On screen
Cast
438 credited performers
Peter Sallis
Character not listed
Eleanor Bron
Self
John Gielgud
Self
Ralph Richardson
Self
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self - Narrator
André Previn
Self
Michael Hordern
Self - Narrator (voice)
Ken Russell
Self
Eric Morecambe
Self
Ernie Wise
Self
Roger Waters
Character not listed
Claire Bloom
Self
Ginger Baker
Self
John Bird
Self
Tommy Steele
Self
Sergei Diaghilev
Self
J. B. Priestley
Self
Jack Bruce
Self
Adrian Boult
Self
Noël Coward
Self
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Self
Jack Shepherd
Gaughin
Marcel Marceau
Character not listed
Ella Fitzgerald
Self
Barry Norman
Self - Presenter
Barry Humphries
Sir Les Patterson
Laurence Olivier
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self
Gore Vidal
Self
David Bowie
Character not listed
Michael Gambon
Character not listed
Richard E. Grant
Character not listed
Plácido Domingo
Self
Germaine Greer
Self
András Schiff
Self
George Lucas
Character not listed
Rick McCallum
Self
Douglas Adams
Self
Dudley Moore
Self
Syd Barrett
Self (archive footage)
Val Penny
Martha Bonnard
David Gilmour
Self
Joe Boyd
Self
Nick Mason
Self
Ray Bolger
Character not listed
Don Black
Character not listed
Eric Burdon
Self
Anthony Burgess
Self
Donovan
Self
George Harrison
Self
Jimi Hendrix
Self
Mick Jagger
Self
John Lennon
Self
Paul McCartney
Self
Ringo Starr
Self
Pete Townshend
Self
Frank Zappa
Self
Erika Bergmann
Fallen Woman
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Self
John Cleese
Self
Ian Hislop
Self
Vanessa Redgrave
Self
Donald Sinden
Self
Dennis Waterman
Self
Alec Guinness
Self
Paul Rogers
Self
Orson Welles
Self - Presenter
Lillian Bronson
Cissie Chandler
Sue Lloyd
Linda Loring
Sarah Marshall
Muriel
Graham Greene
Self (voice)
James Bolam
Pinkie
Cyril Cusack
The Whisky Priest
Scott Forbes
Scobie
Sean Connery
Self
George Lazenby
Self (archive footage)
Lois Maxwell
Self
Diana Rigg
Self
Patrick Stewart
Cyrus Redding
Kenneth Colley
Hitler
Vladek Sheybal
Joseph Goebbels
Kenneth More
Self
Marius Goring
Self - Interviewee
Frank Dungan
Self - Narrator
Frank Duncan
Self - Narrator
Robert Shaw
Self
Ann Firbank
Beatrice Hastings
Catherine Schell
Lunia
John Shrapnel
Zborowski
David de Keyser
Self - Narrator
Hylda Baker
Self
Marti Caine
Self
Olga James
Self
Scarlet O'Hara
Self
Christine Pilgrim
Self
Beryl Reid
Self
Terri Rogers
Self
Mary Sheen
Self
Denholm Elliott
Self
Sheila Hancock
Self
Anna Massey
Self
Victor Spinetti
Self
Judi Dench
Self - Reading Poetry
Roy Dotrice
Astronaut
Ian McKellen
Self - Reading Poetry
Joseph Conrad
Self
Dmitri Chostakovitch
Self
Oscar Peterson
Self
Stan Laurel
Self
Oliver Hardy
Self
Auguste Rodin
Self
Charlie Chaplin
Self
Kyra Nijinsky
Self
Claes Oldenburg
Self
Irving Berlin
Self
Benny Green
Narrator
Roy Castle
Narrator
Henry Livings
Self
Benjamin Britten
Self
John M. East
Self
Jacqueline du Pré
Self
Edith Evans
Self
Ambrose Coghill
Colonel
George Woodbridge
Hotel Proprietor
Nora Gordon
Proprietress
Freda Dowie
Maid
Benvenuto Cellini
Self
Abel Gance
Self
Frederick Delius
Self
Eric Fenby
Self
Eric Clapton
Self
Lawrence Durrell
Self
Margot Fonteyn
Self
George Robey
Self
Malcolm Sargent
Self
Christopher Isherwood
Self
Ian Fleming
Self
Virginia Woolf
Self
Anna Pavlova
Self
Richard Strauss
Self
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Self
Edward Heath
Self
Peter Ustinov
Self
Humphrey Jennings
Self
Robert Shaw
Self
George Orwell
Self
Brendan Behan
Self
Marcel Proust
Self
Richard Tauber
Self
Giacomo Puccini
Self
Ingrid Bergman
Self
James Mossman
Self
Glenda Jackson
Self
David Lean
Self
Stan Barstow
Self
John Barbirolli
Self
Bruno Walter
Self
Tyrone Guthrie
Self
Rudolf Bing
Self
Groucho Marx
Self
Christopher Plummer
Narrator
George Bernard Shaw
Self
Vincent van Gogh
Self
Max Beerbohm
Self
Andy Warhol
Self
Robert Helpmann
Self
François Truffaut
Self
Joe Pass
Self
Bobby Durham
Self
Keter Betts
Self
Alan Price
Self
William Butler Yeats
Self
Ninette de Valois
Self
Johnny Mercer
Self
Clive Exton
Self
Tom Stoppard
Self
George Curtis
Self
Marilyn Galsworthy
Feodora
Humphrey Burton
Self - Presenter
Peter Barkworth
Thomas Mann
Peter Woodthorpe
Cipolla, the 'magician'
Beatrix Lehmann
Narrator(voice)
Celia Johnson
Ellen Edgeworth
Roland Culver
Duncan Edgeworth
Deborah Norton
Nance Edgeworth
Joseph Blatchley
Grant Edgeworth
Edward Fox
Self
Busby Berkeley
Self
György Ligeti
Self
Charles Marowitz
Self
Richard Avedon
Self
Michael Smee
Self - Narrator
Mark Dignam
Paul Nash(voice)
Jacques Tati
Self
Gavin Millar
Self
David Attenborough
Self
Gene Kelly
Self
Kenneth Griffith
Self - Presenter
C.L.R. James
Self
Clive Lloyd
Self
Rick Wakeman
Self
Bob Hoskins
Self
Brian Eno
Self
Menahem Golan
Self
Yoram Globus
Self
Linus Roache
Vincent Van Gogh
Jim Broadbent
Roulin
Doris Lessing
Self
Quentin Tarantino
Self
Lawrence Bender
Self
Steve Buscemi
Self
Harvey Keitel
Self
Sally Menke
Self
Stacey Sher
Self
Dominick Dunne
Self
Brett Anderson
Self
Storm Thorgerson
Self
Willem de Kooning
Self
Harish Patel
Self
Curtis Mayfield
Self
Jerry Butler
Self
Fred Cash
Self
Sam Gooden
Self
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self
Jimmy Perry
Self
David Croft
Self
Ginger Rogers
Self (archive footage)
Leslie Megahey
Narrator (voice)
Dave Stewart
Self
Brian Wilson
Self
Isabel Allende
Self
Robert Harris
Self
Alan Bennett
Self
David Frost
Self
Peter Cook
Self (archive footage)
Paul Verhoeven
Self
Rutger Hauer
Narrator (voice)
Alec McCowen
Narrator (voice)
Gabriel Cinque
Paul Cezanne
Michael Frayn
Self
Eve Arnold
Self
Anjelica Huston
Self
Iman
Self
Isabella Rossellini
Self
Howard Hodgkin
Self
Rudolf Nureyev
Self (archive footage)
Hannah Gordon
Narrator
Shintarō Katsu
Self
Lennox Lewis
Self
Emma Bunton
Self
Miloš Forman
Self
Simon Callow
Self
Larry Flynt
Self
Elizabeth McGovern
Self
Miroslav Ondříček
Self
Vincent Schiavelli
Self
Louise Fletcher
Self
Jo Whiley
Narrator (voice)
Irvin Kershner
Self
Walter Murch
Self
Mark Hamill
Self
Harrison Ford
Self
Anthony Daniels
Self
Jack Rosenthal
Self
Corin Redgrave
Self
Dick Clement
Self
Ian La Frenais
Self
Sarah Patterson
Liz Ameer
Mace Richards
Character not listed
Vic Reeves
Self
Bob Mortimer
Self
Matt Lucas
Self
Ulrika Jonsson
Self
Mark Lamarr
Self
Charlie Higson
Self
Michael Bracewell
Self - Presenter
Jim Sheridan
Self
Roberta Guaspari
Self
Mike Leigh
Self
Nick Hornby
Self
Jeffrey Archer
Self
Richard Branson
Self
Julia Sawalha
Self
Bob Geldof
Self
Nadia Sawalha
Self
Nadim Sawalha
Self
Alan McGee
Self
Malcolm McLaren
Self
Steve Sutherland
Self
Liam Gallagher
Self
Noel Gallagher
Self
Zizi Jeanmaire
Self
Darcey Bussell
Self
Ian Dury
Self - Narrator
Billy Fury
Self (archive footage)
Julie Andrews
Self (archive footage)
Dilly Barlow
Narrator (voice)
Jayne Casey
Self
Jimi Cauty
Self
Bill Drummond
Self
Simon Needs
Pierre Bonnard
Verne Morgan
Bonnard's chauffeur
Geoffrey Collins
Bonnard
Mickey Rooney
Self
Judy Garland
Self (archive footage)
Bosley Crowther
Self
Anthony Quinn
Self
Jeremy Clyde
Schalcken
Maurice Denham
Dou
Cheryl Kennedy
Rose
John Justin
Vanderhousen
Charles Gray
Narrator
Anthony Sharp
Gentleman
Anne Tirard
Brothel Madame
Roy Evans
Coachman
Eric Francis
Goldsmith
Victor Dear
Manservant
Rosemary Jenner
Maidservant
Amanda Carlson
Francoise
Helena Clayton
Hendrijke
Charles Stewart
Rembrandt
Raymond Huntley
Self
Cyril Luckham
Self
Eric Portman
Self
Dean Martin
Character not listed
Michael Caine
Character not listed
Celia Imrie
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Matthew Kelly
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Victoria Wood
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Miriam Margolyes
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Robert Lindsay
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Steven Spielberg
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Liam Neeson
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Natalie Portman
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David West Reynolds
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Ewan McGregor
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Roddy Doyle
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Steve Martin
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Debbie Harry
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Tom Paulin
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Fay Weldon
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Margaret Drabble
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Andrew Davies
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Bill Paterson
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Justine Waddell
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Sue Perkins
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Stephen King
Character not listed
Jennifer Saunders
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John Ruskin
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Sidney Poitier
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Antony Gormley
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Elizabeth Taylor
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Angela Lansbury
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Jeanine Basinger
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Shirley MacLaine
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Mathilde Krim
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Rod Steiger
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Nick Park
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Terry Gilliam
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Leonard Maltin
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David Sproxton
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Ray Harryhausen
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Peter Lord
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Vinnie Jones
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John Barry
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Barbara Broccoli
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Jon Burlingame
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George Martin
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Alicia Markova
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Kingsley Amis
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Nancy Mitford
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Fred Astaire
Character not listed
Sammy Davis Jr.
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Rusty Frank
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Gregory Hines
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Frances Barber
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Martine McCutcheon
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Sebastian Faulks
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Dino De Laurentiis
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Clive Anderson
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Stephen Fry
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Terry Jones
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Griff Rhys Jones
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Simon Jones
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David Hockney
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Kirsty Wark
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Joan Plowright
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Jamie Bell
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Russell Crowe
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Stephen Daldry
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Julie Walters
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Frank Auerbach
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Anthony Trollope
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Chuck Jones
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Lucille Ball
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Graham Coxon
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Duggie Fields
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Robyn Hitchcock
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Peter Jenner
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Mick Rock
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Richard Wright
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Jerry Shirley
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Bo Powell
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Bob Klose
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J.K. Rowling
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Mario Testino
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Diana, Princess of Wales
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Robert Altman
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Stephen Altman
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Kenneth Branagh
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Andrew Dunn
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Julian Fellowes
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Bryan Forbes
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Stephen Frears
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Nigel Hawthorne
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Helen Mirren
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Dan Cruickshank
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Edna O'Brien
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Sanjeev Bhaskar
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Simon Fanshawe
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A.R. Rahman
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Shekhar Kapur
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Anthony Hopkins
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Patricia Cornwell
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Ed Sulzbach
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Donald Rumbelow
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Linda Fairstein
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Michael Foot
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Annie Proulx
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Rhoda Lewis
Lady Ranelagh
Tilly Vosburgh
Erika Mann
Saskia Reeves
Self
Barry Foster
John Stanley
Martin Jarvis
Alan
Antony Carrick
Film director
Suzan Farmer
Kathleen