The Brains Trust (1955) | Full Cast

John Furness

DIRECTOR

Norman Fisher

Self - Question-Master

Jacob Bronowski

Self - Panellist

Alan Bullock

Self - Panellist

Julian Huxley

Self - Panellist

A.J. Ayer

Self - Panellist

Alan Melville

Self - Question-Master

Marghanita Laski

Self - Panellist

Violet Bonham Carter

Self - Panellist

Eric James

Self - Panellist

James Fisher

Self - Panellist

Ifor Evans

Self - Panellist

John Wolfenden

Self - Panellist

Barbara Wootton

Self - Panellist

Bernard Braden

Self - Question-Master

Michael Flanders

Self - Question-Master

Margaret Lane

Self - Panellist

Noel Annan

Self - Panellist

David Cecil

Self - Panellist

John Maud

Self - Panellist

Hugh Ross Williamson

Self - Question-Master

W. Grey Walter

Self - Panellist

Gwyn Thomas

Self - Panellist

Ruth Pitter

Self - Panellist

Bernard Williams

Self - Panellist

Pamela Hansford Johnson

Self - Panellist

John Betjeman

Self - Panellist

David Daiches

Self - Panellist

Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Thailand

Self - Panellist

Alexander Kennedy

Self - Panellist

Margery Fry

Self - Panellist

Peter Brook

Self - Panellist

Malcolm Muggeridge

Self - Question-Master

Alan Gemmell

Self - Panellist

Oliver Franks

Self - Panellist

Rebecca West

Self - Panellist

Edward Shackleton

Self - Panellist

George Paget Thomson

Self - Panellist

Robert Boothby

Self - Panellist

Michael Grant

Self - Panellist

Bertrand Russell

Self - Panellist

Hesketh Pearson

Self - Panellist

Hubert Gregg

Self - Question-Master

William Golding

Self - Panellist

Yehudi Menuhin

Self - Panellist

Miles Thomas

Self - Panellist

Peter Hall

Self - Panellist

Mary Ann Sieghart

Self - Question-Master

Robert Kee

Self - Question-Master

Jacquetta Hawkes

Self - Panellist

George Earl of Harewood

Self - Panellist

V.S. Pritchett

Self - Panellist

James Laver

Self - Panellist

John Wain

Self - Panellist

C.P. Snow

Self - Panellist

Reg Butler

Self - Panellist

Anthony Quinton

Self - Panellist

Glyn Daniel

Self - Panellist

Frederic Hooper

Self - Panellist

Salvador de Madariaga

Self - Panellist

Joost de Blank

Self - Panellist

Christopher Butler

Self - Panellist

Hugh Trevor-Roper

Self - Panellist

Richard Dawkins

Self - Panellist

Paul Helm

Self - Panellist

Roy Harrod

Self - Panellist

Peter Ustinov

Self - Panellist

Clough Williams-Ellis

Self - Panellist

Mary Stocks

Self - Panellist

Larry Adler

Self - Panellist

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Self - Panellist

Elspeth Huxley

Self - Panellist

Shirley Williams

Self - Panellist

Richard Harris

Self - Panellist

J.H. Plumb

Self - Panellist

Lady Longford

Self - Panellist

A.B. Campbell

Self - Panellist

John Nicholas

Self - Panellist

Compton MacKenzie

Self - Panellist

Megan Lloyd George

Self - Panellist

Lady Ravensdale

Self - Panellist

Sylvia Harrison

Self - Panellist

Nicholas Monsarrat

Self - Panellist

Cyril Connolly

Self - Panellist

Stephen Spender

Self - Panellist

John Wedgwood

Self - Panellist

Virginia Spencer Cowles

Self - Panellist

Oliver Lyttleton

Self - Panellist

Michel Saint-Denis

Self - Panellist

A.L. Goodhart

Self - Panellist

Max Beloff

Self - Panellist

Joseph McCulloch

Self - Panellist

Mark Bonham-Carter

Self - Panellist

Stephen Potter

Self - Panellist

Harold Nicolson

Self - Panellist

Stevie Smith

Self - Panellist

Mother Alexandra

Self - Panellist

Raymond Aron

Self - Panellist

Goronwy Rees

Self - Panellist

Katharine Elliot

Self - Panellist

Edith Sitwell

Self - Panellist

Charles Coulson

Self - Panellist

Denis Johnston

Self - Panellist

Patrick Blackett

Self - Panellist

Paul-Marc Henry

Self - Panellist

Cecil Day-Lewis

Self - Panellist

Norman Birkett

Self - Panellist

A.S. Byatt

Self - Panellist

Jonathan Miller

Self - Panellist

Ben Okri

Self - Panellist

Nancy Cartwright

Self - Panellist

Theodore Zeldin

Self - Panellist

Lewis Wolpert

Self - Panellist

Edward De Bono

Self - Panellist

Lisa Jardine

Self - Panellist

John Berger

Self - Panellist

Patrick Heron

Self - Panellist

Wendy Hiller

Self - Panellist

Robert Morley

Self - Panelist

Ian Hunter

Self - Panellist

Margaret Rawlings

Self - Panellist

Harry Rée

Self - Panellist

Gilbert Harding

Self - Panellist

Peter Medawar

Self - Panellist

Eugene Paul Bennett

Self - Panellist

Cecil Woodham-Smith

Self - Panellist

Geoffrey Gorer

Self - Panellist

Peter Masefield

Self - Panellist

D.W. Brogan

Self - Panellist

George Edwards

Self - Panellist

Hugh Casson

Self - Panellist

Flora Robson

Self - Panellist

Marius Goring

Self - Panellist

Joyce Grenfell

Self - Panellist

Peter Fleming

Self - Panellist

Claud Cockburn

Self - Panellist

W.H. Auden

Self - Panellist

Ewen Montagu

Self - Panellist

Arthur Calder-Marshall

Self - Panellist

William Douglas-Home

Self - Panellist

Bridget Boland

Self - Panellist

Monica Dickens

Self - Panellist

Isobel Barnett

Self - Panellist

Frank Birch

Self - Panellist

Enid Bagnold

Self - Panellist

Geoffrey Grigson

Self - Panellist

Mervyn Stockwood

Self - Panellist

Peter Quennell

Self - Panellist

Milton Shulman

Self - Panellist

Dwight Macdonald

Self - Panellist

Roger Bannister

Self - Panellist

Walter Elliot

Self - Panellist

Rosamond Lehmann

Self - Panellist

Donald Tyerman

Self - Panellist

Charles Gibbs-Smith

Self - Panellist

Esmond Wright

Self - Panellist

Solly Zuckerman

Self - Panellist

Lionel Hale

Self - Panellist

Tom Harrisson

Self - Panellist

Moran Caplat

Self - Panellist

Michael Ayrton

Self - Panellist

Diana Reader Harris

Self - Panellist

Alan Pryce-Jones

Self - Panellist

Basil Spence

Self - Panellist

Graham Hutton

Self - Panellist

Kate O'Brien

Self - Panellist

Paul Jennings

Self - Panellist

George Woodcock

Self - Panellist

James Robertson Justice

Self - Panellist

Margaret Mead

Self - Panellist

Dilys Powell

Self - Panellist

Jo Grimond

Self - Panellist

Pamela Frankau

Self - Panellist

John Summerson

Self - Panellist

Drew Middleton

Self - Panellist

Daniel Jones

Self - Panellist

Michael Ramsey

Self - Panellist

James Morris

Self - Panellist

William Holford

Self - Panellist

George Barnes

Self - Panellist

Hubert Phillips

Self - Panellist

Aldous Huxley

Self - Panellist

Ashley Montagu

Self - Panellist

Isaiah Berlin

Self - Panellist

Vera Brittain

Self - Panellist

Steuart Wilson

Self - Panellist

Olivier Todd

Self - Panellist

Malcolm Sargent

Self - Panellist

Arthur Bliss

Self - Panellist

Andrew Cavendish

Self - Panellist

Alan Ross

Self - Panellist

Jane Ironside

Self - Panellist

Ellis Waterhouse

Self - Panellist

Edward Twining

Self - Panellist

William Wedgwood Benn

Self - Panellist

Anthony Chenevix-Trench

Self - Panellist

Margery Fisher

Self - Panellist

Ralph Richardson

Self - Panellist

Sam Wanamaker

Self - Panellist

Moira Shearer

Self - Panellist

Tyrone Guthrie

Self - Panellist

Alec Peterson

Self - Panellist

Keith Kyle

Self - Panellist

Frank George

Self - Panellist

Asa Briggs

Self - Panellist

H.R.H. Prince Peter of Greece

Self - Panellist

Alec Kirkbride

Self - Panellist

Frederick Marquis

Self - Panellist

Elizabeth Irving

Self - Panellist

Lord Moran

Self - Panellist

Wolf Mankowitz

Self - Panellist

Doris Lessing

Self - Panellist

Arnold Wesker

Self - Panellist

John Mason Brown

Self - Panellist

T.E. Utley

Self - Panellist

Richard Hoggart

Self - Panellist

Colin Davis

Self - Panellist

Richard Titmuss

Self - Panellist

Eugene Rostow

Self - Panellist

Thomas Corbishley

Self - Panellist

Denis Brogan

Self - Panellist

Hephzibah Menuhin

Self - Panellist

Henry Kissinger

Self

Robert Bolt

Self - Panellist

John Whiting

Self - Panellist

Kenneth Kaunda

Self - Panellist

C.J. Hamson

Self - Panellist

Michael Swann

Self - Panellist

Gladwyn Jebb

Self - Panellist

Richard Neustadt

Self

Kenneth Younger

Self - Panellist

Stuart Hampshire

Self - Panellist

Donald MacKay

Self - Panellist

Barbara Ward

Self - Panellist