Omnibus poster

TV series · 1967

Omnibus

First aired 13 October 1967 TMDB ↗

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 remembered 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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Groucho Marx
as Self
77
Abel Gance
as Self
77
Stan Laurel
as Self
Died aged 74, before release
Fred Astaire
68
Louis Armstrong
as Self
66
Louis Armstrong
66
Ralph Richardson
as Self
64
Ralph Richardson
as Self / Johnson
64
Beatrix Lehmann
as Narrator(voice)
64
Lillian Bronson
as Cissie Chandler
64
Raymond Huntley
as Self
63
John Gielgud
as Self
63
Celia Johnson
as Ellen Edgeworth
58
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
as Self - Narrator
57
Maurice Denham
as Dou
57
Michael Hordern
as Self
56
Michael Hordern
as Self - Narrator (voice)
56
Michael Hordern
as Professor Parkins
56
Gene Kelly
as Self
55
Kenneth More
as Self
53
Alec Guinness
as Self
53
Orson Welles
as Self - Presenter
52
Anthony Sharp
as Gentleman
52
Paul Rogers
as Self
50
Kenneth Griffith
as Self - Presenter
46
Peter Ustinov
as Self
46
Roy Dotrice
as Astronaut
44
Donald Sinden
as Self
44
Marcel Marceau
as Self
44
Marcel Marceau
44
Vladek Sheybal
as Joseph Goebbels
44
Angela Lansbury
41
Sammy Davis Jr.
41
David Attenborough
as Self
41
Sidney Poitier
40
David de Keyser
as Self - Narrator
40
Ken Russell
as Self
40
Charles Gray
as Narrator
39
Andy Warhol
as Self
39
Joan Plowright
37
Christopher Plummer
as Narrator
37
Sean Connery
as Self
37
Peter Woodthorpe
as Cipolla, the 'magician'
36
Claire Bloom
as Self
36
Roy Castle
as Narrator
35
Shintarō Katsu
as Self
35
Victor Spinetti
as Self
34
Barry Humphries
as Sir Les Patterson
33
Barry Humphries
as Self
33
Judi Dench
as Self - Reading Poetry
32
Dudley Moore
as Self
32
Dudley Moore
32
James Bolam
as Pinkie
32
Tommy Steele
as Self
30
Vanessa Redgrave
as Self
30
Kenneth Colley
as Hitler
29
Eleanor Bron
as Self
29
Paul Verhoeven
as Self
29
David Frost
as Self
28
Sue Lloyd
as Linda Loring
28
George Lazenby
as Self (archive footage)
28
Ringo Starr
as Self
27
John Lennon
as Self
27
Billy Fury
as Self (archive footage)
27
John Cleese
as Self
27
Michael Gambon
as Self
26
Michael Gambon
26
Miriam Margolyes
26
Jeremy Clyde
as Schalcken
26
Harrison Ford
as Self
25
Paul McCartney
as Self
25
John Shrapnel
as Zborowski
25
Terry Jones
25
George Harrison
as Self
24
Mike Leigh
as Self
24
Pete Townshend
as Self
22
Steve Martin
22
Anthony Daniels
as Self
21
Andrew Lloyd Webber
19
Julian Fellowes
18
Robert Lindsay
17
Simon Jones
17
Mark Hamill
as Self
16
Liam Neeson
15
Douglas Adams
as Self
15
Douglas Adams
15
Harish Patel
as Self
14
Griff Rhys Jones
13
Stephen Fry
10
Richard E. Grant
as Narrator (voice)
10
Richard E. Grant
10
Jennifer Saunders
9
Frances Barber
9
Charlie Higson
as Self
9
Kenneth Branagh
6
Elizabeth McGovern
as Self
6
Russell Crowe
3
Sanjeev Bhaskar
3
Natalie Portman
Unknown
Matt Lucas
as Self
Unknown
Emma Bunton
as Self
Unknown
Justine Waddell
Unknown
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