Cast and Crew of Arena

Arena

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

Sister Wendy Beckett

as Herself (1 episode)

Kenneth Anger

as Self (1 episode)

Jayne Mansfield

as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Gloria Swanson

as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Tom Mix

as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Gig Young

as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

James Dean

as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Ramon Novarro

as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Marianne Faithfull

as Self (1 episode)

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Michael McShane

as Fatty Arbuckle / The God of Hollywood (as Mike McShane) (1 episode)

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Loretta Lynn

as Self (1 episode)

Willie Nelson

as Self (1 episode)

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Sheryl Crow

as Self (1 episode)

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Garth Brooks

as Self (1 episode)

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Jack White

as Self (1 episode)

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Sissy Spacek

as Self (1 episode)

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Penelope Wilton

as Self - Narrator (1 episode)

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Terry Hall

as Self (1 episode)

Mel Brooks

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Michael Powell

Emeric Pressburger

Louise Brooks

Linda Hunt

as Narrator (1 episode)

Eric Sykes

Peter Blake

as Self (1 episode)

Paul Yates

as Self (1 episode)

Kendo Nagasaki

as Self (1 episode)

Aaron Stafford

as The Young Kenneth Anger (1 episode)

Tracy Vivat

as Lupe Velez (as Tracey Vivat) (1 episode)

Paul Tickell

as Self - Narrator (1 episode)

Lynval Golding

as Self (1 episode)

Neville Staple

as Self (1 episode)

Adrian Thrills

as Self/Host (1 episode)

Jerry Dammers

as Self (1 episode)

Pauline Black

as Self (1 episode)

Rico Rodriguez

as Self (1 episode)

Crew of Arena

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