Disraeli | |
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Screenplay by | David Butler |
Directed by | Claude Whatham |
Starring | Ian McShane |
Theme music composer | Wilfred Josephs |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Producer | Cecil Clarke |
Production location | England |
Editor | Al Pigden |
Production company | Associated Television |
Original release | |
Network | ITV (UK) PBS's Masterpiece Theatre (US) |
Release | 5 September 1978 1 June 1980 (US) | (UK)
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Disraeli, also called Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic, is a 1978 four-part British serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli. It was produced by Associated Television and aired on ITV.
With a screenplay by David Butler, it stars Ian McShane and was directed by Claude Whatham. Spanning five decades of Disraeli's life, the serial focuses as much on Disraeli's personal life as it does on his political persona.
Filmed on site in England, the miniseries received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Limited Series after being broadcast in the US in 1980 as part of Masterpiece Theatre under the title Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic.[1]