Tess of the D'Urbervilles is a three-hour television serial made by LWT, first broadcast on ITV between 8 and 9 March 1998, adapted for television by Ted Whitehead and directed by Ian Sharp and starring Justine Waddell, based on Thomas Hardy's 1891 book Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Production This serial of Tess of the D'Urbervilles was co-produced by London Weekend Television in partnership with the Arts and Entertainment Network of the US, which at the time was beginning to rival PBS in part-funding and broadcasting high quality British productions.Paul J. Niemeyer, Seeing Hardy: Film and Television Adaptations of the Fiction of Thomas Hardy (2003), p. 208
Cast Justine Waddell as Tess Durbeyfield Jason Flemyng as Alec D'Urberville Oliver Milburn as Angel Clare John McEnery as Jack Durbeyfield Lesley Dunlop as Joan Durbeyfield Rosalind Knight as Mrs D'Urberville Anthony O'Donnell as Crick Christine Moore as Mrs Crick Bryan Pringle as Kail Debbie Chazen as Marian Linda Armstrong as Car Darch Hannah Waterman as Nancy Charlotte Bellamy as Cissie Candida Rundle as Izzy Amanda Brewster as Retty Russell Morgan as Boy with Wheelbarrow
References
External links Tess of the D'Urbervilles at IMDb.com