Darkest Hour (2017) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Joe Wright.

Cast

• Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill
• Stephen Dillane as Viscount Halifax
• Lily James as Elizabeth Layton
• Ronald Pickup as Neville Chamberlain
• Ben Mendelsohn as King George VI
• Kristin Scott Thomas as Clemmie
• Nicholas Jones as Sir John Simon
• Samuel West as Sir Anthony Eden
• David Schofield as Clement Atlee
• Richard Lumsden as General Ismay
• Malcolm Storry as General Ironside
• Hilton McRae as Arthur Greenwood
• Benjamin Whitrow as Sir Samuel Hoare
• Joe Armstrong as John Evans
• Adrian Rawlins as Air Chief Marshal Dowding
• David Bamber as Admiral Ramsay
• Paul Leonard as Admiral Dudley Pound
• David Strathairn as President Roosevelt (voice)
• Eric MacLennan as Tom Leonard
• Philip Martin Brown as Sawyers
• Demetri Goritsas as Cabinet Secretary Bridges
• Jordan Waller as Randolph Churchill
• Alex Clatworthy as Diana Churchill
• Mary Antony as Mary Churchill
• Bethany Muir as Sarah Churchill
• Anna Burnett as Pamela Churchill
• Jeremy Child as Lord Stanhope
• Brian Pettifer as Lord Kingsley Wood
• Michael Gould as Lord Londonderry
• Paul Ridley as House of Commons Speaker
• Robin Pearce as Ernle Hastings
• Michael Bott as Equerry
• Olivier Broche as Reynaud
• Mario Hacquard as Daladier
• Pip Torrens as BBC Producer
• Edmund Wiseman as Actor
• Hannah Steele as Abigail Walker
• Nia Gwynne as Alice Simpson
• Ade Dee Haastrup as Marcus Peters
• James Eeles as Maurice Baker

Crew

• Joe Wright — Director
• Eric Fellner — Producer
• Lisa Bruce — Producer
• Anthony McCarten — Producer
• Douglas Urbanski — Producer
• Tim Bevan — Producer
• Anthony McCarten — Screenplay
• Bruno Delbonnel — Director of Photography
• Dario Marianelli — Original Music Composer

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