On screen
Cast
193 credited performers
Katherine Dunham
Self
Sidney Poitier
Self
Gregory Peck
Self
Rudolf Serkin
Self
James Levine
Self
Mike Nichols
Self
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Self
Benny Carter
Self
Sean Connery
Self
Joan Sutherland
Self
Marion Williams
Self
Robert Redford
Self
Leon Fleisher
Self
Luciano Pavarotti
Self
Lynn Fontanne
Self
Isaac Stern
Self
Perry Como
Self
Merce Cunningham
Self
Marilyn Horne
Self
Twyla Tharp
Self
George Abbott
Self
George Balanchine
Self
Jessica Tandy
Self
Shirley Temple
Self
Aaron Copland
Self
Morton Gould
Self
Plácido Domingo
Self
Virgil Thomson
Self
Billy Wilder
Self
Fayard Nicholas
Self
Mstislav Rostropovich
Self
Nathan Milstein
Self
Maria Tallchief
Self
Judith Jamison
Self
Jerome Robbins
Self
Danny Kaye
Self
John Kander
Self
Tina Turner
Self
Eugene Ormandy
Self
Beverly Sills
Self
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Self
Alexandra Danilova
Self
Georg Solti
Self
Aretha Franklin
Self
Martin Scorsese
Self
James Earl Jones
Self
Lauren Bacall
Self
Van Cliburn
Self
Agnes de Mille
Self
Paul Taylor
Self
Ruby Dee
Self
Antony Tudor
Self
Ed Bradley
Self
Itzhak Perlman
Self
Harold Nicholas
Self
Alvin Ailey
Self
Morgan Freeman
Self
Stephen Sondheim
Self
Smokey Robinson
Self
Claudette Colbert
Self
John Williams
Self
Leontyne Price
Self
Elizabeth Taylor
Self
Diana Ross
Self
Pete Townshend
Self
Hume Cronyn
Self
Alexander Schneider
Self
Carol Burnett
Self
Ella Fitzgerald
Self
Gian Carlo Menotti
Self
Robert Shaw
Self
Jack Nicholson
Self
Bob Dylan
Self
Elia Kazan
Self
Lionel Hampton
Self
Victor Borge
Self
Alan Jay Lerner
Self
Pete Seeger
Self
Count Basie
Self
Alwin Nikolais
Self
Chuck Berry
Self
André Previn
Self
Neil Simon
Self
Tony Bennett
Self
Richard Rodgers
Self
Lillian Gish
Self
Johnny Cash
Self
Julie Andrews
Self
Arthur Miller
Self
Bette Davis
Self
Stevie Wonder
Self
Jack Lemmon
Self
James Cagney
Self
Irene Dunne
Self
Roger L. Stevens
Self
Tennessee Williams
Self
Benny Goodman
Self
Fred Ebb
Self
William Howard Schuman
Self
James Brown
Self
Julie Harris
Self
Arthur Mitchell
Self
James Stewart
Self
Elton John
Self
Roy Acuff
Self
Joanne Woodward
Self
Kirk Douglas
Self
Steven Spielberg
Self
Brian Wilson
Self
Fred Astaire
Self
Katharine Hepburn
Self
Edward Villella
Self
Clint Eastwood
Self
Helen Hayes
Self
Chita Rivera
Self
Ray Charles
Self
George Jones
Self
Steve Martin
Self
Cary Grant
Self
Charlton Heston
Self
Warren Beatty
Self
Willie Nelson
Self
Paul Simon
Self
Roger Daltrey
Self
Henry Fonda
Self
Frank Sinatra
Self
Edward Albee
Self
Dolly Parton
Self
Johnny Carson
Self
Quincy Jones
Self
Yehudi Menuhin
Self
Risë Stevens
Self
Jason Robards
Self
Loretta Lynn
Self
Bob Hope
Self
Angela Lansbury
Self
Leonard Bernstein
Self
Harry Belafonte
Self
Lena Horne
Self
Sammy Davis Jr.
Self
Paul Newman
Self
Gene Kelly
Self
George Burns
Self
Bill Cosby
Self
B.B. King
Self
Myrna Loy
Self
Lucille Ball
Self
Adolph Green
Self
Ginger Rogers
Self
Ossie Davis
Self
Jessye Norman
Self
Jule Styne
Self
Jacques d'Amboise
Self
Cher
Self
Betty Comden
Self
Emily Blunt
Self
Philip Glass
Self
Reba McEntire
Self
Wayne Shorter
Self
Martha Graham
Self
George Clooney
Self - Honoree
Amy Grant
Self - Honoree
Gladys Knight
Self - Honoree
Tania Leon
Self - Honoree
Bono
Self - Honoree
Adam Clayton
Self - Honoree
Larry Mullen Jr.
Self - Honoree
The Edge
Self - Honoree
Joe Biden
Self
Jill Biden
Self
Kamala Harris
Self
Marian Anderson
Self
Francis Ford Coppola
Self - Honoree
Mickey Hart
Self - Honoree
Bill Kreutzmann
Self - Honoree
Phil Lesh
Self - Honoree
Bob Weir
Self - Honoree
Bonnie Raitt
Self - Honoree
Arturo Sandoval
Self - Honoree
Walter Cronkite
Self - Master of Ceremonies
Aleksandra Danilova
Self
Don Ameche
Self
Larry Hagman
Self
Bernadette Peters
Self
Lynn Redgrave
Self
Bill Maher
Self
Jay Leno
Self
Louis C.K.
Self
Whitney Cummings
Self
Stephen A. Smith
Self
Arianna Huffington
Self
Woody Harrelson
Self
John Mellencamp
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