Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film) film performed well at the box office in the UK but was a commercial failure in the US. "Far from the Madding Crowd" received mixed to positive reviews from critics, as the film holds a 72% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 25 reviews. Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film) Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1967 British epic drama film adapted from Thomas Hardy's book of the same name. The film, starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp and Peter Finch, and directed by John Schlesinger, was Schlesinger's fourth film (and his third collaboration with Christie). It
Jonathan Firth VI (1994). In addition to his roles in the theatre, Firth has acted in cinematic films and radio dramas, narrated audiobooks, and has also made notable television appearances, such as Linton Heathcliff in "Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights" (1992); Fred Vincy in "Middlemarch" (1994); Sergeant Troy in "Far from the Madding Crowd", for which he received a nomination for best actor; Lord Arthur Goring in "An Ideal Husband" (2000); and Prince Albert in "Victoria & Albert" (2001). He portrayed Joshua in the 2000 biblical film, "In the Beginning". In 2003, he acted in the BBC's dramatised documentary "". That same year,