Overview
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.
Cast
- Derek Jacobi as Alan Turing
- Alun Armstrong as Mick Ross
- Blake Ritson as Christopher Morcom
- Prunella Scales as Sara Turing
- Harold Pinter as John Smith
- Julian Kerridge as Ron Miller
- Richard Johnson as Dilwyn 'Dilly' Knox
- Amanda Root as Patricia 'Pat' Green
- William Mannering as Young Alan Turing