Beasts: The Dummy

Beasts: The Dummy

60 mins | Drama, Horror, Mystery, TV Movie | Nov. 20, 1976

A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.

Beasts: The Dummy

60 mins | Drama, Horror, Mystery, TV Movie | Nov. 20, 1976

Beasts: The Dummy
A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.
Producers Associated Television (ATV)
Original title Beasts: The Dummy
Directors Don Leaver
Writers Nigel Kneale

Cast

Bernard Horsfall

as Clyde Boyd

Clive Swift

as 'Bunny' Nettleton

Glyn Houston

as Sidney Stewart

Thorley Walters

as Sir Ramsey

Lillias Walker

as Joan Eastgate

Patricia Haines

as Sheila Boyd

Simon Oates

as Peter Wager

Ian Thompson

as Mike Hickey

Ruby Head

as Tea Lady

Michael Sheard

as Sergeant

George Malpas

as Vic

Frank Coda

as First Assistant

Jack Cooper

as Grave Robber

James Giles

as Sound Mixer

Dave Carter

as Dresser

Norman Hartley

as Boom Swinger

Barbara Hyslop

as Continuity Girl

Harry Meacher

as Constable