The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.
7.4(272) 1943-07-26 163 minWarDramaRomanceComedy
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
WriterMichael Powell
ProducerEmeric Pressburger
ProducerMichael Powell
DirectorEmeric Pressburger
DirectorMichael Powell
WriterEmeric Pressburger
Original Music ComposerAllan Gray
Cast & characters
Roger Livesey
as Major General Clive Wynne-Candy
Deborah Kerr
as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
Anton Walbrook
as Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
Roland Culver
as Col. Betteridge
James McKechnie
as Spud Wilson
Arthur Wontner
as Embassy Counsellor
David Hutcheson
as Hoppy
Ursula Jeans
as Frau von Kalteneck
John Laurie
as Murdoch
Harry Welchman
as Major Davies
Robert Harris
as Embassy Secretary
A.E. Matthews
as President of Tribunal
Theodore Zichy
as Colonel Borg (as Count Zichy)
Jane Millican
as Nurse Erna
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Neville Mapp
as Stuffy Graves
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Vincent Holman
as Club Porter (1942)
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Spencer Trevor
as Period Blimp
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James Knight
as Club Porter (1902)
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Dennis Arundell
as Cafe Orchestra Leader
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David Ward
as Kaunitz
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Jan Van Loewen
as Indignant Citizen
Valentine Dyall
as von Schonborn
Carl Jaffe
as von Reumann
Albert Lieven
as von Ritter
