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The Hollywood Greats

1977 – 2006 · BBC One
7 seasons · 30 episodes
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Hollywood Greats was a BBC Television series, which began in 1977. The film critic Barry Norman wrote and narrated a series of in depth profiles on major Hollywood film personalities, in which he interviewed surviving associates. He later made a series called British Greats in 1980. A series of books, entitled The Hollywood Greats, The Movie Greats and The British Greats, which were authored by Norman were subsequently published. A series of the same name was later presented by Jonathan Ross from 1999 to 2006.

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Jonathan Ross
Self - Presenter
Tony Curtis
Self (archive footage)
Shelley Winters
Gene Hackman
Alan Rickman
Maureen O'Hara
Daryl Hannah
Martin Scorsese
Self

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Status
Ended
Type
Documentary
First aired
Aug 4, 1977
Original language
EN
Country
GB

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