Canon Chasuble — The Importance of Being Earnest Character Profile

About Canon Chasuble

The local clergyman who occasionally visits the Cardew household. He holds mild romantic aspirations for Miss Prism and performs pastoral duties for the local gentry.

Character Facts

Played by

Miles Malleson

Appears in

The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

Role

Supporting

More characters from The Importance of Being Earnest

• Ernest Worthing (Michael Redgrave)
• Algernon Moncrieff (Michael Denison)
• Lady Bracknell (Edith Evans)
• Gwendolen Fairfax (Joan Greenwood)
• Conductor (Uncredited) (Ivor Barnard)
• Cecily Cardew (Dorothy Tutin)
• Miss Prism (Margaret Rutherford)
• Seton (Richard Wattis)
• Lane (Walter Hudd)
• Merriman (Aubrey Mather)