Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.

Jonathan Pryce
Timon

John Fortune
Poet

John Bird
Painter

Tony Jay
Merchant
David Kinsey
Jeweller

John Welsh
Flavius

Sebastian Shaw
Old Athenian
Max Arthur
Lucilius

Norman Rodway
Apemantus
Geoffrey Collins
Flaminius
Terence McGinity
Servilius

John Shrapnel
Alcibiades
Hugh Thomas
Lucius

James Cossins
Lucullus

Donald Gee
Ventidius