Words of Love

2 February 1959. The Winter Dance party, Clear Lake, Iowa - another date on Buddy Holly's whistle-stop tour. Across the Atlantic, a schoolboy models his life on the rock 'n' roll star whose music and untimely death affected the lives of a generation.

• Colin NutleyDirector
• Philip NormanWriter

• Charlie Creed-MilesIvor
• Tom BellMr. Seaford-Warwick
• Liz SmithGran
• Valda AviksMarge
• Paul BirchardTommy Allsup
• William BrandRitchie Valens
• Alister CameronMr. Chesterton
• Ray CharlesonCarroll
• Bruce ClarkForer
• Nadia DeLemenyMaria-Elena Holly
• Eric GilchristSaxophonist
• Adam HendersonWaylon Jennings