"Which comedy actor played 'Uriah Heap' in the 1999 BBC adaptation of ""David Copperfield""?"
David Copperfield (1999 film) television station WGBH, and first aired on American television in April 2000, as a feature in the PBS series "Masterpiece". It won a Peabody Award in 2000. The adaptation was originally written by John Sullivan, the writer of BBC sitcom "Only Fools and Horses", and would have emphasised the comic aspects of Dickens' novel. The plan was to reunite former stars David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst on-screen, with Jason playing Wilkins Micawber and Lyndhurst in the role of Uriah Heep. When Sullivan disagreed with the new direction and re-allocation of the adaptation to the BBC's drama department, he left the
David Copperfield (1999 film) David Copperfield (1999 film) David Copperfield is a two-part BBC television drama adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1850 novel of the same name, adapted by Adrian Hodges. The first part was shown on Christmas Day 1999 and the second on Boxing Day the same year. The production is notable for being the first screen work of actor Daniel Radcliffe, who would later achieve fame as the star of the "Harry Potter" films, where he would collaborate with his "David Copperfield" co-stars Maggie Smith, Zoë Wanamaker, Imelda Staunton, Dawn French and Paul Whitehouse. The series was co-produced by BBC America and Boston