In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking holiday, he meets and marries the vivacious Kathie,who becomes his helpmate at the school but sadly pre-deceases him. Just before World War One insensitive new headmaster Ralston tries to edge Chipping out but the boys rally and Sir John Rivers, an old pupil of Chipping's and now head of the board of governors, invites him to stay and,when the war breaks out and Ralston joins up, Chipping becomes the new head.
Martin Clunes
as Mr. Chipping
Victoria Hamilton
as Kathie
Conleth Hill
as Max Staefel
John Wood
as Wetherby
Patrick Malahide
as Ralston
David Horovitch
as Burnley
Christopher Fulford
as Metcalf
Harry Lloyd
as Young Rivers
James Casey
as Young Colley
Tom Roberts
as Henshaw
Rory Copus
as Alderdyce
James Byng
as Hawthorne
