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Ego Hugo

on BBC Two England

A romantic entertainment by John Hale
with Stephanie Beacham, Anthony Bate, Juliet Harmer, Brian Cox, Jill Melford, Ronald Lacey

Victor Hugo took Ego Hugo as his motto - and lived up to it. Titanic, gargantuan, explosive - in life, painting, writing and love. A man who was never moderate, treated as a god in his own lifetime - the last of the giants. His books are dramatic, grotesque, full of his love of liberty and his championship of the underdog.
In scenes and images both realistic and fantastic the programme paints a portrait of Hugo as a character invented by himself.

(Bristol)
The house that Hugo built: pages 10-11

Contributors

Writer:
John Hale
Make-up:
Grisell Lindsay
Costume:
Joan Wakefield
Design:
Des Chinn
Lighting:
Ted Williams
Producer:
Michael Croucher
Victor Hugo:
Anthony Bate/Brian Cox/Simon Taylor
Adele Hugo, his wife:
Stephanie Beacham
Mme Hugo/Leonie Biard:
Jill Melford
General Leopold Hugo:
Richard Leech
Juliette Drouet, his faithful mistress:
Juliet Harmer
St. Beuve, Javert, Quasimodo, and other hunchbacks:
Ronald Lacey
Guernsey maid:
Zienia Merton
Mme Mars-George:
Jean Boht
Lahorie/Biard:
Patrick Troughton
Alexander Dumas:
Eric Thompson
Eugene Hugo:
Sean Roantree/Adam Steel
Monk:
Bob Hornery
Gautier:
James Smith
Young Adele:
Laura Croucher
Abel Hugo:
Nicholas Orchard
Rosie:
Vicky Nelson

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