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8 unusual facts about The Forsyte Saga


Bayswater Road

It is where the fictional upper-middle class Forsyte family live in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga.

C. Buddingh'

He translated many English books into Dutch, including The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy and A Clockwork Orange, together with his son Wiebe.

Fay Compton

One of her last major roles was as Aunt Ann in the BBC's 1967 television adaptation of The Forsyte Saga.

Indian summer

In the UK, observers knew of the American usage from the mid-19th Century onwards, and The Indian Summer of a Forsyte is the metaphorical title of the 1918 second volume of The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy.

Llandudno Pier

Llandudno Pier is often chosen for Victorian and Edwardian seaside filming locations, notably for the 2002 TV production of The Forsyte Saga, and in 2005, was voted "Pier of the Year 2005" by the members of the National Piers Society.

The Forsyte Saga: To Let

Soames and his wife Annette (Beatriz Batarda) host a country weekend to encourage a match between Fleur and Michael however Fleur is pining for the loss of Jon and does not warm to Michael’s advances.

Many of the original cast members returned including Damian Lewis as Soames, Gina McKee as Irene and Rupert Graves as Jolyon along with Lee Williams as Jon and Emma Griffiths Malin as Fleur.

The serial portrays the last book of The Forsyte Saga, To Let, following the successful adaptation of the first two books and the first interlude in 2002.


After Thomas

It stars Keeley Hawes (Spooks, Under the Greenwood Tree, Tipping The Velvet, Ashes to Ashes), Ben Miles (Coupling, Prime Suspect, The Forsyte Saga), Andrew Byrne, Sheila Hancock and Duncan Preston.

That Forsyte Woman

It is an adaptation of The Man of Property, the first novel in The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy.

Weymouth Pavilion

Finally, the Pavilion re-opened to the public in May 1950 under a new name, The Ritz Theatre, and the first film shown to the public was The Forsyte Saga.


see also

Declaration of Reasonable Doubt

John Galsworthy (1867–1933, English novelist and playwright, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize for literature. Best known for The Forsyte Saga and its sequels): Described Oxfordian J. Thomas Looney's Shakespeare Identified as "the best detective story" he had ever read.