Performance The Entertainer (Season 3, Episode 4)
TV Episode | 90 min | Drama

Performance

The Entertainer (Season 3, Episode 4)

TV Episode | 90 min | Drama

The play uses the metaphor of the dying music hall tradition, specifically fictional music hall star Archie Rice, to comment on the moribund state of the British Empire in the 1950s.

Director

Nicholas Renton

Writer

John Osborne (play) (screenplay)

Producer

Simon Curtis

Production Designer

Anthony Ainsworth

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Edit Released

Updated Dec 4, 1993

Release date

Dec 4, 1993 (United Kingdom)

Awards

Series awards

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy Award. Another 1 win & 2 nominations

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Cast	+ Add Cast
7 cast members

Name	Known for
George Beach Frank Rice Frank Rice See fewer	Performance (1991)
Michael Gambon Archie Rice Archie Rice See fewer	Gosford Park (2001)
Nicholas Hewetson Graham Dodd Graham Dodd See fewer	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Helen McCrory Jean Rice Jean Rice See fewer	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Bill Owen Billy Rice Billy Rice See fewer	Last of the Summer Wine (1973)
David Ryall Bill Bill See fewer	Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Billie Whitelaw Phoebe Rice Phoebe Rice See fewer	The Omen (1976)