Dandelion Dead

Dandelion Dead

📺 Series 1 seasons GB
โ˜… 7.5 /10 1994

Could He Blow Them Away?

This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.

Cast

Michael Kitchen
Michael Kitchen
Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong
Sarah Miles
Sarah Miles
Catherine Armstrong
David Thewlis
David Thewlis
Oswald Martin
Lesley Sharp
Lesley Sharp
Constance 'Connie' Martin, née Davies
Peter Vaughan
Peter Vaughan
Dr. Hinks
Diana Quick
Diana Quick
Marion Glassford-Gale
Bernard Hepton
Bernard Hepton
Mr. Davies
Don Henderson
Don Henderson
Chief Inspector Crutchett
Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens
Henry Vaughan
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Chloe Tucker
Eleanor Armstrong