About Arena
- Released on October 01, 1975
Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.
Full Cast of Arena
Peter Blake plays Self (1 episode)
Paul Yates plays Self (1 episode)
Kendo Nagasaki plays Self (1 episode)
Sister Wendy Beckett plays Herself (1 episode)
Kenneth Anger plays Self (1 episode)
Jayne Mansfield plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Gloria Swanson plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Tom Mix plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Gig Young plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
James Dean plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Ramon Novarro plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Marianne Faithfull plays Self (1 episode)
Michael McShane plays Fatty Arbuckle / The God of Hollywood (as Mike McShane) (1 episode)
Aaron Stafford plays The Young Kenneth Anger (1 episode)
Tracy Vivat plays Lupe Velez (as Tracey Vivat) (1 episode)
Loretta Lynn plays Self (1 episode)
Willie Nelson plays Self (1 episode)
Sheryl Crow plays Self (1 episode)
Garth Brooks plays Self (1 episode)
Jack White plays Self (1 episode)
Sissy Spacek plays Self (1 episode)
Penelope Wilton plays Self - Narrator (1 episode)
Paul Tickell plays Self - Narrator (1 episode)
Terry Hall plays Self (1 episode)
Lynval Golding plays Self (1 episode)
Neville Staple plays Self (1 episode)
Adrian Thrills plays Self/Host (1 episode)
Jerry Dammers plays Self (1 episode)
Pauline Black plays Self (1 episode)
Rico Rodriguez plays Self (1 episode)
Crew of Arena
Editing
Directing
Production
Writing
- Peter Blake
- Paul Yates
- Kendo Nagasaki
- Sister Wendy Beckett
- Kenneth Anger
- Jayne Mansfield
- Gloria Swanson
- Tom Mix
- Gig Young
- James Dean
- Ramon Novarro
- Marianne Faithfull
- Michael McShane
- Aaron Stafford
- Tracy Vivat
- Loretta Lynn
- Willie Nelson
- Sheryl Crow
- Garth Brooks
- Jack White
- Sissy Spacek
- Penelope Wilton
- Paul Tickell
- Terry Hall
- Lynval Golding
- Neville Staple
- Adrian Thrills
- Jerry Dammers
- Pauline Black
- Rico Rodriguez