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Le Grand Charles was a 2006 French TV-drama on the life of Charles de Gaulle from 1939 to 1959, written and directed by Bernard Stora. De Gaulle was played by Bernard Farcy, Winston Churchill by David Ryall, and Franklin D. Roosevelt by Robert Hardy. Other actors in the cast included Dominic Gould, Sam Spiegel and Jay Benedict.
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Bernard Farcy Danièle Lebrun Denis Podalydès Grégori Derangère Jean-Yves Berteloot Paul de Launoy Bernard Stora David Ryall Bernard Bloch Gérard Lartigau Grégoire Oestermann Scali Delpeyrat Marc Citti Jean-Michel Molé Bernard Alane Gilles David Stéphane Boucher Nicolas Briançon Nicolas Vaude Olivier Granier Chantal Banlier Patrick Chesnais Julien Boisselier Thierry Hancisse Jacques Spiesser Philippe Magnan Robert Hardy Pascal Elso Pierre-François Dumeniaux Hubert Saint-Macary Jean-Claude Durand Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat Denis Bénoliel
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