A four-part drama adaptation about the life of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Based on Shackleton’s own journals. In 1914 Ernest Shackleton chooses to lead a team on their famous journey aboard the Endurance. When the ship is trapped and crushed by pack-ice, Shackleton and five of his men embark on a desperate 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia.
Main Cast of Shackleton
Michael Hayward
as ‘Putty’ Marston (4 episodes)
Neil Stacy
as Robert Scott (2 episodes)
Paul Hastings
as Dr. Edward Wilson (2 episodes)
Victoria Fairbrother
as Emily Dorman (2 episodes)
John Watts
as Frank Worsley (2 episodes)
Peter Dahlsen
as Frank Hurley (2 episodes)
John Wheatley
as Percy Blackborrow (2 episodes)
Martin Howells
as Alexander Macklin (2 episodes)
Stephen Tate
as Leonard Hussey (2 episodes)
Howard Bell
as Sorlle (2 episodes)
Secondary Cast of Shackleton
Frank Duncan
as William Beardmore (1 episode)
Richard Steele
as Captain England (1 episode)
John Roden
as Porter (1 episode)
Roland Oliver
as Scottish Porter (1 episode)
David Soames
as First Voter (1 episode)
Richard Latham
as Second Voter (1 episode)
Andrew Seear
as Eric Marshall (1 episode)
Victoria Fairbrother
as Emily Shackleton (1 episode)
John Drake
as Professor Edgeworth David (1 episode)
Brian Orrell
as Douglas Mawson (1 episode)
Sam Davies
as Captain Evans (1 episode)
Maurice Quick
as Mayor (1 episode)
Timothy Morand
as Dr. Edward Atkinson (1 episode)
Athene Fielding
as Kathleen Scott (1 episode)
Joanna Phillips-Lane
as 1st Girl (1 episode)
Jiggy Bhore
as 2nd Girl (1 episode)
Todd Armstrong
as Raymond Shackleton (1 episode)
Pandora Edmiston
as Cecily Shackleton (1 episode)
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