| Cast list | | Kenneth Branagh | as | D.H. Lawrence | | Helen Mirren | as | Frieda von Richtofen Weekley | | Alison Steadman | as | Kate | | Philip Martin Brown | as | David | | Felicity Montagu | as | Jessie Chambers | | Fiona Victory | as | Alice Dax | | Norman Rodway | as | William Hopkin | | Alison King | as | Sallie Hopkin | | Lynn Farleigh | as | Lydia Lawrence | | Malcolm Storry | as | Arthur Lawrence | | Robin Paul Bassford | as | Young Lawrence | | Benjamin Whitrow | as | Ernest Weekley | | Sebastian Rose | as | Weekley Child | | Liz May Brice | as | Elsa Weekley (as Elizabeth Brice) | | Camilla Aspey | as | Weekley Child |
| | Crew list: | | Peter Barber-Fleming (Director) | | Alan Plater (Writer) |
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