Hollywood Greats

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Hollywood Greats is a BBC Television series, which originally ran from 1977 to 1985. 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 was also responsible for a series called British Greats in 1980. A series of books, titled The Hollywood Greats, The Movie Greats and The British Greats, which were written by Norman, were published.

A series with the same title was narrated by Ian McShane in 1999 and presented by Jonathan Ross from 2002 to 2007.

• Clark Gable (1901–1960)
• Errol Flynn (1909–1959)
• Spencer Tracy (1900–1967)
• Gary Cooper (1901–1961)
• Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957)

• Joan Crawford (1904–1977)
• Ronald Colman (1891–1958)
• Jean Harlow (1911–1937)
• Judy Garland (1922–1969)
• Charles Laughton (1899–1962)

• Edward G. Robinson (1893–1973)
• Groucho Marx (1890–1977)
• Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)
• Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962)
• Hollywood – The Golden Years

• John Wayne (1907–1979)
• Henry Fonda (1905–1982)
• Steve McQueen (1930–1980)
• David Niven (1910–1983)
• Bing Crosby (1903–1977)

The first series was narrated by Ian McShane, the rest were presented by Jonathan Ross. The programme dedicated to Audrey Hepburn was broadcast two months before the following series. The details on the BBC website do not match the series number given here.

• Cary Grant (1904–1986)
• Bette Davis (1908–1989)
• Robert Mitchum (1917–1997)
• Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003)

• Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993)

• Judy Garland (1922–1969)
• Gene Kelly (1912–1996)
• Sammy Davis Jr. (1925–1990)

• Steve McQueen (1930–1980)
• Doris Day (1922–2019)
• Tony Curtis (1925–2010)
• Burt Lancaster (1913–1994)

• Michael Caine (born 1933)
• Kirk Douglas (1916-2020)
• James Stewart (1908–1997)

• Dustin Hoffman (born 1937)
• Richard Harris (1930–2002)
• John Wayne (1907–1979)
• Anthony Hopkins (born 1937)

• Tom Cruise (born 1962)
• Lauren Bacall (1924–2014)
• Jane Fonda (born 1937)
• David Niven (1910–1983)

• Harrison Ford (born 1942)
• Jack Lemmon (1925–2001)
• Marlon Brando (1924–2004)

• Dame Helen Mirren (born 1945)