Film

The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

200956mDrama

Director: Anja Kirschner
Year: 2009

Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the thief Jack Sheppard and the writer Daniel Defoe, this critical costume drama traces connections between fiction, speculation and aesthetics.

Top cast

Mark Tinter

Jack Sheppard

Donal Cox

Daniel Defoe

Guy Henderson

Applebee & Harlequin

Rebecca Wieland

Elizabeth Lyon & Lady Credit

Frederic Azzopardi

Duverger

Rufus Graham

Devereux & Stockjobber

Archie Christian

Carpenter #1 & Stockjobber

Errol Flynn

Carpenter #2 & Stockjobber

Kieran Gordon

Apprentice

Geoff Regan

Jack Ketch, the Executioner

Susan Gallivan

Mrs. Sheppard

William Fowler

Soldier #1

Mark Harwood

Soldier #2

Doug Shearer

Priest

Clifford Allison

Master Wood & Rummer

Peter Hurley

Page the Butcher

Duncan Mahon

Sykes alias Hell & Fury

Peter Suchin

Hack Journalist

Directed by

Anja Kirschner, David Panos

Written by

Anja Kirschner, David Panos

Produced by

Anja Kirschner, David Panos