David Copperfield

David Copperfield (2025)

2025

Drama / TV Movie

4.9 from 10 with total 8 votes

1969-12-01

118 minutes

A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens\' classic novel, turns Dickens\' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.

Richard Attenborough character Mr. Tungay

Cyril Cusack character Barkis

Edith Evans character Aunt Betsy Trotwood

Pamela Franklin character Dora Spenlow

Susan Hampshire character Agnes Wickfield

Wendy Hiller character Mrs. Micawber

Ron Moody character Uriah Heep

Laurence Olivier character Mr. Creakle

Robin Phillips character David Copperfield

Michael Redgrave character Dan Peggotty

Ralph Richardson character Mr. Micawber

Emlyn Williams character Mr. Dick