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    Drama TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Peter The Great

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    NBC’s made-in-Russia $30 million epic Peter The Great was billed as the most extravagant and magnificent Hollywood miniseries ever made.

    With Austrian heart-throb Maximilian Schell in the title role of the 17th-century Tsar, co-stars including Omar Sharif and Vanessa Redgrave and half the Red Army as extras, they had much to boast about.

    But what they tried to keep secret was that Schell walked out four weeks before completing his contract and the producers hired a double to replace him.

    The double was unknown English actor Denis DeMarne, who was flown to Rome where an Italian make-up artist took a mould of his face. From this he built a false chin and false nose, and back on the set in Russia, after daily make-up sessions lasting from three to five hours, DeMarne became Schell as the Tsar.

    This was not just for long shots – DeMarne had to learn fifty pages of dialogue and filmed for 14 hours a day for three weeks, eventually appearing in the leading role for over one hour in the six-hour series.

    Until he blew the gaff trying to improve his fee, the switch was undetected. It made little difference of course.

    The series (shown on the BBC in Britain) seemed to last as long as the Romanov’s themselves.

    Peter the Great it wasn’t. All that money, all those miles of film and it rated just Peter the so-so.

    Peter the Great
    Maximilian Schell
    Sophia 

    Vanessa Redgrave
    Prince Feodor Romodanovsky 

    Omar Sharif 
    Sir Isaac Newton 

    Trevor Howard
    King William III of Orange 

    Laurence Olivier 
    Alexander Menshikov 

    Helmut Griem
    Young Peter the Great 

    Jan Niklas
    Old Peter the Great 

    Denis DeMarne
    Charlotte 

    Elke Sommer 
    Anna Mons 

    Renée Soutendijk 
    Athalie 
    Ursula Andress
    Frederick 

    Mel Ferrer 
    Catherine Skevronskaya 

    Hanna Schygulla
    Shafirov 
    Mike Gwilym
    Count Tolstoy 

    Günther Maria Halmer
    Boyar Lopukhin 

    Olegar Fedoro 
    Patriarch 

    Jan Malmsjö 
    Natalya 

    Lilli Palmer
    Prince Vasily Golitsyn 

    Geoffrey Whitehead
    Colonel Patrick Gordon 

    Jeremy Kemp 
    Earl Sheremetief 

    Vladimir Ilin

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