The Gathering Storm (2002)

Actors

• Russell Barr (actor)
• Tim Bentinck (actor)
• Hugh Bonneville (actor)
• Jim Broadbent (actor)
• Anthony Brophy (actor)
• James Embree (actor)
• Albert Finney (actor)
• Laurie Flexman (actor)
• Kenneth Hadley (actor)
• Edward Hardwicke (actor)
• Philip Harvey (actor)
• Tom Hiddleston (actor)
• Derek Jacobi (actor)
• Gottfried John (actor)
• Ronnie Barker (actor)

Genres

• Biography
• Drama
• History

Taglines:

Germany was arming itself for war. But they didn't count on one man.

Quotes:

Winston Churchill: I'm the new First lord.::Military Guard: We know, sir.::Winston Churchill: How do you know?::Military Guard: A signal was sent to the fleet this afternoon, sir.::Winston Churchill: What signal?::Military Guard: Winston is back.::Winston Churchill: [chuckles] He bloody well is!

Winston Churchill: I like pigs. Dogs look up to you; cats look down on you; pigs treat you as equals.

Winston Churchill: Now that I'm in charge of the Navy, Mr. Hitler and his Nazi thugs had better look out. We're going to teach them a lesson that they'll never forget.

[the sound of Sarah tap-dancing can be heard through the ceiling]::Clemmie Churchill: I think she wants to do it professionally.::Winston Churchill: Annoy people?

Sir Robert Vansittart: Do you know what Lloyd George said about him? "He'd use the skin of his mother as a drum to sound his own praises."

Winston Churchill: There may be a war. I grant you that. Nevertheless we shall win.::Ralph Wigram: How can you say that? It's just mindless optimism.::Winston Churchill: [nods no] When I was at school, I had a friend called Merlind Evans. And one day we were talking about what we would do when we were grown up. And I don't know why I said this, or, why I thought it, but I said, "One day in the future, Britain will be in great danger, and it will fall to *me* to save London and the Empire."::Ralph Wigram: Schoolboy fantasy. I wanted to play for England or climb Everest.::Winston Churchill: [half nod no] My destiny. And I truly believe it.::Ralph Wigram: You're an extraordinary man, Winston.::Winston Churchill: I am, I know it.::Ralph Wigram: Nobody but you could say that sort of thing and expect people to believe it.::Winston Churchill: Destiny is what I believe in. Destiny commands. We must obey.

Winston Churchill: You're very rude to me, Inches.::David Inches: *You're* very rude to *me*, sir.::Winston Churchill: Yes but I am a great man!::[Churchill leaves]::David Inches: No, you're not. You're a stupid ole bugger.

Winston Churchill: I've lived too long, I'm in the ruck, I've drunk too deeply of the cup, I cannot spend, I cannot fuck, I'm down and out! I'm buggered up!

Winston Churchill: Thank you.::Clemmie Churchill: For what?::Winston Churchill: For being rash enough to marry me, foolish enough to stay with me, and... for loving me in a way... I though I'd never be loved.

The Gathering Storm (1974)

Actors

• Ian Bannen (actor)
• Geoffrey Bayldon (actor)
• Robert Beatty (actor)
• Richard Burton (actor)
• Michael Elwyn (actor)
• Edward Evans (actor)
• Clive Francis (actor)
• Laurence Hardy (actor)
• Robert Hardy (actor)
• John Kane (actor)
• Richard Leech (actor)
• Denis Lill (actor)
• Terence Longdon (actor)
• Ian Ogilvy (actor)
• Robin Bailey (actor)

Genres

• Biography
• Drama

Bracken, Brendan Filmography

• Royal Family at War
  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself