Omnibus (1952)
Omnibus (1952)
Network & Production Companies

Plot.
Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.

Alistair Cooke
Self - Host

Robert Saudek
Creator / Producer

Joseph N. Welch
Self - Narrator

Martin Gabel
Narrator

Burgess Meredith
(segment "The Sea of Winslow Homer")

Agnes de Mille
Choreographer

Norman Lloyd
Director

Delbert Mann
Director

Sidney Lumet
Director

Richard Leacock
Director

Paul Bogart
Director

David Greene
Director

Daniel Petrie
Director

Ralph Levy
Director

Robert Ellis Miller
Director

Tad Danielewski
Director

Charles S. Dubin
Director

Bob Banner
Director

Sidney Carroll
Screenplay

Gene Reynolds
Archie Goodwin

Charlton Heston
Self - Presenter

Alan Badel
Fool

Lynn Loring
Eva

Herb Voland
M. Dupin

James Dean
Bronco Evans

Jeff Donnell
Helen

Beatrice Straight
Goneril

Nita Talbot
Letitia

Conrad Janis
Self

Lloyd Bochner
First Gentleman

Bramwell Fletcher
Earl of Kent

Jonathan Harris
Matey / Courcelles

William Shatner
Palace Messenger

Joanne Woodward
Ann Rutledge

Orson Welles
King Lear

Tammy Grimes
Mary Jane Jenkins

Gene Kelly
Self (segment) / Choreographer

Jessica Tandy
Self - Reader / Louisa Catherine Johnson / Jackie

Helen Hayes
Bessie Arlington / Mrs. Howard V. Larue III / Mrs. Dearth

Natasha Parry
Cordelia

Arnold Moss
Duke of Albany

Wesley Addy
King of France

Orson Bean
Narrator

Ludi Claire
segment 'The Fine Art of Murder'

Robert Eckles
Nero Wolfe

Dennis Hoey
Arthur Conan Doyle

Rex Stout
Self

Micheál Mac Liammóir
Poor Tom

Eartha Kitt
Self - Singer (segment 'Eartha Kitt')

Fritz Weaver
Newspaper Photographer

Neva Patterson
Mrs. Lansdowne / Mrs. Coade

Ruth Draper
Self - Monologist (segment 'The Children's Party')

Audrey Christie
Miss Kingsley

Jack Benny
Athanael

Lester Matthews
The Chief

Byron Foulger
Horatio

Harry Shearer
Johnny

Beverly Washburn
Angela

Ann Doran
Angela's Mother

Victor Jory
Captain Kidd

Christopher Plummer
Oedipus / Thomas Mendip

James Daly
Narrator / General Robert E. Lee / St. Clare / Colonel Billy Mitchell

Shepperd Strudwick
Charles Francis Adams

Lilli Palmer
Anne Boleyn

Richard Kiley
Actor / The Prosecuting Attorney

Eva Marie Saint
Actress

Philip Abbott
Thomas Jefferton

Katharine Bard
Lizzie Borden

E.G. Marshall
Actor

Dick York
Nick

Arthur Franz
Fred

Scott Forbes
Duke of Cornwall

Eric Fleming
Self

Larry Blyden
Kid Burns / Teddy Roosevelt

Hal March
George Bidwell

Edward Binns
Bitter ex-beau

Donald Harron
Jack Purdie

Georgann Johnson
Joanna Trout

Martin Landau
Jokanaan / John the Baptist

Hermione Gingold
Mrs. Hardcastle

Barbara Jefford
Kate Hardcastle

Art Carney
Self

John Sebastian
Self - Harmonica Player

Alexander Scourby
Odysseus / El Indio

Edward Andrews
Colonel Livingstone

Herbie Faye
Self - Performer

Bruce Gordon
Lt. Gen. James Longstreet

Wesley Lau
Maj. Gen. John B. Hood

William Smithers
Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill

Frank Aletter
Skiddy

Lee Meriwether
Beautiful Witch

Peter Ustinov
Dr. Samuel Johnson / Marshal / Director / Writer

Peter Falk
Charlie

John Cassavetes
Pepe

John Colicos
Gen. George McClellan

Michael Tolan
Abraham Lincoln

Geraldine Page
Governess

Bobby Clark
Painter

Bea Arthur

Dorothy Malone

Fredric March

Ed Asner

Siobhán McKenna

Arthur O'Connell

Susan Strasberg

Buddy Ebsen

Rex Harrison

Jacqueline Scott

Eli Wallach

Dennis Patrick

Sugar Ray Robinson

Phyllis Hill

Doreen Lang

Dickie Moore

Frank Marth

George Mathews

Ruth McDevitt

William Traylor

Carol Channing

John Marriott

Johnny Unitas

Addison Powell

Joseph Anthony

Edward Villella

Bruce Kirby

Robert Allen

Berry Kroeger

Elaine May

Jack Lord

Katharine Ross

Hume Cronyn

Lilia Skala

Michael Strong

William Saroyan

William Windom

Robert Altman

Ludwig Donath

Evelyn Rudie

Bert Lahr

John McGovern

Joan Diener

Esther Williams

Carmen Mathews

Michael Redgrave

Pat Stanley

Nadine Conner

Patrick McAlinney

Tommy Rettig

Douglass Watson

Jonathan Winters

Cyril Ritchard
Director

Mary Ure

Jean-Pierre Aumont

Yul Brynner
Director

Judith Evelyn

Patricia Smith

Charles Aidman

Joe Mantell

David Wayne

Mickey Mantle

Arthur Shields

Lorne Greene

Sam Levene

Carol Burnett

Ethel Barrymore

Eugene Ormandy

Ignatius Wolfington

Walter Slezak

Sal Mineo

Nancy Wickwire

Joseph Schildkraut

Lilyan Chauvin

Mabel Paige

Russell Nype

Lew Ayres

George Mitchell

Enid Markey

Leonard Bernstein

Joseph Campanella

Kay Medford

Tom Pedi

Joseph Ruskin

George C. Scott

Andrew Duggan

Rosemary Harris

Anne Jackson

Royal Dano

Jocelyn Brando

James Pritchett

Dick Button

Mark Daniels

Elizabeth Wilson
Details.
Release DateNovember 9, 1952
StatusEnded
Seasons8
Episodes157
Running Time30m
Content RatingNR
Genres
Last updated:
This TV Show Is About.
educational
Scripted
Wiki.
Omnibus was an American, commercially sponsored, educational variety television series.
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