Omnibus (1967)
Omnibus (1967)
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Humphrey Burton
Self - Presenter

Kirsty Wark
Self - Presenter

David Collings
Father

Stephen Fry
Self

Peter Sallis
Guest

Terry Gilliam
Self

David Puttnam
Self

André Previn
Self

Philip Bonham-Carter
Director of Photography

Jeff Perks
Director

Dave King
Editor

Eric Burdon
Self

Anthony Burgess
Self

Donovan
Self

George Harrison
Self

Jimi Hendrix
Self

Mick Jagger
Self

John Lennon
Self

Paul McCartney
Self

Ringo Starr
Self

Pete Townshend
Self

Roger Waters
Self

Frank Zappa
Self

Erika Bergmann
Fallen Woman

John Bird
Self

Eleanor Bron
Self

Tim Brooke-Taylor
Self

John Cleese
Self

Ian Hislop
Self

John Gielgud
Self

Vanessa Redgrave
Self

Donald Sinden
Self

Dennis Waterman
Self

Alec Guinness
Self

Laurence Olivier
Self (archive footage)

Paul Rogers
Self

Ralph Richardson
Self / Self / Johnson

Orson Welles
Self - Presenter

Ray Bolger
Self (archive footage)

Donald O'Connor
Self

Lillian Bronson
Cissie Chandler

Sue Lloyd
Linda Loring

Sarah Marshall
Muriel

Graham Greene
Self (voice)

James Bolam
Pinkie

Cyril Cusack
The Whisky Priest

Scott Forbes
Scobie

Sean Connery
Self

George Lazenby
Self (archive footage)

Lois Maxwell
Self

Diana Rigg
Self

Patrick Stewart
Cyrus Redding

Kenneth Colley
Hitler

Vladek Sheybal
Joseph Goebbels

Kenneth More
Self

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self - Narrator

Marius Goring
Self - Interviewee

Frank Dungan
Self - Narrator

Frank Duncan
Self - Narrator

Robert Shaw
Self

Ann Firbank
Beatrice Hastings

Catherine Schell
Lunia

John Shrapnel
Zborowski

David de Keyser
Self - Narrator

Hylda Baker
Self

Marti Caine
Self

Olga James
Self

Scarlet O'Hara
Self

Christine Pilgrim
Self

Beryl Reid
Self

Terri Rogers
Self

Mary Sheen
Self
Media.

Details.
Release DateOctober 13, 1967
StatusCanceled
Seasons36
Episodes338
Running Time1h
Genres
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Wiki.
Omnibus is a British documentary series broadcast mainly on BBC One. The programme was the successor to the 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 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards.
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