

Written by Philip Mackie, who also penned "The Caesars" (1968), I recall the furore at the time here in the UK when the BBC started showing "The Cleopatras". This eight-parter was accused of being a seedy, tawdry - and just about everything else pejorative - depiction of the Ptolomeic court in Alexandria that saw a multitude of women called Cleopatra rule Egypt. What those criticisms failed to acknowledge is that this is pretty much exactly how these depraved, incestuous individuals did behave. Mothers married sons, fathers their daughters - indeed it would have been quite possible for your mum...