Oh! What a Lovely War 55 years old
The ever popular war games. With songs, battles & a few jokes
Satire about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time.
Credits
Oh! What a Lovely War Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Laurence Olivier He was 62, 82 years old when he died | as Field Marshal Sir John French |
| Corin Redgrave He was 30, 70 years old when he died | as Bertie Smith |
| Dirk Bogarde He was 48, 78 years old when he died | as Stephen |
| Ian Holm He was 38, now 93 years old | as President Poincare |
| Vanessa Redgrave She was 32, now 87 years old | as Sylvia Pankhurst |
| Jean-Pierre Cassel He was 36, 74 years old when he died | as French Colonel |
| Juliet Mills She was 27, now 83 years old | as Nurse |
| John Mills He was 61, 97 years old when he died | as Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig |
| Susannah York She was 30, 72 years old when she died | as Eleanor |
| Edward Fox He was 32, now 87 years old | as Aide to Field-Marshal Haig |
| Tony Vogel He was 26, 72 years old when he died | as German Soldier (uncredited) |
| John Gielgud He was 65, 96 years old when he died | as Count Leopold Von Berchtold |
| Maggie Smith She was 34, now 89 years old | as Music Hall Star |
| Ralph Richardson He was 66, 80 years old when he died | as Sir Edward Grey |
| Cecil Parker He was 72, 73 years old when he died | as Sir John |
| Michael Redgrave He was 61, 77 years old when he died | as Gen. Sir Henry Wilson |
| Phyllis Calvert She was 54, 87 years old when she died | as Lady Dorothy Haig |
| Marianne Stone She was 47, 87 years old when she died | as Mill Girl |
| Kenneth More He was 55, 67 years old when he died | as Kaiser Wilhelm II |
| Anthony Ainley He was 37, 71 years old when he died | as 3rd Aide |
| Vincent Ball He was 45, now 100 years old | as Australian Soldier |
| Steve Plytas He was 56, 80 years old when he died | as Turkish Military Attaché (uncredited) |
| Charles Farrell He was 68, 88 years old when he died | as Policeman (uncredited) |
| Natasha Parry She was 38, 84 years old when she died | as Sir William Robertson's Lady |
| Stanley Lebor He was 35, 80 years old when he died | as Soldier (uncredited) |
| Nanette Newman She was 35, now 90 years old | as Nurse |
| Angus Lennie He was 39, 84 years old when he died | as Scottish Soldier |
| Dolores Judson | as Haig's Girlfriend (uncredited) |
| Jack Hawkins He was 59, 62 years old when he died | as Emperor Franz Josef |
| Gerald Sim He was 44, 89 years old when he died | as Chaplain |
| Thorley Walters He was 56, 78 years old when he died | as Staff Officer |
| Wensley Pithey He was 55, 79 years old when he died | as Archduke Ferdinand (uncredited) |
| Maurice Roëves He was 32, now 87 years old | as George Smith |
| Christopher Cabot | as Soldier in Shell Hole (uncredited) |
| Carole Gray She was 29, now 84 years old | as Chorus Girl (uncredited) |
| John Gabriel He was 38, now 93 years old | as Nikolai Lenin (uncredited) |
| Robert Flemyng He was 57, 83 years old when he died | as Staff Officer in Gassed Trench |
| Christine Noonan She was 24, 58 years old when she died | as Mill Girl (uncredited) |
| Paul Daneman He was 43, 75 years old when he died | as Czar Nicholas II |
| Norman Shelley He was 66, 77 years old when he died | as Staff Officer in Ballroom |
| Isabel Dean She was 51, 79 years old when she died | as Sir John French's Lady |
| Derek Newark He was 36, 65 years old when he died | as Shooting Gallery Proprietor |
| John Dunn-Hill He was 16, 62 years old when he died | as Irish Soldier (uncredited) |
| Harry Locke He was 55, 73 years old when he died | as Heckler |
| Penelope Allen She was 19, now 74 years old | as Solo Chorus Girl |
| Tom Marshall | as Soldier in 'Goodbyee' (uncredited) |
| Pia Colombo She was 35, 51 years old when she died | as Estaminet Singer |
| Arthur White He was 36, now 91 years old | as Sergeant in Dugout (uncredited) |
| John Clements He was 59, 77 years old when he died | as Gen. von Moltke |
| Jeremy Child He was 25, now 80 years old | as Wealthy Young Man (uncredited) |
| Angela Thorne She was 30, now 85 years old | as Elizabeth May 'Betty' Smith |
| John Rae He was 156, 79 years old when he died | as Grandpa Smith |
| Meriel Forbes She was 55, 86 years old when she died | as Lady Pamela Grey |
| Peter Gilmore He was 38, 81 years old when he died | as Pte Burgess |
| Michael Wolf He was 15, 65 years old when he died | as German Officer (uncredited) |
| Paul Shelley He was 27, now 82 years old | as Jack Henry Smith |
| Pippa Steel She was 20, 44 years old when she died | as Scoreboard Girl (uncredited) |
| Charlotte Attenborough She was 9, now 65 years old | as Emma Smith - Age 8 (uncredited) |
| Tony Thawnton | as Officer on Telephone (uncredited) |
| Frank Forsyth He was 63, 78 years old when he died | as President Woodrow Wilson (uncredited) |
| Guy Middleton He was 61, 65 years old when he died | as Gen. Sir William Robertson |
| John Owens He was 27, now 82 years old | as Seamus Moore |
| Julia Wright | as Haig's Secretary (uncredited) |
| Christian Doermer He was 34, now 89 years old | as Fritz |
| Ben Howard He was 18, now 36 years old | as Pte Garbett |
| John Hussey | as Soldier on Balcony (uncredited) |
| Norman Bird He was 48, 84 years old when he died | as Training Sgt (uncredited) |
| Norman Jones He was 37, 80 years old when he died | as Scottish Soldier |
| David Lodge He was 34, 68 years old when he died | as Recruiting Sergeant at Music Hall |
| Ruth Kettlewell She was 56, 94 years old when she died | as Duchess Sophie (uncredited) |
| Geoffrey Davies was 26, now 81 years old | as Aide to Haig |
| Michael Bates He was 48, 57 years old when he died | as Drunk Lance Corporal |
| Jane Seymour (actress) She was 18, now 73 years old | as Chorus Girl (uncredited) |
Oh! What a Lovely War Crew
| Name | Department |
|---|---|
| John Comfort as Production Manager. | Production |
| Anthony Mendleson as Costume Design. He was 54 (81) years old when He died | Costume & Make-Up |
| Harry White as Art Direction. He was 135 (86) years old when He died | Art |
| Gerry Turpin as Director of Photography. He was 44 (72) years old when He died | Camera |
| Richard Attenborough as Director. He was 46 (90) years old when He died | Directing |
| Richard Attenborough as Producer. He was 46 (90) years old when He died | Production |
| Donald M. Ashton as Production Design. He was 50 (85) years old when He died | Art |
| Miriam Brickman as Casting. She was 52 (60) years old when She died | Production |
| Len Deighton as Screenplay. He was 40 (now 95) years old | Writing |
| Kevin Connor as Editor. He was 32 (now 87) years old | Editing |
| Joan Littlewood as Musical. She was 54 (87) years old when She died | Writing |
Oh! What a Lovely War (55 years)
The ever popular war games. With songs, battles & a few jokes
- Release day: Monday, March 10, 1969
- Runtime: 138 minutes