Young Winston Richard Attenborough Simon Ward Anne Bancroft Robert Shaw Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years Robert Hardy Siân Phillips The Gathering Storm Albert Finney Vanessa Redgrave Into the Storm Brendan Gleeson Janet McTeer Darkest Hour Gary Oldman John Lithgow The Crown Martin Gilbert major
Churchill has been widely depicted on stage and screen. Notable screen biographical films include Young Winston (1972), directed by Richard Attenborough and featuring Simon Ward in the title role with Anne Bancroft and Robert Shaw as his parents; Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981; co-written by Martin Gilbert), starring Robert Hardy as Churchill and Siân Phillips as Clementine; The Gathering Storm (2002), starring Albert Finney as Churchill and Vanessa Redgrave as Clementine; Into the Storm (2009), starring Brendan Gleeson as Churchill and Janet McTeer as Clementine; Darkest Hour (2017), starring Gary Oldman as Churchill. John Lithgow played Churchill in The Crown (2016–2019). Finney, Gleeson, Oldman and Lithgow all won major awards for their performances as Churchill.
