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The World Cup: A Captain's Tale is a film of genre Drama with Andrew Keir
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale (1982)
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Add to a movie listThe World Cup: A Captain's Tale is a 1982 British television sports film directed by Tom Clegg and starring Dennis Waterman, Andrew Keir, Marjorie Bland and Nigel Hawthorne. The film depicts the story of West Auckland F.C. a team of part-time players who represented England in the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy, sometimes described as the "First World Cup", in 1909 and 1911.
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Actors
Andrew Keir
(Sir Thomas Lipton)
David Bradley
(Ticer Thomas)
Nigel Hawthorne
(John Westwood)
Dennis Waterman
(Bob Jones)
Richard Griffiths
(Sidney Barron)
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