Lord's best-selling book
was released by Rank in
1958, and recounts the
final night on board RMS Titanic.
The film was directed by
Roy Ward Baker, and
producer William Mac-
Quitty used White Star
Line blueprints to create
life-like sets, while Titanic's Fourth Officer
Joseph Boxhall was a consultant. Despite its modest production values,
A Night to Remember is regarded by critics as the most historically
accurate of the many Titanic movies, and earned a Golden Globe award.
The story of the 'unsinkable' liner's loss in 1912 was told from the point
of view of her passengers and crew, principally Second Officer Charles
Lightoller, portrayed by Kenneth More.
Bob Ballard's discovery of the wreck of Titanic in 1985 sparked a fresh
wave of public interest in the disaster, and Lord (1917-2002) penned a
sequel, The Night Lives On (1986) and even acted as a consultant on
James Cameron's Titanic (1997).
of view of her passengers and crew, principally Second Officer Charles
Lightoller, portrayed by Kenneth More.
Bob Ballard's discovery of the wreck of Titanic in 1985 sparked a fresh
wave of public interest in the disaster, and Lord (1917-2002) penned a
sequel, The Night Lives On (1986) and even acted as a consultant on
James Cameron's Titanic (1997).
Shown on Talking Pictures TV last night, the acclaimed film featured
Geoffrey Bayldon, and thirty-four future Doctor Who cast and crew
connections:
- Honor Blackman (Mrs. Lucas) was Professor Sarah Lasky in Terror of the Vervoids, then voiced Queen Anahita for Big Finish's The Children of Seth (2011)
- Roanld [John] Allen (Clarke) was Rago in The Dominators, and Professor Ralph Cornish in The Ambassadors of Death
- Richard [Leeper] Leech [born McClelland] (Murdoch) was Gatherer Hade in The Sun Makers
- Ralph [Champion] Michael [born Shotter] (Yates) was Balaton in The Pirate Planet
- Jack [Stanley] Watling (Boxhall) was Professor Edward Travers in The Abominable Snowmen, The Web of Fear and Downtime
- Harold [born Israel] Goldblatt (Guggenheim) was Professor Dale in Frontier in Space
- Andrew Keir [born Buggy] (Hesketh) and Roger Avon (Reginald Lee) both starred in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD, as [Peter] Wyler and Wells - Avon was also Saphadin in The Crusade, and Daxtar in (episode 4 of) The Daleks' Master Plan
- Philip Ray [born Roy Edgar Cochrane] (Anderson) was Professor Daniel Eldred in The Seeds of Death
- Jeremy Bulloch (Boy) was Hal in The Time Warrior
- George [Alphonsus] Cooper (Hughes) was Cherub in The Smugglers
- Glyn [born Glyndwr Desmond] Houston (Stoker) was Professor [Owen] Watson in The Hand of Fear, and Colonel Ben Wolsey in The Awakening
- Robert James [born McAllister] (Hesketh) was Lester in The Power of the Daleks, and the High Priest in The Masque of Mandragora
- [Alan Edgar] Stratford Johns (Crewman) was Monarch in Four to Doomsday
- Howard Lang [born Donald Yarranton] (Chief Officer Henry Wilde) was Horg in 100,000 BC
- Derren Nesbitt [born Horwitz] (Stoker) was Tegana in Marco Polo, and voiced Thomas Dodd for Spare Parts (2002) and Ordinal-General Quences for Auld Mortality (2003)
- Richard [Henry] Beale (Pilot) provided the Refusian Voice in The Ark, was Bat Masterson in The Gunfighters, Broadcast Voice in The Macra Terror, and the Minister in The Green Death (3)
- Peter Brace (Stoker) was Guard in The Curse of Peladon (4), and Soldier in The Android Invasion (2)
- George Curtis (Steward) was Soldier in The War Games (1)
- [Phokion Stavros] Steve Plytas (Greek Passenger) was Wigner in The Tenth Planet
- Mavis Ranson (Passenger) was a Schoolgirl in An Unearthly Child
- [Max] Richard Shaw (Crewman) was Lobos in The Space Museum, Cross in Frontier in Space, and Lakh in Underworld
- Bart Allison [born Henry James Patrick] (Drunk) was Maximus Pettulian in The Romans (1)
- Keith Anderson (Asst. Purser) was Maximilien Robespierre in The Reign of Terror
- [Cathal] Max [Parnell Macaulay Lloyd] Faulkner (Waiter) was UNIT Soldier in The Ambassadors of Death, Exxilon in Death to the Daleks (1), Miner in The Monster of Peladon (6), Guard Captain in Planet of the Spiders (4), Thal Guard in Genesis of the Daleks (3), Crewman in Planet of Evil (1), Corporal Adams in The Android Invasion, and Nesbin in The Invasion of Time
- Maurice [Edward] Bush (Crewman) was an Ogron in Day of the Daleks and Frontier in Space
- [James Henry] Laurence Archer (Guest) and John Adams (Passenger) were both seen in The Underwater Menace, as Man and Priest - Archer was also Coven member/Villager in The Daemons, with Ernest Blyth (Passenger)
- Jim Brady [born George Clifford Watkin] (Engineer) and Eddie Dillon (Waiter) were both Extras in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
- Pauline Challoner (Child) auditioned for the role of Victoria Waterfield in April 1967
- Jack [James] Silk was a stuntman on The Daemons too
- David Harcourt was a camera operator on both Dalek feature films too

