On screen
Cast
217 credited performers
Alistair Cooke
Self - Host
Leonard Bernstein
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James Daly
Narrator
Helen Hayes
Mrs. Dearth
Royal Dano
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Jonathan Harris
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Crahan Denton
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Jessica Tandy
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Joanne Woodward
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Bert Lahr
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Christopher Plummer
Thomas Mendip
Nita Talbot
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Neva Patterson
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Marian Seldes
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Richard Kiley
Actor
Philip Abbott
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Edward Binns
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Larry Blyden
Teddy Roosevelt
Peter Ustinov
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Michael Strong
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Mike Nichols
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William Windom
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Lynn Loring
Eva
Elaine May
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Berry Kroeger
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Hume Cronyn
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Conrad Janis
Self
Lloyd Bochner
First Gentleman
William Shatner
Palace Messenger
Tammy Grimes
Mary Jane Jenkins
Orson Bean
Narrator
John McGovern
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Fritz Weaver
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Barry Jones
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Victor Jory
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Shepperd Strudwick
Charles Francis Adams
E.G. Marshall
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Arthur Franz
Fred
Jack Lord
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Alexander Scourby
Odysseus
John Cassavetes
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Walter Slezak
Toine
Iggie Wolfington
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Gene Reynolds
Archie Goodwin
Ludwig Donath
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Carol Burnett
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Elliott Reid
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Michael Redgrave
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Carmen Mathews
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Bea Arthur
Ugly Witch
Lilia Skala
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William Saroyan
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Frank Sutton
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Cyril Ritchard
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Ethel Barrymore
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Eugene Ormandy
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Douglass Watson
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Nancy Wickwire
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Robert Altman
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James Mitchell
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Edwin Sherin
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Johnny Unitas
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Doro Merande
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Yul Brynner
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Charlton Heston
Self - Presenter
Nadine Conner
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Dorothy Malone
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Evelyn Rudie
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Alan Badel
Fool
Joseph Schildkraut
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Patrick McAlinney
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Lilyan Chauvin
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Mabel Paige
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Joseph Anthony
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Dickie Moore
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Vaughn Taylor
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Sal Mineo
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Edward Villella
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Herb Voland
M. Dupin
Mary Ure
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Russell Nype
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Fredric March
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Siobhán McKenna
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Carol Channing
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Arthur O'Connell
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Lew Ayres
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Phyllis Hill
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Buddy Ebsen
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George Mitchell
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James Dean
Bronco Evans
Jeff Donnell
Helen
Susan Strasberg
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Enid Markey
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Everett Sloane
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Jocelyn Brando
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Rex Harrison
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David Wayne
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Beatrice Straight
Goneril
Esther Williams
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Rosemary Harris
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Mickey Mantle
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Bruce Kirby
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Irwin Corey
Dirty Joe
Rip Torn
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Joan Diener
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Jonathan Winters
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Arthur Shields
Jacob O'Shaughnessy
Bramwell Fletcher
Earl of Kent
Dennis Patrick
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Gerald Hiken
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Judith Evelyn
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Lorne Greene
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John Beal
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Pat Stanley
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Sam Levene
Eddie
Sugar Ray Robinson
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Patricia Smith
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Orson Welles
King Lear
Charles Aidman
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Joe Mantell
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Doreen Lang
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James Pritchett
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Eddie Hodges
Boy
Jason Robards
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Patrick Adiarte
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Elizabeth Wilson
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John Marriott
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William Traylor
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Ruth McDevitt
Eva
Dick Button
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George Mathews
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Frank Marth
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Gene Kelly
Self (segment)
Addison Powell
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Robert Allen
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Natasha Parry
Cordelia
Arnold Moss
Duke of Albany
Wesley Addy
King of France
Ludi Claire
segment "The Fine Art of Murder"
Robert Eckles
Nero Wolfe
Dennis Hoey
Arthur Conan Doyle
Rex Stout
Self
Micheál Mac Liammóir
Poor Tom
Tom Clancy
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Mark Daniels
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Eartha Kitt
Self - Singer (segment "Eartha Kitt")
Ruth Draper
Self - Monologist (segment "The Children's Party")
Audrey Christie
Miss Kingsley
Jack Benny
Athanael
Lester Matthews
The Chief
Byron Foulger
Horatio
Harry Shearer
Johnny
Beverly Washburn
Angela
Ann Doran
Angela's Mother
Kevin McCarthy
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Anne Jackson
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Alan Hewitt
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Harry Bellaver
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Lilli Palmer
Anne Boleyn
Sidney Poitier
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Eva Marie Saint
Actress
Katharine Bard
Lizzie Borden
Katharine Ross
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Dick York
Nick
Scott Forbes
Duke of Cornwall
Eric Fleming
Self
Ray Walston
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Hurd Hatfield
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Paul Mazursky
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Harry Stanton
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Ed Begley
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Frances Sternhagen
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Hal March
George Bidwell
Donald Harron
Jack Purdie
Georgann Johnson
Joanna Trout
Paul Hartman
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Martin Landau
Jokanaan / John the Baptist
Darren McGavin
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Ruth White
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Hermione Gingold
Mrs. Hardcastle
Barbara Jefford
Kate Hardcastle
Art Carney
Self
John Sebastian
Self - Harmonica Player
Eli Wallach
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Jacqueline Scott
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Edward Andrews
Colonel Livingstone
Herbie Faye
Self - Performer
Bruce Gordon
Lt. Gen. James Longstreet
Wesley Lau
Maj. Gen. John B. Hood
William Smithers
Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill
Frank Aletter
Skiddy
Lee Meriwether
Beautiful Witch
Ed Asner
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Joseph Campanella
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Kay Medford
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Tom Pedi
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Joseph Ruskin
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George C. Scott
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Andrew Duggan
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Julie Newmar
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Dan Tobin
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Keenan Wynn
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George Grizzard
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Suzanne Pleshette
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Peter Falk
Charlie
John Colicos
Gen. George McClellan
Dana Elcar
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Michael Tolan
Abraham Lincoln
Geraldine Page
Governess
Bobby Clark
Painter
Tommy Rettig
Robert
Hans Conried
Iago in 'Othello' /Marcello in acted version of 'La Boheme'
Jean Marsh
Mimi in 'La Boheme'
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Captain Bluntschli
Nanette Fabray
Raina Petkoff
Kent Smith
Sergius Saranoff
Elsa Lanchester
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