Omnibus (1967)
Omnibus (1967)
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Plot.
Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best ed documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.
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Cast & Crew.
Kirsty Wark
Self - Presenter
David Collings
Father
Stephen Fry
Self
Peter Sallis
Guest
Terry Gilliam
Self
David Puttnam
Self
Philip Bonham-Carter
Director of Photography
Neville Kidd
Camera Operator
David M. Thompson
Director
Teresa Griffiths
Director
James Erskine
Director
Jacques Peretti
Director
Jeff Perks
Director
Jonathan Miller
Director / Writer
Dave King
Editor
M.R. James
Story
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
Roger Waters
Self
Frank Zappa
Self
Erika Bergmann
Fallen Woman
John Bird
Self
Eleanor Bron
Self
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Self
John Cleese
Self
Ian Hislop
Self
John Gielgud
Self
Vanessa Redgrave
Self
Donald Sinden
Self
Dennis Waterman
Self
Alec Guinness
Self
Laurence Olivier
Self (archive footage)
Paul Rogers
Self
Ralph Richardson
Self / Self / Johnson
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
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self - Narrator
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
Michael Gambon
Self
Sheila Hancock
Self
Anna Massey
Self
Victor Spinetti
Self
Judi Dench
Self - Reading Poetry
Roy Dotrice
Astronaut
Ian McKellen
Self - Reading Poetry
Ginger Baker
Self
Tommy Steele
Self
Joseph Conrad
Self
Dmitri Chostakovitch
Self
Oscar Peterson
Self
André Previn
Self
Stan Laurel
Self
Michael Hordern
Professor Parkins / Self / Self - Narrator (voice)
Oliver Hardy
Self
David Bowie
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
Sergei Diaghilev
Self
Edith Evans
Self
Ambrose Coghill
Colonel
George Woodbridge
Hotel Proprietor
Nora Gordon
Proprietress
Freda Dowie
Maid
Benvenuto Cellini
Self
Abel Gance
Self
Ken Russell
Self
Frederick Delius
Self
Eric Fenby
Self
J. B. Priestley
Self
Eric Clapton
Self
Jack Bruce
Self
Lawrence Durrell
Self
Margot Fonteyn
Self
Adrian Boult
Self
George Robey
Self
Malcolm Sargent
Self
Christopher Isherwood
Self
Noël Coward
Self
Ian Fleming
Self
Virginia Woolf
Self
Anna Pavlova
Self
Richard Strauss
Self
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Self
Edward Heath
Self
Louis Armstrong
Self
Peter Ustinov
Self
Humphrey Jennings
Self
Robert Shaw
Self
George Orwell
Self
Eric Morecambe
Self / Narrator
Brendan Behan
Self
Ernie Wise
Self / Narrator
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Self
Marcel Proust
Self
Richard Tauber
Self
Giacomo Puccini
Self
Ingrid Bergman
Self
James Mossman
Self
Jack Shepherd
Self / Gaughin
Glenda Jackson
Self
David Lean
Self
Stan Barstow
Self
Humphrey Bogart
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
Judy Garland
Self
Marcel Marceau
Self
Andy Warhol
Self
Robert Helpmann
Self
François Truffaut
Self
Claire Bloom
Self
Ella Fitzgerald
Self
Joe
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
Jane Austen
Self
Germaine Greer
Self
Edward Fox
Self
Busby Berkeley
Self
György Ligeti
Self
Charles Marowitz
Self
Plácido Domingo
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
Barry Norman
Self / Self - Presenter
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
Richard E. Grant
Narrator (voice)
Syd Barrett
Self (archive footage)
Brett Anderson
Self
David Gilmour
Self
Barry Humphries
Sir Les Patterson / Self
Nick Mason
Self
Storm Thorgerson
Self
Joe Boyd
Self
Douglas Adams
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)
David A. Stewart
Self
Brian Wilson
Self
Isabel Allende
Self
Robert Harris
Self
Gore Vidal
Self
Alan Bennett
Self
Dudley Moore
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)
András Schiff
Self
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)
George Lucas
Self
Rick McCallum
Self
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
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
Media.
Details.
Release Date
October 13, 1967
Status
Canceled
Seasons
36
Episodes
717
Running Time
1h
Genres
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Wiki.
Omnibus is a British documentary series broadcast mainly on BBC One. The programme was the successor to the arts-based series Monitor. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards.
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