Overview - Brief Encounter

Overview

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

Cast

• Name: Celia Johnson

  Character: Laura Jesson

  Popularity: 0.4617

  

• Name: Trevor Howard

  Character: Dr. Alec Harvey

  Popularity: 1.0965

  

• Name: Stanley Holloway

  Character: Albert Godby

  Popularity: 0.5175

  

• Name: Joyce Carey

  Character: Myrtle Bagot

  Popularity: 0.284

  

• Name: Cyril Raymond

  Character: Fred Jesson

  Popularity: 0.1509

  

• Name: Everley Gregg

  Character: Dolly Messiter

  Popularity: 0.2162

  

• Name: Marjorie Mars

  Character: Mary Norton

  Popularity: 0.0703

  

• Name: Margaret Barton

  Character: Tea Room Assistant Beryl Walters

  Popularity: 0.1559