Trevor Howard for Best Actor. He was nominated for a BAFTA on four other occasions. and received two other Emmy nominations, one as a lead and the other as a supporting actor. He also received three Golden Globe Award nominations. Howard was reunited with Holden for "The Lion" (1962). He was Captain Bligh to Marlon Brando's Fletcher Christian in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962). He was in a TV movie production of "Hedda Gabbler" (1962) and played the title prime minister in "The Invincible Mr Disraeli" (1963), an episode of the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" for which he won an Emmy award
Mutiny on the Bounty added a level of homoeroticism to the Bligh–Christian relationship. In 1998, in advance of a BBC documentary film aimed at Bligh's rehabilitation, the respective descendants of the captain and Christian feuded over their contrary versions of the truth. Dea Birkett, the programme's presenter, suggested that "Christian versus Bligh has come to represent rebellion versus authoritarianism, a life constrained versus a life of freedom, sexual repression versus sexual licence." Footnotes References Online Newspapers Bibliography Mutiny on the Bounty The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher