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
as Timon

John Fortune
as Poet

John Bird
as Painter

Tony Jay
as Merchant

David Kinsey
as Jeweller

John Welsh
as Flavius

Sebastian Shaw
as Old Athenian

Max Arthur
as Lucilius

Norman Rodway
as Apemantus

Geoffrey Collins
as Flaminius