Director
Ken Russell
DIRECTOR
John Schlesinger
Melvyn Bragg
Nancy Thomas
Michael Gill
Peter Zadek
David Hugh Jones
Peter Newington
Patrick Garland
Jonathan Miller
Stars (in credits order)
Huw Wheldon
Self - Presenter
John Berger
Robert Robinson
Self - Interviewer
John Betjeman
Self
Annette Robertson
Alfred Jarry
Peter Brett
Bluebeard
Pauline Boty
Prostitute
Izabella Telezynska
Josephine
Oliver Reed
Claude Debussy
Boris Ranevsky
Béla Bartók
James Lloyd
Henri Rousseau
Susan Sontag
Peggy Ashcroft
Bert Haanstra
Orson Welles
Spike Milligan
Robert Colquhoun
David Hurn
Philip Larkin
Self - Poet
Duke Ellington
Self - 'Duke Ellington'
Humphrey Lyttelton
Self - Presenter, 'Duke Ellington'
Robert MacBryde
Douglas Cooper
Self - Presenter, 'Picasso'
John Douglas Pringle
Self - Narrator, 'Man In A Landscape...'
Michael Caine
Peter Blake
Clive Barnes
Self - Presenter, 'Rudolf Nureyev'
Alfred Hitchcock
Self - Interviewee
Vladek Sheybal
Film Director
Alberto Giacometti
Self - 'Why So Thin'
John Dankworth
Allan McClelland
Commentator
Sidney Nolan
Self - 'Man In A Landscape...'
Rudolf Nureyev
Self - 'Rudolf Nureyev'
Rowena Gregory
Mrs. Elgar
Derek Boshier
Sandor Elès
Client
Bryan Pringle
Pere Ubu
George Melly
Self - Presenter 'The Middle-Class Magician'
Pablo Picasso
Self - Subject, 'Picasso'
George McGrath
Sir Edward Elgar
Peter Phillips
René Magritte
Self - 'The Middle-Class Magician'
Jacqui Cook
Mere Ubu
The Johnny Dankworth Orchestra
Themselves - 'Duke Ellington'
Friso ten Holt
Self - 'Friso ten Holt'
Rosalind Watkins
Judith
Roland MacLeod
Apollinaire
Georgette Magritte
Penny Service
Lily
John Lehmann
Self - Presenter, 'Aldous Huxley'
Vernon Dobtcheff
The Actor
Aldous Huxley
Self - 'Aldous Huxley'
Andy Warhol
Self - 'Cheese...Andy Warhol's Studio'
Dorothy-Rose Gribble
Eugénie
Stephanie Randall
Secretary
Gerard Malanga
Jane Lumb
Saint Sebastian
Sheila Van Bloemen
1st Neighbour
Cilli Wang
Self - 'Cilli Wang'
Ann Mitchell
2nd Neighbour
Yvonne Antrobus
Stage Lily
Verity Edmett
Zohra, the slave girl
Joanna Rigby
Daughter
Janet Fairhead
Chouchou at 13
Michael Van Bloemen
Picture Dealer
Alison Fiske
Maeterlinck's girlfriend
Kenneth Goodare
Musician
Ian Flintoff
Stage Debussy
Paul Cameron
Elna Pearl
Vasnier daughter
Peter Matheson
Yvette Rees
Stage Madame Bardac
Jane Anderson
Audrey Searle
Madame Vasnier
Keith Smith
Reporter
Fred Taylor
Monsieur Vasnier
Emlyn Williams
ACTOR
Aaron Copland
P.G. Wodehouse
Kingsley Amis
Mogens Wieth
Robert Ardrey
Simon Raven
Bernard Buffet
Paddy Chayefsky
Paul Robeson
Bernard Miles
Leonard Bernstein
Jerome Robbins
Interviewee
Georges Simenon
Fritz Kortner
Christopher Isherwood
William Golding
Jacques Deval
Robert Graves
T.H. White
Frank Duncan
Narrator
Joan Littlewood
Yehudi Menuhin
Tyrone Guthrie
Humphrey Burton
Davy Graham
Gerry Raffles
Gordon Jacob
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris
Wanda Landowska
Davina Dundas
Singer guitarist
Arvo Boys
Alfred Wallis
Jacques Lipchitz
Len Williams
Instructor
Mr. Skinner
Evelyn Wilding
Cleaner
Thomas Beecham
John Wiliams
Concert guitarist
Teresa Power
Spectator
Thurston Dart
Laurie Griffiths
Boy learning guitar
Rod Steiger
Harold Pinter
John Mortimer
Shelagh Delaney
Henry Moore
W.H. Auden
Mary McCarthy
Marie Rambert
Rudolf Bing
George Lamming
John Cranko
Edgar Mittelholzer
Ian Bannen
Hamlet
Lotte Lenya
Katina Paxinou
Harold Lang
Self - Acting Teacher
Peter Wood
Self = Interviewee
Joyce Rathbone
Music Teacher
Miss Varnavides
Young Prokofiev
Philip Jenkins
Hands playing piano
V.P. Gregoriy
Zhdanov
Annette Michelson
Reading Russian score
Michael Shaw
Walk on
James Forty
James Earl Jones
Prince of Morocco
George C. Scott
Shylock
Joseph Papp
Peter O'Toole
Michael Hordern
Preacher (The Sermon)
Kenneth Williams
Gillian Lynne
Alita Naughton
Model
Ernest Milton
Lukas Foss
Hans Keller
Robert Jacobsen
Tortelier
Ben Shahn
Frank McEwen
Barry Humphries
Evelyn Waugh
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Robert Rauschenberg
Margaret Dale
Joe Tilson
Anthony Storr
Norman Mailer
Malcolm Muggeridge
Don McCullin
John Barbirolli
Naum Gabo
Evelyn Rothwell
Barry Evans
Studentuncredited
Bit partuncredited
Janet Lynn
Carmen Dene
Girluncredited
Delia Wicks
Maurice Bush
Thuguncredited
Lance George
Extrauncredited
David Williscroft
Fran Browne
Victoria Russell
Chouchouuncredited
Peter Munt
Horse-handleruncredited
David Brewster
Extra at funeraluncredited
Frank Sussman
Kathy Fitzgibbon