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
The Mutiny of the Bounty by distributors Stanley Crick and Herbert Finlay in association with J.D. Williams and was described as "probably the most costly production yet made in Australia." Māori actors played the Tahitians who greeted crew members of the "Bounty". During shooting the unit came across a real life . Longford wanted to shoot some scenes on Pinchgut Island in Sydney Harbour but was refused with the authorities giving no reason. Attempts were made to ensure the script was as historically accurate as possible and Bligh was not as demonised as he would be in later film versions of this story. The film