MASTERPIECE: DOWNTON ABBEY SEASON 1 (U.K. EDITION)

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• Release Year: 2010
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Downton Abby - a sprawling, lavish Edwardian mansion and park nestled in the lush North Yorkshire landscape - needs an heir. Dame Maggie Smith turns in a show-stopping performance as Violet, the charmingly stubborn Dowager Countess of Grantham, matriarch of Downton and the irrefutable authority on everything. Hugh Bonneville stars as her son, the stoic, unflappable Earl of Grantham; Elizabeth McGovern plays his far-sighted American wife, Cora; and a star-studded cast round out the glittering, gossipy, and beguiling men and women of this epic tale from Academy Award-winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park).; ; After a tragedy at sea claims the life of the presumed heir, Lord Grantham is faced with the possibility that the house he's loved his whole life might someday belong to a distant cousin he's never met. But before he can worry about that he must deal with his scandalous daughter, Lady Mary - considered by many to be the rightful heir to Downton. Even the staff has opinions on the family's affairs. And while most are devoted to those they serve, there are others whose selfishness and scheming do more than simply disrupt the well-oiled inner workings of the estate. As the servants' mischief escalates, even the most faithful employees begin to imagine a different life.; ; Pitting hundreds of years of British aristocracy against the tides of social upheaval and technical progress, under the looming shadow of World War I, will the fate of Downton and its family - above and below the stairs - be resolved? Or will life be altered so dramatically that its master no longer matters? ;
• Cast: Hugh Bonneville; Laura Carmichael; Jim Carter; Brendan Coyle; Michelle Dockery; Joanne Froggatt; Rob James-Collier; Phyllis Logan; Elizabeth McGovern; Sophie McShera; Lesley Nicol; Maggie Smith; Penelope Wilton; Kevin Doyle; Allen Leech; David Robb; Dan Stevens; Siobhan Finneran; Raquel Cassidy; Jessica Brown Findlay; Lily James; Samantha Bond; Matt Milne; Ed Speleers; Amy Nuttall; Jeremy Swift; Douglas Reith; Paul Copley; Cara Theobold; Thomas Howes; Tom Cullen; Michael Fox; Howard Ward; Andrew Scarborough; Julian Ovenden; Rose Leslie; Sue Johnston; Daisy Lewis; Michael Cochrane; Matthew Goode; Zoe Boyle; Robert Bathurst; Emma Lowndes; Jonathan Coy; Harry Hadden-Paton; Charles Edwards; Patrick Brennan; Brendan Patricks; Iain Glen; Rade Serbedzija; Jason Furnival; Matt Barber; Neil Bell; Helen Sheals; MyAnna Buring; Catherine Steadman; Antonia Bernath; Clare Calbraith; Christine Lohr; Sebastian Dunn; Nigel Harman; Christine Mackie; Penny Downie; Gary Carr; James Faulkner; Phoebe Sparrow; Harriet Walter; Richard E. Grant; Peter Egan; Victoria Emslie; Lionel Guyett; Shirley Maclaine; Bernard Gallagher; Nicky Henson; Louis Hilyer; Kevin McNally; Daniel Pirrie; Christopher Rozycki; Richard Teverson; Patrick Kennedy; Charlie Anson; Maria Doyle Kennedy; Joncie Elmore; Paul Putner; Cal Macaninch; Fergus O'Donnell; Michael Culkin; Andrew Alexander; Andrew Westfield; Karl Haynes; Joanna David; Devon Black; Cathy Sara; Clare Higgins; Jake Rowley; Hayley Jayne Standing; Mark Penfold; Phoebe Nicholls; Lucille Sharp; John Voce; Ged Simmons; Stephen Ventura; Sarah Crowden; Alastair Bruce; Timothy Carlton; Nichola Burley; Martin Walsh; Charlie Cox; Alun Armstrong; Augusta Woods; Mark Morrell; Kate Bowes Renna; Colin R. Campbell; Bill Fellows; Theo James; Danny Burns; Howard Gossington; Kenneth Bryans; Di Botcher; Paul Giamatti; Christos Lawton; Ronald Pickup; Elizabeth Hill; Greg Hobbs; Roger Morlidge; Thomas Campbell; Gwendolen Chatfield; Edward Baker-Duly; Ruairi Conaghan; Jamie de Courcey; Richard Hawley; Jonathan Jaynes; Nigel Havers; Rosie Jones; Ron Donachie; Poppy Drayton; Ian Kelly; Marcus Kelly; Perry Millward; Martin Reeve; Dean Williamson; Jeremy Clyde; Dominic Kemp; James Fox; Philip Battley; Charlotte Hamblin; Graham Padden; Simon Poland; Trevor White; Terence Harvey; Yves Aubert; Oliver Dimsdale; Simon Lowe; Dean Ashton; Gerard Mcdermott; Lachlan Nieboer; Tony Pritchard; Shaun Hennessy; Alex Carter; Kieran Hodgson; Janet Montgomery; James Edgington; Sean McKenzie; Richard Hansell; Nick Sampson; John Henshaw; Edmund Kente; Tim Pigott-Smith; Tristan Beint; Spencer Cowan; Stephen Critchlow; Jonathan Howard; Ben Bradshaw; Trevor Cooper; Adrian Lukis; Erin Surtees; David Maybrick; Stephen Omer; Sharon Small; Julian Wadham; Emma Keele; Jordan Long; Nicky Bell; Michael Benz; Simon Lawson; Hannah Wood; Rick Bacon; Lucas Culff; Peter McNeil O'Connor; Simone Lahbib; Kiri Te Kanawa; Issy Van Randwyck; Holly Aston; Jamie Bradley; Roberta Kerr; Jane Lapotaire; Andrew Caley; Peter Hamilton Dyer; Nicholas Lumley; Ian Marr; Jane Wenham; Anton Saunders; David Acton; Joshua Richards; Moray Treadwell; Anna Chancellor; Alex McNally; Rupert Frazer; Patricia Hodge; Milly Thomas; David Sibley; Nigel Betts; Louise Calf; Tom Morley; Philip Wallace; Ed Cooper Clarke; James Joyce; Naomi Radcliffe; Wendy Albiston; James Greene; William Travis; Tony Turner; Richard Dempsey; Oliver Ashworth; Sophie Cosson; Alice Patten; David Keeling; Stuart Ward; Jon Glover; Matthew Jure; James Phelips; Noah Jupe; Guy Williams; Keiran Flynn; Pete Lee-Wilson; Darren Machin; Paul Prescott; Alice Shuttleworth; Kyra Williams; Michael Haydon; Laura Hydari; Susie Coats; Oliver Barker; Zac Barker; Eva Samms; Karina Samms; Fifi Hart; Julie Eagleton; Peter Agnelli; Gintare Beinoraviciute; Nicholas Blatt; Giles Spencer; James Francis Andrews; Jefferson King; Hugh O'Brien; Teresa Mahoney; Martyn Mayger; Roman Green; David G. Robinson; Roy Beck; Brian Woodward; Anthony Milton; Scott Plumridge; Deborah Wise; Graham Saxon; Lauren Beacham; Stephen Mason; Catherine Balavage; Filippo Delaunay; Andy Evason; Cara Bamford; Graham Bandy; Greg Bennett; Robert Clayton; Matthew David Hearn; Isis; Laura Jeanne; Ed Pearce; Lily-Fleur Bradbury; Jonathan Brooks; Lewis James; Christopher Longman; Glen Stanway; Martin Webbe; Matthew Canny; Christina Carty; Chris Cowlin; James Currie; Valerie Dane; James Hare; Aisling Hughes; Danielle Kingston; Cat Kolubayev; Stuart Matthews; Gemma Rourke; Edward Scott-Clarke; Paul Simmons; Evie Wray; Alister Austin; Georgina Bennett; Ethan Chapples; Alexander Cooper; Pamela Betsy Cooper; Josh Dinneen; Adam Lannon; Maya Lindh; Jason Nicholls; Yves O'Hara; Robert Roman Ratajczak; Tina Simmons; Albert Tang; Chris Townsend; Nathan Webb; Glyn Angell; Richard Bevan; Alan Billingham; Dilyana Bouklieva; Paul Leon Bridger; James H. Bristow; Cheryl Burniston; Richard Butler; Nick Davison; David Ellis; Amir Heath; Matt Jamie; Hilary Joyce; Sarah Maddocks; Rachel Marquez; Adrian Mitchell; Shaun Newnham; Dan Noye; Ross O'Connor; Nick Owenford; Vanessa Quiney; Matthew Rohman; Steven F Thompson; Brian Percival; David Evans; Phillip John; Andy Goddard; Catherine Morshead; Minkie Spiro; Brian Kelly; Michael Engler; Ben Bolt; Ashley Pearce; James Strong; Jeremy Webb; Edward Hall; Jon East; Julian Fellowes; Tina Pepler; Shelagh Stephenson
• Director: Brian Percival
• Runtime: 6:00
• Company: Carnival Films
• Media Format: Series