‘Brideshead Revisited’ filmed on location

Press, 16 July 1982, Page 11

‘Brideshead Revisited’ filmed on location

Granada's highly-ac-claimed production ' of “Brideshead Revisited” (starting on One at 8 p.m. on Sunday) was filmed entirely on location. "Brideshead Revisited" will begin with a special one hour and 40 minute episode. It is an introduction to the 11-part series which follows a group of unforgettable characters over three glittering decades and moves between great English houses and scenes in Oxford, Venice, London, Paris, North Africa and New York. In episode one, the main location — Castle Howard in Yorkshire — represents Brideshead Castle as it appeared in the war years during the 1944 prologue to the story, and later as it is first seen by Charles Ryder on a summer morning in 1923. Castle Howard, one of the most spectacular baroque houses in England and now the historic home of the Howard family, originally supplied Evelyn Waugh with his inspiration for Brideshead Castle. Castle Howard was the first architectural commission of the playwright. John Vanbrugh, and was built during the first quarter of the eighteenth century. Nearly all the’scenes set at Brideshead were filmed in the rooms and grounds of Castle Howard. Oxford was a major setting for the filming of “Brideshead Revisited.” In episode one, Hertford College, which was Waugh’s old . college, represents Charles Ryder's college. Ryder's rooms are the actual ground floor rooms occupied by Waugh after his second term. These rooms were repanelled and furnished as closely as possible to the description in the novel. “Brideshead Revisited.” stars Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder, AnthonyAndrews as Lord Sebastian Flyte, and Diana Quick as his sister Lady Julia Flyte. Other major roles are played by special guest stars: Laurence Olivier as Lord Marchmain, Claire Bloom as Lady Marchmain, Stephane Audran as Marchmain’s mistress Cara, Mona Washborune as Nanny Hawkins, John Le Mesurier as Father Mowbray, and John Gielgud as Edward Ryder. Leading players in the cast are Jane Asher, Nickolas Grace, John Grillo, Simon Jones, Charles Keating, Phoebe Nicholls and Jeremy Sinden.