Harriet Vane (US: "The Haunted Honeymoon"), with Robert Montgomery as Peter Wimsey. However, the film bore little resemblance to Sayers' writing, and she refused to even see it. Vane was played by Harriet Walter in the 1987 BBC television adaptations of "Strong Poison", "Have his Carcase" and "Gaudy Night" and by Emily Richard in the 1988 stage adaptation of "Busman's Honeymoon" at The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. In a 2005 BBC audio production of Gaudy Night, Harriet Vane was played by Joanna David. Harriet Vane Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy
Peter Vaughan Sayers' Peter Wimsey novel Busman's Honeymoon, and as Denethor in the 1981 BBC Radio production of "The Lord of the Rings". Vaughan's first breakout role was in 1964 as Ed in Joe Orton's work "Entertaining Mr Sloane" performed at Wyndham's Theatre. The first of Vaughan's two marriages was to Billie Whitelaw, whom he married in 1952 and divorced in 1966. His second wife was actress Lillias Walker, with whom he lived in the village of Mannings Heath, in West Sussex until his death, having previously lived in Crawley. His stepdaughter Victoria Burton (actress and producer) is married to Gregor Fisher.