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  • Best of British (1987–1994)
  • TV Series | 25 min | Documentary
Best of British (1987–1994)
TV Series | 25 min | Documentary

Designed as entertainment for a broad audience, a comprehensive view of British cinema from the 1930s to the 1980s that examines a different theme and / or genre in each episode through the extensive use of film clips.
Seasons
5   |   4   |   3   |   2   |   1   See all
Creators
Lou Jones (creator) | Maurice Sellar (creator) | Ashley Sidaway (creator) | Robert Sidaway (creator)
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Apr 22, 1987

Release date (First episode)
1987 (United Kingdom)

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Cast

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124 cast members
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John Mills
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Anthony Quayle
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James Mason
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Margaret Lockwood
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Richard Harris
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Stanley Baker
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Kenneth More
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Stewart Granger
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Phyllis Calvert
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Patricia Roc
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Deborah Kerr
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David Niven
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Dirk Bogarde
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Margaret Rutherford
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Jack Hawkins
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Michael Redgrave
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Stanley Holloway
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Dennis Price
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Celia Johnson
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Roger Livesey
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Anton Walbrook
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Jean Kent
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Edward Rigby
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David Tomlinson
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Naunton Wayne
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Basil Radford
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Peter Sellers
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Elliott Gould
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Gabriel Byrne
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Trevor Howard
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Alec Guinness
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Cybill Shepherd
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Peter Cushing
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Laurence Olivier
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Kim Hunter
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Peter Ustinov
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Claude Rains
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Noël Coward
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Herbert Lom
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Rex Harrison
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Ingrid Pitt
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Kay Kendall
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Robert Powell
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Fay Wray
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Anthony Steel
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Leslie Howard
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Michael Craig
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Lilli Palmer
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Taina Elg
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Rachel Roberts
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Robert Donat
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Jack Buchanan
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John Gregson
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Alastair Sim
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James Donald
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Norman Wisdom
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Robert Newton
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Kathleen Byron
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William Hartnell
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Eric Porter
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Madeleine Carroll
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Bill Owen
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Edith Evans
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Richard Greene
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David Warbeck
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Oscar Homolka
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Damien Thomas
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Robert Beatty
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Percy Herbert
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Angharad Rees
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Flora Robson
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Nigel Patrick
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Bill Travers
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Kim Stanley
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Frankie Howerd
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Earl Cameron
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James Hayter
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Esma Cannon
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Kay Walsh
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Constance Cummings
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Eric Portman
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Jessie Matthews
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Kathleen Harrison
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Joy Shelton
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May Whitty
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Griffith Jones
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Patrick Holt
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Hugh Williams
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Kay Hammond
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Tony Wager
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Nova Pilbeam
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Will Hay
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Johnny Sekka
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Derrick De Marney
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Wally Patch
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Marie Versini
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Noel Willman
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Barbara Mullen
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Ronald Squire
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Jocelyn Britton
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Arthur Askey
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Desmond Tester
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Wylie Watson
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Douglass Montgomery
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Rosamund John
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Jane Baxter
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Margaret Rawlings
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Edith Sharpe
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William Dewhurst
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Kathleen Ryan
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Richard Bird
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Alan Haines
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F.J. McCormick
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W.G. Fay
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Peter Finch
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Oliver Reed
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Juliet Mills
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Howard Keel
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Richard O'Sullivan
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John Howard Davies
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Vincent Winter
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Jon Whiteley
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Virginia McKenna
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Jean Simmons
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