The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

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Roger Livesey

Major General Clive Wynne-Candy

Deborah Kerr

Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon

Anton Walbrook

Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

Roland Culver

Col. Betteridge

James McKechnie

Spud Wilson

Arthur Wontner

Embassy Counsellor

Ursula Jeans

Frau von Kalteneck

John Laurie

Murdoch

Harry Welchman

Major Davies

Robert Harris

Embassy Secretary

A.E. Matthews

President of Tribunal

Theodore Zichy

Colonel Borg (as Count Zichy)

Jane Millican

Nurse Erna

Neville Mapp

Stuffy Graves

Vincent Holman

Club Porter (1942)

Spencer Trevor

Period Blimp

James Knight

Club Porter (1902)

Dennis Arundell

Cafe Orchestra Leader

David Ward

Kaunitz

Jan Van Loewen

Indignant Citizen

Valentine Dyall

von Schonborn

Carl Jaffe

von Reumann

Albert Lieven

von Ritter

Eric Maturin

Colonel Goodhead

Frith Banbury

Baby-Face Fitzroy

Muriel Aked

Aunt Margaret

Reginald Tate

van Zijl

Yvonne Andre

The Nun

Marjorie Gresley

The Matron

Felix Aylmer

The Bishop

Norman Pierce

Mr. Wynne

Edward Cooper

BBC Official

Joan Swinstead

Secretary

Pat McGrath

Tommy Tucker (uncredited)

Art

Alfred Junge

Production Design

Camera

Georges Périnal

Director of Photography

Jim Body

Clapper Loader

Costume & Make-Up

Joseph Bato

Costume Design

George Blackler

Makeup Artist

Dorrie Hamilton

Makeup Artist

Directing

Michael Powell

Director

Tom Payne

Assistant Director

Kenneth Horne

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Michael Powell

Producer

Sound

Allan Gray

Original Music Composer

Writing

Art

Alfred Junge

Production Design

Camera

Georges Périnal

Director of Photography

Jim Body

Clapper Loader

Costume & Make-Up

Joseph Bato

Costume Design

George Blackler

Makeup Artist

Dorrie Hamilton

Makeup Artist

Directing

Michael Powell

Director

Tom Payne

Assistant Director

Kenneth Horne

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Michael Powell

Producer

Sound

Allan Gray

Original Music Composer

Writing