Top billed cast

1. 

   Ian Richardson

   Francis Urquhart

2. 

   Susannah Harker

   Mattie Storin

3. 

   Miles Anderson

   Roger O'Neill

4. 

   Alphonsia Emmanuel

   Penny Guy

5. 

   Malcolm Tierney

   Patrick Woolton

6. 

   Diane Fletcher

   Elizabeth Urquhart

7. 

   William Chubb

   John Krajewski

8. 

   David Lyon

   Henry Collingridge

9. 

   Isabelle Amyes

   Anne Collingridge

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Season 1

1990 | 4 Episodes

Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-06-06

As political dramas go, they just don't come any better than this - and Ian Richardson proves a master as an epitome of an ambitious schemer that even Machiavelli would have been proud of. He is "Urquhart", the chief whip of a government under new leadership. It's "Collingwood" (David Lyon) who takes the top job, but when he decides against promoting this local secret-keeper, he makes quite a mistake. Fuelled by his conceivably even more ambitious wife "Elizabeth" (Diane Fletcher) and taking advantage of the naive and malleable young journalist "Mattie" (Susannah Harker) he starts on a wonderf...read the rest

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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
House of Cards

Keywords

• based on novel or book
• miniseries
• british politics
• british prime minister
• political intrigue