Overview
Jack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account of the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The series coincided with the 100th anniversary of the murders.
Cast
- Michael Caine as Inspector Frederick Abberline
- Jane Seymour as Emma
- Lewis Collins as Sergeant George Godley
- Armand Assante as Richard Mansfield
- Lysette Anthony as Mary Jane Kelly
- Michael Gothard as George Lusk
- T. P. McKenna as O'Connor
- Richard Morant as Dr. Acland
- Christopher Fulford as Beggar
- Harry Andrews as Coroner Wynne Baxter