Monitor

1958    30mDocumentary, Talk Show
8.5
Fortnightly arts show from the BBC, covering the worlds of theatre, film, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture and music.

Where to Watch Monitor

8 Seasons

  • Season 1
    Season 113 Episodes
  • Season 2
    Season 221 Episodes
  • Season 3
    Season 326 Episodes
  • Season 4
    Season 427 Episodes
  • Season 5
    Season 520 Episodes
  • Season 6
    Season 633 Episodes
  • Season 7
    Season 726 Episodes
  • Season 8
    Season 818 Episodes

Cast of Monitor

  • Huw WheldonSelf - Presenter
  • Jonathan MillerSelf - Presenter / Director
  • John BergerSelf - Presenter
  • Robert RobinsonSelf - Interviewer
  • John BetjemanSelf
  • Annette RobertsonAlfred Jarry
  • Peter BrettBluebeard
  • Pauline BotyProstitute
  • Izabella TelezynskaJosephine
  • Oliver ReedClaude Debussy
  • Boris RanevskyBéla Bartók
  • James LloydHenri Rousseau
  • Susan SontagSelf
  • Peggy AshcroftSelf
  • Bert HaanstraSelf
  • Orson WellesSelf
  • Spike MilliganSelf
  • Robert ColquhounSelf
  • David HurnSelf
  • Philip LarkinSelf - Poet
  • Duke EllingtonSelf - 'Duke Ellington'
  • Humphrey LytteltonSelf - Presenter, 'Duke Ellington'
  • Peter NewingtonSelf - Presenter / Director / Producer
  • Robert MacBrydeSelf
  • Douglas CooperSelf - Presenter, 'Picasso'
  • John Douglas PringleSelf - Narrator, 'Man In A Landscape...'
  • Michael CaineSelf - Presenter
  • Peter BlakeSelf
  • Clive BarnesSelf - Presenter, 'Rudolf Nureyev'
  • Alfred HitchcockSelf - Interviewee
  • Vladek SheybalFilm Director
  • Alberto GiacomettiSelf - 'Why So Thin'
  • John DankworthSelf - 'Duke Ellington'
  • Allan McClellandCommentator
  • Sidney NolanSelf - 'Man In A Landscape...'
  • Rudolf NureyevSelf - 'Rudolf Nureyev'
  • Rowena GregoryMrs. Elgar
  • Derek BoshierSelf
  • Sandor ElèsClient
  • Bryan PringlePere Ubu
  • George MellySelf - Presenter 'The Middle-Class Magician'
  • Pablo PicassoSelf - Subject, 'Picasso'
  • George McGrathSir Edward Elgar
  • Peter PhillipsSelf
  • René MagritteSelf - 'The Middle-Class Magician'
  • Jacqui CookMere Ubu
  • The Johnny Dankworth OrchestraThemselves - 'Duke Ellington'
  • Friso ten HoltSelf - 'Friso ten Holt'
  • Rosalind WatkinsJudith
  • Roland MacLeodApollinaire
  • Penny ServiceLily
  • Georgette MagritteSelf - 'The Middle-Class Magician'
  • John LehmannSelf - Presenter, 'Aldous Huxley'
  • Vernon DobtcheffThe Actor
  • Aldous HuxleySelf - 'Aldous Huxley'
  • Andy WarholSelf - 'Cheese...Andy Warhol's Studio'
  • Stephanie RandallSecretary
  • Dorothy-Rose GribbleEugénie
  • Gerard MalangaSelf - 'Cheese...Andy Warhol's Studio'
  • Jane LumbSaint Sebastian
  • Sheila Van Bloemen1st Neighbour
  • Cilli WangSelf - 'Cilli Wang'
  • Ann Mitchell2nd Neighbour
  • Yvonne AntrobusStage Lily
  • Verity EdmettZohra, the slave girl
  • Joanna RigbyDaughter
  • Janet FairheadChouchou at 13
  • Michael Van BloemenPicture Dealer
  • Alison FiskeMaeterlinck's girlfriend
  • Kenneth GoodareMusician
  • Ian FlintoffStage Debussy
  • Paul CameronMusician
  • Elna PearlVasnier daughter
  • Peter MathesonMusician
  • Yvette ReesStage Madame Bardac
  • Jane AndersonMusician
  • Audrey SearleMadame Vasnier
  • Keith SmithReporter
  • Fred TaylorMonsieur Vasnier
  • Emlyn Williamscast
  • Mogens Wiethcast
  • Aaron CoplandSelf
  • P.G. WodehouseSelf
  • Kingsley AmisSelf
  • Robert ArdreySelf
  • Simon RavenSelf
  • Bernard BuffetSelf
  • Bernard MilesSelf
  • Paddy ChayefskySelf
  • Georges SimenonSelf
  • Leonard BernsteinSelf
  • Paul RobesonSelf
  • Christopher IsherwoodSelf
  • Jerome RobbinsInterviewee
  • William GoldingSelf
  • Fritz KortnerSelf
  • Frank DuncanNarrator
  • T.H. WhiteSelf
  • Robert GravesSelf
  • Humphrey BurtonCommentator
  • Joan LittlewoodSelf
  • Yehudi MenuhinSelf
  • Tyrone GuthrieSelf
  • Gerry RafflesSelf
  • Jacques DevalSelf
  • Davy GrahamSelf
  • Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-GrisSelf
  • Gordon JacobSelf
  • Thomas BeechamSelf
  • Jacques LipchitzSelf
  • Davina DundasSinger guitarist
  • Frank DuncanCommentator
  • Thurston DartSelf
  • Mr. SkinnerInstructor
  • Alfred WallisSelf
  • Wanda LandowskaSelf
  • Arvo Boyscast
  • Laurie GriffithsBoy learning guitar
  • Teresa PowerSpectator
  • Evelyn WildingCleaner
  • Len WilliamsInstructor
  • John WiliamsConcert guitarist
  • Rod SteigerSelf
  • Harold PinterSelf
  • John MortimerSelf
  • Mary McCarthySelf
  • W.H. AudenSelf
  • Shelagh DelaneySelf
  • Marie RambertSelf
  • Henry MooreSelf
  • John CrankoSelf
  • Rudolf BingSelf
  • George LammingSelf
  • Edgar MittelholzerSelf
  • Katina PaxinouSelf
  • Ian BannenHamlet
  • Lotte Lenyacast
  • Harold LangSelf - Acting Teacher
  • Peter WoodSelf = Interviewee
  • Michael ShawWalk on
  • Annette MichelsonReading Russian score
  • Miss VarnavidesYoung Prokofiev
  • V.P. GregoriyZhdanov
  • Joyce RathboneMusic Teacher
  • Philip JenkinsHands playing piano
  • James Fortycast
  • James Earl JonesPrince of Morocco
  • George C. ScottShylock
  • Joseph PappSelf
  • Peter O'TooleSelf
  • Michael HordernPreacher (The Sermon)
  • Kenneth WilliamsSelf
  • Gillian LynneSelf
  • Alita NaughtonModel
  • Ernest MiltonSelf
  • Hans KellerSelf
  • Lukas FossSelf
  • Ben ShahnSelf
  • Robert JacobsenSelf
  • Frank McEwenSelf
  • TortelierSelf
  • Barry HumphriesSelf
  • Evelyn WaughSelf
  • Elizabeth Jane HowardSelf
  • Robert RauschenbergSelf
  • Claude Lévi-StraussSelf
  • Margaret DaleSelf
  • Anthony StorrSelf
  • Joe TilsonSelf
  • Norman MailerSelf
  • Malcolm MuggeridgeSelf
  • Don McCullinSelf
  • John BarbirolliSelf
  • Evelyn RothwellSelf
  • Naum GaboSelf
  • Barry EvansStudent
  • Ken RussellBit part / Director / Producer
  • Janet LynnBit part
  • Carmen DeneGirl
  • Delia WicksGirl
  • Maurice BushThug
  • Lance GeorgeExtra
  • David WilliscroftExtra
  • Fran BrowneExtra
  • Vicki RussellChouchou
  • Peter MuntHorse-handler
  • Peter SinfieldDancer
  • Kathy FitzgibbonExtra at funeral
  • David BrewsterExtra at funeral
  • Frank SussmanExtra at funeral
  • John SchlesingerDirector
  • Melvyn BraggDirector / Producer
  • Nancy ThomasDirector
  • Michael GillDirector / Producer
  • Peter ZadekDirector
  • David Hugh JonesDirector / Producer
  • Patrick GarlandDirector / Writer
  • Jacquetta HawkesWriter
  • Catherine FreemanProducer
  • David E. JonesProducer
  • Robin KeamProducer

 

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