The Headmaster is a 1921 British silent comedy-drama film directed by Kenelm Foss and starring Cyril Maude, Margot Drake and Miles Malleson.^[1] It is based on the 1913 play The Headmaster by Edward Knoblock and Wilfred Coleby. The film can be summarized as a clergyman working as the headmaster of a school tries to persuade his daughter to marry the idiotic son of an influential figure in the hope of being promoted to bishop.

• Cyril Maude as Rev. Cuthbert Sanctuary
• Margot Drake as Portia Sanctuary
• Miles Malleson as Palliser Grantley
• Marie Illington as Cornelia Grantley
• Lionelle Howard as Jack Strahan
• Simeon Stuart as Dean of Carchester
• Ann Trevor as Antigone Sanctuary
• Louie Freear as Bella
• Will Corrie as Sgt. Munton
• Alan Selby as Richards
• Gordon Craig as Stuart Minor

• Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

• The Headmaster at IMDb

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