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189 cast members |
Name | Episodes | Known for |
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Huw Wheldon
Self - Presenter / Self - Commentator / Self - Introduction / Self - Interviewer / Self - Narrator
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44
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Jonathan Miller
Self - Presenter / Self
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11
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John Berger
Self - Presenter / Self - Presenter 'Why So Thin' / Self - Presenter, 'Friso ten Holt' / Self - Presenter, 'Picasso'
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5
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Robert Robinson
Self - Interviewer / Self / Self - Presenter
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4
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John Betjeman
Self / Self - Poet
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3
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Annette Robertson
Alfred Jarry / Gaby Dupont
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2
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Peter Brett
Bluebeard / Mr. Elgar
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2
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Pauline Boty
Prostitute / Self
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2
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Izabella Telezynska
Josephine / Madame Bardac
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2
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Oliver Reed
Claude Debussy / Narrator
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2
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Boris Ranevsky
Béla Bartók / Prokofiev / Rimsky-Korsakov
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2
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James Lloyd
Henri Rousseau / Self
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2
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Susan Sontag
Self / Self - Presenter 'Cheese...Andy Warhol's Studio'
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2
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Peggy Ashcroft
Self
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2
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Bert Haanstra
Self
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2
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Orson Welles
Self
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2
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Spike Milligan
Self
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1
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Robert Colquhoun
Self
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1
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David Hurn
Self
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1
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Philip Larkin
Self - Poet
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1
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Duke Ellington
Self - 'Duke Ellington'
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1
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Humphrey Lyttelton
Self - Presenter, 'Duke Ellington'
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1
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Peter Newington
Self - Presenter
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1
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Robert MacBryde
Self
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1
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Douglas Cooper
Self - Presenter, 'Picasso'
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1
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John Douglas Pringle
Self - Narrator, 'Man In A Landscape...'
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1
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Michael Caine
Self - Presenter
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1
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Peter Blake
Self
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1
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Clive Barnes
Self - Presenter, 'Rudolf Nureyev'
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1
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Alfred Hitchcock
Self - Interviewee
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1
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Vladek Sheybal
Film Director / Pierre Louÿs
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1
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Alberto Giacometti
Self - 'Why So Thin'
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1
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John Dankworth
Self - 'Duke Ellington'
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1
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Allan McClelland
Commentator
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1
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Sidney Nolan
Self - 'Man In A Landscape...'
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1
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Rudolf Nureyev
Self - 'Rudolf Nureyev'
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1
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Derek Boshier
Self
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1
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Rowena Gregory
Mrs. Elgar
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1
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Sandor Elès
Client
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1
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Bryan Pringle
Pere Ubu
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1
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George Melly
Self - Presenter 'The Middle-Class Magician'
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1
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Pablo Picasso
Self - Subject, 'Picasso'
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1
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George McGrath
Sir Edward Elgar
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1
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Peter Phillips
Self
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1
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René Magritte
Self - 'The Middle-Class Magician'
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1
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Jacqui Cook
Mere Ubu
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1
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The Johnny Dankworth Orchestra
Themselves - 'Duke Ellington'
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1
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Friso ten Holt
Self - 'Friso ten Holt'
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1
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Rosalind Watkins
Judith
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1
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Roland MacLeod
Apollinaire
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1
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Penny Service
Lily
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1
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Georgette Magritte
Self - 'The Middle-Class Magician'
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1
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John Lehmann
Self - Presenter, 'Aldous Huxley'
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1
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Vernon Dobtcheff
The Actor
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1
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Aldous Huxley
Self - 'Aldous Huxley'
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1
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Andy Warhol
Self - 'Cheese...Andy Warhol's Studio'
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1
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Stephanie Randall
Secretary
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1
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Dorothy-Rose Gribble
Eugénie
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1
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Jane Lumb
Saint Sebastian
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1
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Gerard Malanga
Self - 'Cheese...Andy Warhol's Studio'
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1
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Sheila Van Bloemen
1st Neighbour
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1
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Cilli Wang
Self - 'Cilli Wang'
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1
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Ann Mitchell
2nd Neighbour
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1
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Yvonne Antrobus
Stage Lily
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1
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Verity Edmett
Zohra, the slave girl
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1
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Joanna Rigby
Daughter
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1
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Michael Van Bloemen
Picture Dealer
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1
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Janet Fairhead
Chouchou at 13
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1
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Alison Fiske
Maeterlinck's girlfriend
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1
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Kenneth Goodare
Musician
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1
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Ian Flintoff
Stage Debussy
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1
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Paul Cameron
Musician
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1
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Elna Pearl
Vasnier daughter
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1
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Peter Matheson
Musician
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1
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Yvette Rees
Stage Madame Bardac
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1
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Jane Anderson
Musician
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1
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Audrey Searle
Madame Vasnier
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1
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Keith Smith
Reporter
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1
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Fred Taylor
Monsieur Vasnier
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1
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Emlyn Williams
Actor
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1
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Aaron Copland
Self
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1
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Mogens Wieth
Actor
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1
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P.G. Wodehouse
Self
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1
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Robert Ardrey
Self
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1
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Kingsley Amis
Self
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1
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Simon Raven
Self
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1
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Bernard Buffet
Self
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1
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Paddy Chayefsky
Self
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1
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Paul Robeson
Self
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1
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Bernard Miles
Self
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1
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Leonard Bernstein
Self
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1
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Jerome Robbins
Interviewee
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1
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Georges Simenon
Self
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1
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1
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William Golding
Self
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1
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Frank Duncan
Narrator
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1
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Robert Graves
Self
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1
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Tyrone Guthrie
Self
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1
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Fritz Kortner
Self
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1
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T.H. White
Self
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1
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Joan Littlewood
Self
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1
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Humphrey Burton
Commentator
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1
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Jacques Deval
Self
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1
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Gerry Raffles
Self
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1
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Yehudi Menuhin
Self
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1
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1
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Wanda Landowska
Self
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1
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Davina Dundas
Singer guitarist
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1
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Thurston Dart
Self
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1
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Jacques Lipchitz
Self
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1
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Thomas Beecham
Self
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1
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Teresa Power
Spectator
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1
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Evelyn Wilding
Cleaner
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1
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Arvo Boys
Actor
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1
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Alfred Wallis
Self
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1
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John Wiliams
Concert guitarist
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1
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Mr. Skinner
Instructor
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1
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Frank Duncan
Commentator
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1
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Laurie Griffiths
Boy learning guitar
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1
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Gordon Jacob
Self
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1
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Len Williams
Instructor
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1
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Davy Graham
Self
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1
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Rod Steiger
Self
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1
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Harold Pinter
Self
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1
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John Mortimer
Self
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1
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Shelagh Delaney
Self
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1
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Mary McCarthy
Self
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1
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W.H. Auden
Self
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1
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Marie Rambert
Self
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1
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John Cranko
Self
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1
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Rudolf Bing
Self
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1
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Henry Moore
Self
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1
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George Lamming
Self
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1
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Edgar Mittelholzer
Self
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1
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Ian Bannen
Hamlet / Self - Interviewee
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1
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Lotte Lenya
Actress
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1
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Katina Paxinou
Self
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1
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Harold Lang
Self - Acting Teacher
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1
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Peter Wood
Self = Interviewee
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1
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Miss Varnavides
Young Prokofiev
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1
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Joyce Rathbone
Music Teacher
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1
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Michael Shaw
Walk on
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1
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Annette Michelson
Reading Russian score
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1
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James Forty
Actor
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1
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Philip Jenkins
Hands playing piano
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1
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V.P. Gregoriy
Zhdanov
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1
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James Earl Jones
Prince of Morocco
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1
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George C. Scott
Shylock
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1
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Joseph Papp
Self
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1
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Peter O'Toole
Self
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1
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Michael Hordern
Preacher (The Sermon)
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1
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Kenneth Williams
Self
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1
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Gillian Lynne
Self
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1
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Alita Naughton
Model
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1
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Ernest Milton
Self
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1
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Ben Shahn
Self
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1
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Robert Jacobsen
Self
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1
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Hans Keller
Self
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1
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Frank McEwen
Self
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1
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Lukas Foss
Self
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1
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Tortelier
Self
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1
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Barry Humphries
Self
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1
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Evelyn Waugh
Self
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1
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1
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Claude Lévi-Strauss
Self
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1
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Margaret Dale
Self
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1
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Robert Rauschenberg
Self
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1
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Joe Tilson
Self
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1
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Anthony Storr
Self
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1
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Norman Mailer
Self
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1
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Malcolm Muggeridge
Self
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1
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Don McCullin
Self
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1
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Naum Gabo
Self
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1
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Evelyn Rothwell
Self
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1
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John Barbirolli
Self
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1
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Barry Evans
Student (uncredited)
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1
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Ken Russell
Bit part (uncredited)
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1
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Janet Lynn
Bit part (uncredited)
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1
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Carmen Dene
Girl (uncredited)
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1
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Delia Wicks
Girl (uncredited)
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1
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Maurice Bush
Thug (uncredited)
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1
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Lance George
Extra (uncredited)
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1
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David Williscroft
Extra (uncredited)
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1
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Fran Browne
Extra (uncredited)
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1
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Victoria Russell
Chouchou (uncredited)
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1
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Peter Munt
Horse-handler (uncredited)
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1
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David Brewster
Extra at funeral / war sequence (uncredited)
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1
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Kathy Fitzgibbon
Extra at funeral / war sequence (uncredited)
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1
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Frank Sussman
Extra at funeral / war sequence (uncredited)
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1
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