About Legends
- Released on November 17, 2006
The story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for the new rock 'n' roll - comedy.
Full Cast of Legends
Roy Orbison plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Barbara Orbison plays Self - widow (1 episode)
Terry Widlake plays Self - Road Manager (1 episode)
Jeff Lynne plays Self (1 episode)
Johnny Cash plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Olivia Harrison plays Self (1 episode)
Bono plays Self (1 episode)
Tony King plays Self - Promotions Man (1 episode)
Robin Gibb plays Self (1 episode)
Gerry Marsden plays Self (1 episode)
David Lynch plays Self (1 episode)
Joe Walsh plays Self (1 episode)
Bernie Taupin plays Self (1 episode)
Sophie Walton Masters plays Self - Commentary (voice) (1 episode)
Bill Wyman plays Self (1 episode)
Mario Lanza plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Gavin Lambert plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Luisa DiMeo plays Self (1 episode)
Murray Garrett plays Self (1 episode)
Sara Montiel plays Self (1 episode)
Peter Prichard plays Self (1 episode)
Terry Robinson plays Self (1 episode)
Petula Clark plays Self (1 episode)
Honor Blackman plays Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Michael Ball plays Self (1 episode)
David Cassidy plays Self (1 episode)
Bill Kenwright plays Self (1 episode)
Rod McKuen plays Self (1 episode)
Paul Morley plays Self (2 episodes)
Lucy O'Brien plays Self (1 episode)
Jackie Trent plays Self (1 episode)
Andy Williams plays Self (1 episode)
Kathy Wolff plays Self (1 episode)
Val Doonican plays Self (1 episode)
Pauline McLynn plays Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Gerry Anderson plays Self (1 episode)
Arthur Askey plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Michael Caine plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Rosemary Clooney plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Bing Crosby plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
John Denver plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Crystal Gayle plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Rolf Harris plays Self (1 episode)
Gloria Hunniford plays Self (1 episode)
Yvonne Littlewood plays Self (1 episode)
Anthony Newley plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Django Reinhardt plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
John Williams plays Self (1 episode)
Dave Allen plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Joyce Grenfell plays Self / Various characters (archive footage) (1 episode)
Richard Baker plays Self (1 episode)
Frith Banbury plays Self (1 episode)
Kit Hesketh-Harvey plays Self (1 episode)
Myra Hess plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Dillie Keane plays Self (1 episode)
Maureen Lipman plays Self (2 episodes)
Denis Moriarty plays Self (1 episode)
Daphne Oxenford plays Self (1 episode)
Doris Day plays Various Roles (archive footage) (1 episode)
Michael Brandon plays Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Howard Keel plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode) , Wild Bill Hickok (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Richard Carpenter plays Self (2 episodes)
Terence Davies plays Self (1 episode)
Marilyn French plays Self (1 episode)
James Garner plays Self (1 episode)
Molly Haskell plays Self (1 episode)
A. E. Hotchner plays Self (1 episode)
Jackie Joseph plays Self (1 episode)
Don Pippin plays Self (1 episode)
Ethel Barrymore plays Aunt Jessie Tuttle (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
James Cagney plays Martin Snyder (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Eddie Foy Jr. plays Vernon Hines (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Carol Haney plays Gladys Hotchkiss (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Charles Lane plays Roy (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Allyn Ann McLerie plays Katie Brown (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Martin Melcher plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Janis Paige plays Elvira Kent (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Thelma Pelish plays Mae (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
John Raitt plays Sid Sorokin (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Tony Randall plays Pete Ramsey (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Reta Shaw plays Mabel (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Sidney Skolsky plays Sidney Skolsky (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Rod Taylor plays Mike Harper (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Alma Cogan plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Siriol Jenkins plays Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Sandra Caron plays Self - Younger Sister (1 episode)
Bill Cotton plays Self (2 episodes)
Bruce Forsyth plays Self (1 episode)
Andrew Loog Oldham plays Self (1 episode)
Rosemary Squires plays Self (1 episode)
Vera Lynn plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Lynne Seymour plays Self - Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Betty Boothroyd plays Self (1 episode)
James Galway plays Self (1 episode) , Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Betty Driver plays Self (1 episode)
Ralph Harvey plays Self (1 episode)
David Jacobs plays Self (1 episode)
Marcel Stellman plays Self (1 episode)
Carmen Miranda plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Carla Mendonça plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Ruy Castro plays Self (1 episode)
Mickey Rooney plays Self (1 episode)
Matt Monro plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Neil Pearson plays Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
John Barry plays Self (1 episode)
Don Black plays Self (1 episode)
Robert Elms plays Self (1 episode)
Paul Gambaccini plays Self (1 episode)
Robert Hewison plays Self (1 episode)
George Martin plays Self (1 episode)
Al Bowlly plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Ian Holm plays Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Carrie Grant plays Self (1 episode)
Hugh Hefner plays Self (1 episode)
Denis Norden plays Self (2 episodes)
Jimmy Perry plays Self (1 episode)
Tony Staveacre plays Self (1 episode)
Jacques Brel plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Louis Prima plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Sam Butera plays Self (1 episode)
Ron Cannatella plays Self (1 episode)
Gia Maione plays Self (1 episode)
Louis Prima Jr. plays Self (1 episode)
Bruce Boyd Raeburn plays Self (1 episode)
John Dankworth plays Self (1 episode)
Russell Davies plays Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Cleo Laine plays Self (1 episode)
Alec Dankworth plays Self (1 episode)
Jacqui Dankworth plays Self (1 episode)
Laurie Holloway plays Self (1 episode)
Julian Lloyd Webber plays Self (1 episode)
Laurie Morgan plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Mark Nightingale plays Self (1 episode)
Alan Plater plays Self (1 episode)
Ned Sherrin plays Self (1 episode)
Kevin Whately plays Self (1 episode)
Ella Fitzgerald plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
James Last plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Richard Clayderman plays Self (1 episode)
Ron Last plays Self (1 episode)
Édith Piaf plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Gene Lees plays Self (1 episode)
Ute Lemper plays Self (1 episode)
Kevin Conneff plays Self (1 episode)
Andrea Corr plays Self (1 episode)
Elvis Costello plays Self (2 episodes)
Seán Keane plays Self (1 episode)
Paddy Moloney plays Self (1 episode)
Keith Richards plays Self (1 episode)
Sting plays Self (1 episode)
Marty Feldman plays Self / Various (archive footage) (1 episode)
Nigel Planer plays Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Don Archell plays Self (1 episode)
Tim Brooke-Taylor plays Self (1 episode)
Jim Clark plays Self (1 episode)
John Cleese plays Self (1 episode)
Dick Clement plays Self (1 episode)
Dom DeLuise plays Self (1 episode)
Stanley Dorfman plays Self (1 episode)
Lauretta Feldman plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
David Frost plays Self (1 episode)
Larry Gelbart plays Self (1 episode)
Denis King plays Self (1 episode)
Ian La Frenais plays Self (1 episode)
Barry Levinson plays Self (1 episode)
Allan McKeown plays Self (1 episode)
Michael Palin plays Self (1 episode)
Geoffrey Robertson plays Self (1 episode)
Barry Took plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Lyn Took plays Self (1 episode)
Gene Wilder plays Self (1 episode)
Anne Bancroft plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Mel Brooks plays Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Graham Chapman plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Teri Garr plays Inga (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Madeline Kahn plays Elizabeth (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Andy Kaufman plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Buster Keaton plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Louise Lasser plays Mary (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Dean Martin plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Richard Pryor plays G.O.D. (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Barney Ales plays Self (1 episode)
Rosalind Ashford plays Self (1 episode)
Madeline Bell plays Self (1 episode)
Tony Blackburn plays Self (1 episode)
Lamont Dozier plays Self (1 episode)
Abdul 'Duke' Fakir plays Self (1 episode)
Brian Holland plays Self (1 episode)
Eddie Holland plays Self (1 episode)
Paul McCartney plays Self (1 episode)
Martha Reeves plays Self (1 episode)
Claudette Robinson plays Self (1 episode)
Vicki Wickham plays Self (1 episode)
Mary Wilson plays Self (1 episode)
Marc Warren plays Self - Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Laverne Andrews plays Self - The Andrews Sisters (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Seán Carlsen plays Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode) , Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Patty Andrews plays Self - The Andrews Sisters (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Bobby Ball plays Self (2 episodes)
Tommy Cannon plays Self (2 episodes)
Maxene Andrews plays Self - The Andrews Sisters (archive footage) (1 episode) , Self - The Andrews Sisters (archive footage) (1 episode)
Max Clifford plays Self (2 episodes)
Ernest Maxin plays Self (2 episodes)
Bob Monkhouse plays Joy Beverley (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Peter Stringfellow plays Self (2 episodes)
Jimmy Tarbuck plays Self (2 episodes)
Julie London plays Self (1 episode)
Mariella Frostrup plays Self - Narrator (1 episode)
Mari Wilson plays Self (1 episode)
Josephine Baker plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Josette Simon plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Patti Boulaye plays Self (1 episode)
Molly Molloy plays Self (1 episode)
Michael York plays Self (uncredited) (1 episode) , Self (1 episode)
Daniel André Pageon plays Self (1 episode)
Neil Sedaka plays Self (1 episode)
Carole Bayer Sager plays Self (1 episode)
Connie Francis plays Self (1 episode)
Don Kirshner plays Self - Co-founder, Aldon Music (1 episode)
Philip Norman plays Self - Writer (1 episode)
Jay Siegel plays Self - The Tokens (1 episode)
Mark Radcliffe plays Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Blondie Chaplin plays Self - Beach Boys Guitarist (1 episode)
John Hanlon plays Self - Recording Engineer (1 episode)
Taylor Hawkins plays Self - Drummer, The Foo Fighters (1 episode)
Gregg Jakobson plays Self - Producer (1 episode)
Al Jardine plays Self - Beach Boy (1 episode)
David Marks plays Self - Founding Member, Beach Boys (1 episode)
Jon Stebbins plays Self - Biographer (1 episode)
Ron Swallow plays Self - Beach Boys Roadie (1 episode)
Brian Wilson plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Bruce Johnston plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Karen Lamm plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Mike Love plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Charles Manson plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Aubree Wilson plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Carl Wilson plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Dennis Wilson plays Self / The Mechanic (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Joan Sutherland plays Self (1 episode)
Richard Bonynge plays Self (1 episode)
Plácido Domingo plays Self (1 episode)
Luciano Pavarotti plays Self (1 episode)
Franco Zeffirelli plays Self (1 episode)
Herb Alpert plays Self (1 episode)
Lou Adler plays Self (1 episode)
Randy "Badazz" Alpert plays Self (1 episode)
Robert Edmondson plays Self - Trombone, The Tijuana Brass (1 episode)
Gil Friesen plays Self (1 episode)
Lani Hall plays Self (1 episode)
Barney Hoskyns plays Self (1 episode)
Quincy Jones plays Self (1 episode)
Terry Lewis plays Self (1 episode)
Sérgio Mendes plays Self (1 episode)
Jerry Moss plays Self (1 episode)
John Pisano plays Self - Guitar, The Tijuana Brass (1 episode)
Pat Senatore plays Self - Bass, The Tijuana Brass (1 episode)
Stephen Fry plays Self (uncredited) (1 episode)
Naphtalia Loderick plays Actor in Reenactment Scenes (1 episode)
Maurice Tompkins plays Actor in Reenactment Scenes (1 episode)
Elis Williams plays Actor in Reenactment Scenes (1 episode)
Osian Williams-Huw plays Actor in Reenactment Scenes (1 episode)
Gene Barge plays Self (1 episode)
Marshall Chess plays Self - Son of Leonard Chess (1 episode)
Chuck D plays Self (1 episode)
Mick Hucknall plays Self (1 episode)
Paul Jones plays Self (1 episode)
Charlie Musselwhite plays Self (1 episode)
Jimmy Page plays Self (1 episode)
Steven Van Zandt plays Self (1 episode)
Andre Williams plays Self (1 episode)
Philip Glenister plays Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Eric Bell plays Self (1 episode)
Brian Downey plays Self (1 episode)
Bob Geldof plays Self (1 episode)
Scott Gorham plays Self (1 episode)
Phil Lynott plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Frank Murray plays Self - Thin Lizzy Road Manager (1 episode)
Brian Robertson plays Self (1 episode)
Midge Ure plays Self (1 episode)
Tony Visconti plays Self (1 episode)
Crew of Legends
Camera
Directing
Editing
Production
Sound
Writing
- Roy Orbison
- Barbara Orbison
- Terry Widlake
- Jeff Lynne
- Johnny Cash
- Olivia Harrison
- Bono
- Tony King
- Robin Gibb
- Gerry Marsden
- David Lynch
- Joe Walsh
- Bernie Taupin
- Sophie Walton Masters
- Bill Wyman
- Mario Lanza
- Gavin Lambert
- Luisa DiMeo
- Murray Garrett
- Sara Montiel
- Peter Prichard
- Terry Robinson
- Petula Clark
- Honor Blackman
- Michael Ball
- David Cassidy
- Bill Kenwright
- Rod McKuen
- Paul Morley
- Lucy O'Brien
- Jackie Trent
- Andy Williams
- Kathy Wolff
- Val Doonican
- Pauline McLynn
- Gerry Anderson
- Arthur Askey
- Michael Caine
- Rosemary Clooney
- Bing Crosby
- John Denver
- Crystal Gayle
- Rolf Harris
- Gloria Hunniford
- Yvonne Littlewood
- Anthony Newley
- Django Reinhardt
- John Williams
- Dave Allen
- Joyce Grenfell
- Richard Baker
- Frith Banbury
- Kit Hesketh-Harvey
- Myra Hess
- Dillie Keane
- Maureen Lipman
- Denis Moriarty
- Daphne Oxenford
- Doris Day
- Michael Brandon
- Howard Keel
- Richard Carpenter
- Terence Davies
- Marilyn French
- James Garner
- Molly Haskell
- A. E. Hotchner
- Jackie Joseph
- Don Pippin
- Ethel Barrymore
- James Cagney
- Eddie Foy Jr.
- Carol Haney
- Charles Lane
- Allyn Ann McLerie
- Martin Melcher
- Janis Paige
- Thelma Pelish
- John Raitt
- Tony Randall
- Reta Shaw
- Sidney Skolsky
- Rod Taylor
- Alma Cogan
- Siriol Jenkins
- Sandra Caron
- Bill Cotton
- Bruce Forsyth
- Andrew Loog Oldham
- Rosemary Squires
- Vera Lynn
- Lynne Seymour
- Betty Boothroyd
- James Galway
- Betty Driver
- Ralph Harvey
- David Jacobs
- Marcel Stellman
- Carmen Miranda
- Carla Mendonça
- Ruy Castro
- Mickey Rooney
- Matt Monro
- Neil Pearson
- John Barry
- Don Black
- Robert Elms
- Paul Gambaccini
- Robert Hewison
- George Martin
- Al Bowlly
- Ian Holm
- Carrie Grant
- Hugh Hefner
- Denis Norden
- Jimmy Perry
- Tony Staveacre
- Jacques Brel
- Louis Prima
- Sam Butera
- Ron Cannatella
- Gia Maione
- Louis Prima Jr.
- Bruce Boyd Raeburn
- John Dankworth
- Russell Davies
- Cleo Laine
- Alec Dankworth
- Jacqui Dankworth
- Laurie Holloway
- Julian Lloyd Webber
- Laurie Morgan
- Mark Nightingale
- Alan Plater
- Ned Sherrin
- Kevin Whately
- Ella Fitzgerald
- James Last
- Richard Clayderman
- Ron Last
- Édith Piaf
- Gene Lees
- Ute Lemper
- Kevin Conneff
- Andrea Corr
- Elvis Costello
- Seán Keane
- Paddy Moloney
- Keith Richards
- Sting
- Marty Feldman
- Nigel Planer
- Don Archell
- Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Jim Clark
- John Cleese
- Dick Clement
- Dom DeLuise
- Stanley Dorfman
- Lauretta Feldman
- David Frost
- Larry Gelbart
- Denis King
- Ian La Frenais
- Barry Levinson
- Allan McKeown
- Michael Palin
- Geoffrey Robertson
- Barry Took
- Lyn Took
- Gene Wilder
- Anne Bancroft
- Mel Brooks
- Graham Chapman
- Teri Garr
- Madeline Kahn
- Andy Kaufman
- Buster Keaton
- Louise Lasser
- Dean Martin
- Richard Pryor
- Barney Ales
- Rosalind Ashford
- Madeline Bell
- Tony Blackburn
- Lamont Dozier
- Abdul 'Duke' Fakir
- Brian Holland
- Eddie Holland
- Paul McCartney
- Martha Reeves
- Claudette Robinson
- Vicki Wickham
- Mary Wilson
- Marc Warren
- Laverne Andrews
- Seán Carlsen
- Patty Andrews
- Bobby Ball
- Tommy Cannon
- Maxene Andrews
- Max Clifford
- Ernest Maxin
- Bob Monkhouse
- Peter Stringfellow
- Jimmy Tarbuck
- Julie London
- Mariella Frostrup
- Mari Wilson
- Josephine Baker
- Josette Simon
- Patti Boulaye
- Molly Molloy
- Michael York
- Daniel André Pageon
- Neil Sedaka
- Carole Bayer Sager
- Connie Francis
- Don Kirshner
- Philip Norman
- Jay Siegel
- Mark Radcliffe
- Blondie Chaplin
- John Hanlon
- Taylor Hawkins
- Gregg Jakobson
- Al Jardine
- David Marks
- Jon Stebbins
- Ron Swallow
- Brian Wilson
- Bruce Johnston
- Karen Lamm
- Mike Love
- Charles Manson
- Aubree Wilson
- Carl Wilson
- Dennis Wilson
- Joan Sutherland
- Richard Bonynge
- Plácido Domingo
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Franco Zeffirelli
- Herb Alpert
- Lou Adler
- Randy "Badazz" Alpert
- Robert Edmondson
- Gil Friesen
- Lani Hall
- Barney Hoskyns
- Quincy Jones
- Terry Lewis
- Sérgio Mendes
- Jerry Moss
- John Pisano
- Pat Senatore
- Stephen Fry
- Naphtalia Loderick
- Maurice Tompkins
- Elis Williams
- Osian Williams-Huw
- Gene Barge
- Marshall Chess
- Chuck D
- Mick Hucknall
- Paul Jones
- Charlie Musselwhite
- Jimmy Page
- Steven Van Zandt
- Andre Williams
- Philip Glenister
- Eric Bell
- Brian Downey
- Bob Geldof
- Scott Gorham
- Phil Lynott
- Frank Murray
- Brian Robertson
- Midge Ure
- Tony Visconti