American Friends
Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
Michael Palin
Rev. Francis Ashby
Trini Alvarado
Elinor Hartley
Connie Booth
Caroline Hartley
Alfred Molina
Oliver Syme
Bryan Pringle
Haskell
Jonathan Firth
Cable
Susan Denaker
Mrs. Cantrell
David Calder
Pollitt
Robert Eddison
Rushden - The President
Simon Jones
Anderson
Fred Pearson
Hapgood
Ian Dunn
Gowers
Charles McKeown
Maynard
Roger Lloyd Pack
Dr. Butler
John Nettleton
Groves
Alun Armstrong
Dr. Weeks
Sheila Reid
Mrs. Weeks
Charles Simon
Canon Harper
Arthur Howard
Voe
Wensley Pithey
Cave
Jimmy Jewel
Ashby Senior
Jo Stone-Fewings
Undergraduate 'King Lear'
Markus Gehrig
Swiss Guide
Edward Rawle-Hicks
John Weeks