Virginia Field as Polly [a waitress at the coffee house who loves Jonathan] Douglas Scott as Horatio Nelson George Sanders as Lord Everett Stacy J. M. Kerrigan as Brook Watson Una O'Connor as Widow Blake [Jonathan's aunt] Forrester Harvey as Percival Potts Gavin Muir as Sir Gavin Gore E. E. Clive as Magistrate Miles Mander as Jukes Montagu Love as Hawkins Arthur Hohl as 1st. Captain Robert Greig as Lord Drayton Lumsden Hare as Captain Suckling Will Stanton as Smutt Murray Kinnell as Reverend Nelson Billy Bevan as Innkeeper Elsa Buchanan as Servant Girl Georges Renavent as French Lieutenant Reginald Barlow as 2nd. Captain May Beatty as Lady Markham Lester Matthews as Captain Hardy Vernon Steele as Sir Thomas Lawrence Barlowe Borland as Joshua Lamb Hugh Huntley as Prince of Wales Charles Croker-King as Willoughby Ivan Simpson as Old Man Holmes Herbert as Spokesman Charles McNaughton as Waiter Leonard Mudie as Waiter Charles Coleman as Waiter Thomas Pogue as Benjamin Franklin Yorke Sherwood as Dr. Sam Johnson Arthur Blake as Member of Jonathan's Syndicate (uncredited) Winter Hall as Dr. Beatty (uncredited) Olaf Hytten as Telescope Man (uncredited) Reception The New York Times wrote, "Lloyd's of London ... is a pleasing photoplay, crammed with authentic detail of the Georgian England where its scene is laid ... threaded by a semi-fictional story of romance and business daring. Under the graphic direction of the veteran Henry King, a cast that is capable down to its merest fishmonger and chimney sweep brings alive to the screen the London of the waning years of the eighteenth century and the early years of the next ...." Writing for The Spectator, Graham Greene gave the film a mildly positive review, characterizing it as "a fairly astute piece of sentimentality which occasionally overreaches itself". Greene's chief complaint was about the film's authenticity in that the stage would at times become "a little too packed with historical figures rather oddly juxtaposed", and that the mannerisms of Madeleine Carroll and the overall dialogue made it instantly obvious that this was an American film. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, one for Best Art Direction by William S. Darling and the other for Best Film Editing by Barbara McLean. Lloyd's of London was the second of the 29 films directed by Henry King that McLean edited. References Footnotes Citations External links 1936 films 1930s historical drama films American historical