Director
Tim Kirby
DIRECTOR
Denys Blakeway
Liz Hartford
Clare Beavan
David F. Turnbull
Helen Bettinson
William Cran
Martin Smith
Jonathan Lewis
Martin Davidson
Ella Bahaire
Saskia Baron
Janet Lee
Christopher Olgiati
Christopher Morris
Hamish Mykura
David Belton
Paul Tilzey
John Fothergill
Kate Townsend
Stars (in credits order)
Denis Lawson
Narrator
Jancis Robinson
Self - Narrator
Josette Simon
Leslie Phillips
Self
Sheila Hancock
Maureen Lipman
Fenella Fielding
Andrew Ray
Peter Shaffer
John Lahr
Annette Kerr
Alan Simpson
Veronika Hyks
Andrew Sachs
Bill Pertwee
Miriam Margolyes
Jennie Linden
Michael Parkinson
Gyles Brandreth
Peter Rogers
Sheridan Morley
Bamber Gascoigne
Barry Took
Hugh Paddick
Russell Davies
Tippi Hedren
Ernest Lehman
Self - Screenwriter, North By Northwest
Jay Presson Allen
Self - Screenwriter
Samuel A. Taylor
Self - Screenwriter and Friend
David Thomson
Self - Film Historian
John Russell Taylor
Self - Biographer
Alexander Walker
Self - Film Critic
Ned Sherrin
Billy J. Mitchell
Ike
Peter Capaldi
Sara Kestelman
Bill Paterson
Jim Norton
Monty
Jim Forster
Reconstruction Cast
Brigette Barr
Phil Nice
Reader
Stephen Lowe
Ronald Markham
Pernell Alexander
Ray Carillo
Peter Campbell
Matthew Smart
Ann Bjørndal
Robert Connor
Donald Clarke
Self - author of 'Wishing On The Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday'
Norman Hewitt
Declan Smith
Mark Boyle
Joe Delaney
Nat Hentoff
Self - music critic
Ernest Skidmore
Alvina Bridges
Norma Gerber
Bobby Tucker
Self - pianist
Norman Littlechild
Rosa Lee Brooks
Seymour Heller
Maya Angelou
Self - writer
Martin Benson
Eric Burdon
Jamie James
George Avakian
Self - record producer
Pamela Cundell
Kathy Etchingham
Ina Liberace
Ray Mungo
Dan Morgenstern
Self - jazz historian
David Gatehouse
Freddie Mae Gautier
Gladys Luckie
Annie Ross
Self - singer
Richard Gatehouse
Terry Johnson
Bob Monkhouse
Yolande Bavan
Self - Billie Holiday's friend
Jimmy Perry
Linda Keith
William Roache
Melinda Merryweather
Scott Thorson
Betty Driver
Kirsten Nefer
David Margolick
Margaret Redding
David Benson
Readings
Alice Walker
John Newman
Noel Redding
William Dufty
Roger Richardson
Rosko
Stanley Crouch
Martin Seifert
John Levy
Self - bass player
Christopher Stamp
Billy Taylor
Gerry Stickells
Juma Sultan
Bevan Dufty
Self - Billie Holiday's godson
Tommy Weber
Ray Ellis
Self - arranger
Chuck Wein
Herbert Worthington
Stephen Ambrose
Self - Author, Eisenhower: Soldier and President
Nigel Hamilton
Self - Author, Monty: The Battles of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery
Alun Chalfont
Self - Author, Montgomery of Alamein
Norman Gelb
Self - Author, Ike & Monty: Generals at War
David Attenborough
Hugh Hefner
Gore Vidal
William S. Burroughs
David Frost
Richard Overy
Self - Author, Why the Allies Won
Farah Pahlavi
Prince Reza Pahlavi
Joachim Fest
Self - Author, The Face of the Third Reich
Simon Wiesenthal
John Kenneth Galbraith
Self - Interrogated Speer in 1946
Richard Helms
Richard Leakey
Elspeth Huxley
Erich Goldhagen
Self - Harvard University
Wolf Jobst Siedler
Self - Speer's Publisher
Hedayat Matin Daftari
Shaul Bakhash
Abbas Abdi
Parviz Mina
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Self - Author, The Last Days of Hitler
Hamid Algar
Ali Ansari
Abbas Ali Amid Zanjani
Houshang Ansary
Ted Misiewicz
Self - Labour Camp Survivor
Ebrahim Yazdi
Hashem Sabaghian
Anthony Parsons
Otto Kranzbühler
Self - Nuremberg Defence Lawyer
Fereydoun Hoveyda
Aliakbar Mohtashamipour
Susanne Willems
Self - University of Bochum
Yousef Saanei
Gary Sick
Alan Bullock
Self - Author, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
Abbas
Seyed Hamid Rohani
Wolfgang Schäche
Self - Architectural Historian
Barry Rosen
Parviz C. Radji
Abdolmajid Majidi
Marvin Zonis
Dorothee Casalis
Self - George Casalis's Widow
Ervand Abrahamian
Abbas Milani
Amir Taheri
Abolhassan Bani Sadr
Manfred von Poser
Self - Speer's Adjutant, 1944-1945
Hadi Ghaffari
Daniel Brumberg
Gitta Sereny
Self - Author, Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth
Andrew Whitley
Bertrand de Luze
Self - Spandau Chaplain 1965-1972
Asadollah Badamchian
Ardeshir Zahedi
Daryoush Homayoun
Al Pacino
Sally Field
Harvey Keitel
Martin Landau
Frederick Forsyth
Kurt Waldheim
Isser Harel
Hella Pick
Maggie Smith
Joss Ackland
Ken Loach
Julian Fellowes
Nicholas Parsons
Betty Marsden
Derek Nimmo
David Hatch
Bill Cotton
Janet Leigh
Marion Crane
Peter Bogdanovich
Self - Director and Critic
Farley Granger
Self - Actor, Rope
Patricia Hitchcock
Self - Daughter
Hume Cronyn
Self - Actor and Friend
Norman Lloyd
Self - Actor and Executive Producer
Claude Chabrol
Georgine Darcy
Self - 'Miss Torso', Rear Window
Roy Ward Baker
Self - Assistant Director, The Lady Vanishes
Ronald Neame
Self - Assistant Cameraman, Blackmail
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Linden Travers
Self - Actress, The Lady Vanishes
Joseph Stefano
Self - Screenwriter, Psycho
Arthur Laurents
Evan Hunter
Self - Screenwriter, The Birds
Hilton A. Green
Self - Assistant Director
Robert F. Boyle
Self - Art Director
Herbert Coleman
Sarah Bradford
Dave Freeman
Self - Screenwriter, The Short Night
Drew Casper
Self - Film Lecturer
Sidney Gottlieb
Hugh Stewart
Self - Editor, The Man Who Knew Too Much
Herb Steinberg
Self - Publicity Manager, Paramount
Robert Rhodes James
Marcella Rabwin
Self - David Selznick's Secretary
Arthur Schatz
Self - Stills Photographer, Kaleidoscope-Frenzy
Dan Auiler
Robert Goold
Tracey MacLeod
Sophie Ashen
Jonathan Miller
Natasha Little
Eric Sykes
Queen Elizabeth II
John Schlesinger
Ian Carmichael
Griff Rhys Jones
John Howard Davies
Jonathan Ross
Prince Philip
Lance Percival
David Croft
Jeanne Mockford
Uri Geller
Beryl Vertue
Paul Smith
Paul Ansdell
Prince Albert
Kerry Gardner
Graham McCann
Bill Lyon-Shaw
Trevor McCallum
Tom Dwyer
Self - Army Colleague
Jeff Perrin
Hearse Driveruncredited
Raktak Das
Hare Krishnauncredited
Dayal Nitai Das
Sripati Das