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| 372 cast members |
| Name | Episodes | Known for |
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Jancis Robinson
Self - Narrator
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4
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Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
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3
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Sheila Hancock
Self
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3
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Leslie Phillips
Self
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3
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Fenella Fielding
Self
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3
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Kenneth Williams
Self (archive footage)
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3
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Maureen Lipman
Self - Narrator
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3
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Andrew Ray
Self
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3
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Michael Parkinson
Self
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3
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Peter Shaffer
Self
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3
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Hugh Paddick
Self
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3
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John Lahr
Self
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3
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Alan Simpson
Self
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3
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Annette Kerr
Self
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3
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Josette Simon
Self - Narrator
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3
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Veronika Hyks
Self - Narrator (voice)
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3
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Denis Lawson
Self - Narrator (voice)
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3
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Muhammad Ali
Self (archive footage)
|
2
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Bertrand Russell
Self (archive footage)
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2
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Maggie Smith
Self
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2
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Miriam Margolyes
Self
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2
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Jennie Linden
Self
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2
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Gyles Brandreth
Self
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2
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Betty Marsden
Self
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2
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Derek Nimmo
Self
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2
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Peter Rogers
Self
|
2
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Sheridan Morley
Self
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2
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Barry Took
Self
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2
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Bamber Gascoigne
Self
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2
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Russell Davies
Self
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2
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Duke of Windsor
Self (archive footage)
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2
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Tippi Hedren
Self - Actress
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2
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François Truffaut
Self (archive footage)
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2
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Ernest Lehman
Self - Screenwriter, North By Northwest
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2
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Jay Presson Allen
Self - Screenwriter
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2
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Samuel A. Taylor
Self - Screenwriter and Friend / Self - Screenwriter, Vertigo (as Samuel Taylor)
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2
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John Russell Taylor
Self - Biographer
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2
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Alexander Walker
Self - Film Critic
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2
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David Thomson
Self - Selznick Biographer / Self - Film Historian
|
2
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Ned Sherrin
Self
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2
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Andrew Sachs
Self - Narrator (voice)
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2
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Adolf Hitler
Self - Führer of Germany (archive footage)
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2
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Hugh Trevor-Roper
Self - Author, The Last Days of Hitler
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2
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Bill Pertwee
Self
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2
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Simon Wiesenthal
Self
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2
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Aristotle Onassis
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Stephen Ambrose
Self - Author, Eisenhower: Soldier and President (as Stephen E. Ambrose)
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1
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Bernard L. Montgomery
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Lavrenti Beria
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Albert Schweitzer
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Nigel Hamilton
Self - Author, Monty: The Battles of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery
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1
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Alun Chalfont
Self - Author, Montgomery of Alamein (as Lord Chalfont)
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1
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Norman Gelb
Self - Author, Ike & Monty: Generals at War
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1
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Maud Farrar
Self (archive footage) (as Lady Montgomery)
|
1
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Pablo Escobar
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Len Deighton
Self
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1
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Lew Grade
Self
|
1
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Coco Chanel
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Pope John XXIII
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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A.J.P. Taylor
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Alan Clark
Self
|
1
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Kenneth Baker
Self
|
1
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Robert Kee
Self
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1
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Asa Briggs
Self
|
1
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David Attenborough
Self
|
1
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Hugh Hefner
Self (as Hugh M. Hefner)
|
1
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Gore Vidal
Self
|
1
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David Frost
Self
|
1
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Heinrich Himmler
Self - Reichsführer of the SS (archive footage)
|
1
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William S. Burroughs
Self
|
1
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Jimmy Carter
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Self (archive footage) (as Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)
|
1
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Charles de Gaulle
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Princess Soraya
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Farah Pahlavi
Self
|
1
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Ayatollah Khomeini
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Richard Helms
Self
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1
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Joy Adamson
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Sam Giancana
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Alfred Kinsey
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Robert Boothby
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Harold Macmillan
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Ervand Abrahamian
Self
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1
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Prince Reza Pahlavi
Self
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1
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Fritz Todt
Self - Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions (archive footage)
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1
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Mohammed Mossadegh
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Richard Leakey
Self
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1
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Gary Sick
Self
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1
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Abolhassan Bani Sadr
Self
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1
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1
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Elspeth Huxley
Self
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1
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Fereydoun Hoveyda
Self
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1
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Abbas
Self
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1
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Dorothy Cavendish
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Ebrahim Yazdi
Self
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1
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Abbas Milani
Self
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1
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Anthony Parsons
Self (as Sir Anthony Parsons)
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1
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Barry Rosen
Self
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1
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Ardeshir Zahedi
Self
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1
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Yousef Saanei
Self
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1
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Abbas Abdi
Self
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1
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Andrew Whitley
Self
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1
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Roselyn Carter
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Shaul Bakhash
Self
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1
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Daniel Brumberg
Self
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1
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Hossein Ala
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Houshang Ansary
Self
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1
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Hashem Sabaghian
Self
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1
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Parviz Mina
Self
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1
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1
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1
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Asadollah Badamchian
Self
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1
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Ali Ansari
Self
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1
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Abdolmajid Majidi
Self
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1
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Daryoush Homayoun
Self
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1
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Parviz C. Radji
Self
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1
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Marvin Zonis
Self
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1
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Seyed Hamid Rohani
Self
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1
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Hamid Algar
Self
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1
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Hadi Ghaffari
Self
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1
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Amir Taheri
Self
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1
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Hossein Fatemi
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Al Pacino
Self
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1
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John Wayne
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Sally Field
Self
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1
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Harvey Keitel
Self
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1
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Martin Landau
Self
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1
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Lee Strasberg
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Frederick Forsyth
Self
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1
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Martin Luther King
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Edmund Hillary
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Benjamin Spock
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Kurt Waldheim
Self
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1
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Isser Harel
Self
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1
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Hella Pick
Self
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1
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Julian Fellowes
Self
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1
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Joss Ackland
Self
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1
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Ken Loach
Self
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1
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Maria Callas
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Tony Hancock
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Nicholas Parsons
Self
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1
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Billie Jean King
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Yuri Gagarin
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Joachim von Ribbentrop
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Kenneth Horne
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Bill Cotton
Self
|
1
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Lord Kitchener
Self (archive footage)
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1
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David Hatch
Self
|
1
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Janet Leigh
Self / Self - Marion Crane
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1
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Patricia Hitchcock
Self - Daughter (as Pat Hitchcock)
|
1
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Peter Bogdanovich
Self - Director and Critic
|
1
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Norman Lloyd
Self - Actor and Executive Producer
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1
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Hume Cronyn
Self - Actor and Friend
|
1
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Georgine Darcy
Self - 'Miss Torso', Rear Window (as Georgine Darcey)
|
1
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Farley Granger
Self - Actor, Rope
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1
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Claude Chabrol
Self - Director and Critic
|
1
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Joseph Stefano
Self - Screenwriter, Psycho (as Joe Stefano)
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1
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Roy Ward Baker
Self - Assistant Director, The Lady Vanishes
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1
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Evan Hunter
Self - Screenwriter, The Birds
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1
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Ronald Neame
Self - Assistant Cameraman, Blackmail
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1
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Arthur Laurents
Self - Screenwriter
|
1
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Linden Travers
Self - Actress, The Lady Vanishes
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1
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Sugar Ray Robinson
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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1
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King George VI
Self (archive footage)
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1
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King George V
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Hilton A. Green
Self - Assistant Director (as Hilton Green)
|
1
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Wernher von Braun
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Queen Mary
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Robert F. Boyle
Self - Art Director (as Robert Boyle)
|
1
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Manchester United F.C.
Themselves
|
1
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Mata Hari
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Herbert Coleman
Self - Assistant Director (as Herb Coleman)
|
1
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Dave Freeman
Self - Screenwriter, The Short Night (as David Freeman)
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1
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Sarah Bradford
Self
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1
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Marcella Rabwin
Self - David Selznick's Secretary
|
1
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Herb Steinberg
Self - Publicity Manager, Paramount
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1
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Drew Casper
Self - Film Lecturer
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1
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Arthur Schatz
Self - Stills Photographer, Kaleidoscope-Frenzy
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1
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Eamon de Valera
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Hugh Stewart
Self - Editor, The Man Who Knew Too Much
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1
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Robert Goold
Self
|
1
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Matt Busby
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Dan Auiler
Self - Film Historian
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1
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Robert Rhodes James
Self
|
1
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Sidney Gottlieb
Self - Film Historian
|
1
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Adam West
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Michael Jackson
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Burt Ward
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Elton John
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Jack Benny
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Freddie Mercury
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Janis Joplin
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Joe Louis
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Peggy King
Self - Singer (archive footage)
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1
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George Liberace
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Anthony Eden
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Frances Liberace
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Tracey MacLeod
Self - Narrator
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1
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Olga Korbut
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Sophie Ashen
Self - Readings
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1
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William Connor
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Elizabeth Taylor
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Richard Burton
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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John Lennon
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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King Charles III
Self (as Prince Charles)
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1
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Timothy Leary
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Jonathan Miller
Self
|
1
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1
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Sonny Liston
Self (archive footage)
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1
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John Betjeman
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Marek Buchwald
Self - Hare Krishna (archive footage)
|
1
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Florence Nightingale
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Lady Juliet Townsend
Self
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1
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Ben Johnson
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Rukmini Dasi
Self - Hare Krishna (archive footage)
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1
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John Drummond
Self
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1
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Mary Wilson
Self
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1
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Candida Lycett-Green
Self
|
1
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Lady Harrod
Self
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1
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Anne Lancaster
Self
|
1
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Natasha Little
Self - Narrator
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1
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Jonathan Ross
Self
|
1
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John Schlesinger
Self
|
1
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Eric Sykes
Self
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1
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Ian Carmichael
Self
|
1
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John Howard Davies
Self
|
1
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Griff Rhys Jones
Self
|
1
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Queen Elizabeth II
Self
|
1
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Lance Percival
Self
|
1
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Jeanne Mockford
Self
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1
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David Croft
Self
|
1
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Prince Philip
Self
|
1
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Uri Geller
Self
|
1
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Beryl Vertue
Self
|
1
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King Edward VII
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Paul Ansdell
Self - Prince Albert
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1
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Paul Smith
Self
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1
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Kerry Gardner
Self
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1
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Trevor McCallum
Self
|
1
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Graham McCann
Self
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1
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Bill Lyon-Shaw
Self
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1
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Tom Dwyer
Self - Army Colleague
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1
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Billy J. Mitchell
Self - Ike
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1
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Pope Pius XII
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Peter Capaldi
Self - Narrator (voice)
|
1
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Sara Kestelman
Self - Narrator (voice)
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1
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Christopher Olgiati
Self - Narrator
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1
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Liberace
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Bill Paterson
Self - Narrator (voice)
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1
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Frankie Howerd
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Jim Norton
Self - Monty
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1
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Albert Speer
Self - Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production (archive footage)
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1
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Jimi Hendrix
Self - Subject (archive footage)
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1
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Jim Forster
Self - Reconstruction Cast
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1
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Brigette Barr
Self
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1
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Phil Nice
Self - Reader (voice)
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1
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Stephen Lowe
Self
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1
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Luigi Maglione
Self (archive footage)
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1
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Self - Interrogated Speer in 1946 (as J.K. Galbraith)
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1
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Ronald Markham
Self - Reconstruction Cast
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1
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Pernell Alexander
Self
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1
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Ray Carillo
Self
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1
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Billie Holiday
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Peter Campbell
Self
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1
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Gitta Sereny
Self - Author, Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth
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1
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Matthew Smart
Self - Reconstruction Cast
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1
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Ann Bjørndal
Self
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1
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Robert Connor
Self
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1
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Donald Clarke
Self - author of 'Wishing On The Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday'
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1
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Norman Hewitt
Self
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1
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1
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Alan Bullock
Self - Author, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
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1
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Declan Smith
Self - Reconstruction Cast
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1
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Mark Boyle
Self
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1
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Joe Delaney
Self
|
1
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Nat Hentoff
Self - music critic
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1
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Ernest Skidmore
Self
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1
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Joachim Fest
Self - Author, The Face of the Third Reich
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1
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Alvina Bridges
Self
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1
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Norma Gerber
Self
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1
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Bobby Tucker
Self - pianist
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1
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Norman Littlechild
Self
|
1
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Rosa Lee Brooks
Self
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1
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Seymour Heller
Self
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1
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Maya Angelou
Self - writer
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1
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Martin Benson
Self
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1
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Wolfgang Schäche
Self - Architectural Historian (as Wolfgang Schaeche)
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1
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Eric Burdon
Self
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1
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Jamie James
Self
|
1
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George Avakian
Self - record producer
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1
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Pamela Cundell
Self
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1
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Dan van der Vat
Self - Naval Historian
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1
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Kathy Etchingham
Self
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1
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Ina Liberace
Self
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1
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Ray Mungo
Self
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1
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Dan Morgenstern
Self - jazz historian
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1
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David Gatehouse
Self
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1
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Richard Overy
Self - Author, Why the Allies Won
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1
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Freddie Mae Gautier
Self
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1
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Gladys Luckie
Self
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1
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Annie Ross
Self - singer
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1
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Richard Gatehouse
Self
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1
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Ted Misiewicz
Self - Labour Camp Survivor
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1
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Terry Johnson
Self
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1
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Bob Monkhouse
Self
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1
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Yolande Bavan
Self - Billie Holiday's friend
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1
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Jimmy Perry
Self
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1
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Manfred von Poser
Self - Speer's Adjutant, 1944-1945
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1
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Linda Keith
Self
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1
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Lester Young
Self (archive footage)
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1
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William Roache
Self
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1
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Otto Kranzbühler
Self - Nuremberg Defence Lawyer (as Otto Kranzbuehler)
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1
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Melinda Merryweather
Self (as Melinda Meriwether)
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1
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Scott Thorson
Self
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1
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Artie Shaw
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Betty Driver
Self
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1
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Dorothee Casalis
Self - George Casalis's Widow
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1
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Kirsten Nefer
Self
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1
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David Margolick
Self - writer
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1
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Wolf Jobst Siedler
Self - Speer's Publisher (as Wolf-Jobst Siedler)
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1
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Margaret Redding
Self
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1
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David Benson
Self - Readings (voice)
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1
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Alice Walker
Self - writer
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1
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John Newman
Self
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1
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Bertrand de Luze
Self - Spandau Chaplain 1965-1972
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1
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Noel Redding
Self
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1
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William Dufty
Self - Billie Holiday's friend
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1
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Roger Richardson
Self
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1
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Erich Goldhagen
Self - Harvard University
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1
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Rosko
Self (as Emperor Rosko)
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1
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Stanley Crouch
Self - music critic
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1
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Susanne Willems
Self - University of Bochum (as Suzanne Willems)
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1
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Martin Seifert
Self
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1
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John Levy
Self - bass player
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1
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Christopher Stamp
Self (as Chris Stamp)
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1
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Billy Taylor
Self - pianist
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1
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Gerry Stickells
Self
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1
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Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Juma Sultan
Self
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1
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Bevan Dufty
Self - Billie Holiday's godson
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1
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Tommy Weber
Self
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1
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Ray Ellis
Self - arranger
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1
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Chuck Wein
Self
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1
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Herbert Worthington
Self
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1
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Themselves (archive footage)
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1
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The Beatles
Themselves (archive footage)
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1
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Tony Blackburn
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Buddy & Stacy
Themselves (archive footage)
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1
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Dick Cavett
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Billy Cox
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Michael de Freitas
Self (archive footage) (as Michael X)
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1
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Maurice Gibb
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Johnny Hallyday
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Jack Hutton
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Lulu
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Mitch Mitchell
Self (archive footage)
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1
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Robert Moseley
Self (archive footage)
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1
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The Rolling Stones
Themselves (archive footage)
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1
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Alfred Hitchcock
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2
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Alma Reville
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2
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Ingrid Bergman
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1
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Anny Ondra
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1
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Lew Wasserman
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1
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Helen Scott
Self - Translator (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1
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Jeff Perrin
Self - Hearse Driver (uncredited)
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1
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Sripati Das
Self - Hare Krishna (uncredited)
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1
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Dayal Nitai Das
Self - Hare Krishna (uncredited)
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1
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Raktak Das
Self - Hare Krishna (uncredited)
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1
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Arthur Lowe
Self / Self - Capt. George Mainwaring / Self - Leonard Swindley / Self - Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1
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