
Houghton Lodge has been used as the location for some wonderful television
dramas and films, particularly popular with film makers because there are no
power lines or any other 21st century features in view from the
house.
Houghton was used as Betsey Trotwood’s house in the BBC’s
adaptation of David Copperfield with Dame Maggie Smith, Trevor Eve, Zoe
Wanamaker, and Daniel Radcliffe, and the film ‘Wilde’ with Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde and and Jude
Law as Lord Alfred Douglas. More recently we have had two Rosamund Pilcher
TV productions for German viewers.
It has also been used as the Vicarage in Agatha
Christie’s ‘Murder at the Vicarage’ with Paul Eddington and the lovely late
Joan Hickson (pictured left) as the inquisitive Miss Marple.
The wonderful costume drama of Edith Wharton’s book ‘The Buccaneers’ was
shot here, the pier by the river was built especially for this production
and it has been such a success that we have never taken it down!
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