Cast of
Talking Pictures

About Talking Pictures

A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.

Talking Pictures ran for 5 seasons.

Main Cast of Talking Pictures

Sylvia Syms
plays Narrator (81 episodes)

Secondary Cast of Talking Pictures

Peter O'Toole
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Peter O'Toole as Self (archive footage)

Peter Seamus O'Toole (2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was a British actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramati...

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Robert Mitchum
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Paul Newman
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Paul Newman as Self (archive footage)

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, human...

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Sophia Loren
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Sophia Loren as Self (archive footage)

Sophia Loren, OMRI (born Sofia Villani Scicolone; 20 September 1934) is an Italian actress. In 1962, Loren won the A...

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Laurence Olivier
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Deborah Kerr
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Richard Attenborough
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Richard Attenborough as Self (archive footage)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, Kt, CBE (29 August 1923 – 24...

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Joan Fontaine
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Shirley MacLaine
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Shirley MacLaine as Self (archive footage)

Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934) is an American actress, singer, author, activist, and f...

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Alfred Hitchcock
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Richard Burton
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Fred Astaire
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Ginger Rogers
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Charlton Heston
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Charlton Heston as Self (archive footage)

Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such...

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James Mason
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Gregory Peck
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Alec Guinness
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Alec Guinness as Self (archive footage)

Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Eal...

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Ingrid Bergman
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Orson Welles
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Lauren Bacall
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Lauren Bacall as Self (archive footage)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) ...

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James Stewart
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Dirk Bogarde
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Tony Curtis
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Tony Curtis as Self (archive footage)

Tony Curtis (June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had ...

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John Wayne
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Gene Kelly
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

David Niven
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

John Mills
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Bette Davis
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Maggie Smith
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Maggie Smith as Self (archive footage)

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress. She has had an extensive career on ...

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Judi Dench
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

David Lean
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Robert Redford
plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)

Robert Redford as Self (archive footage)

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor, director and activist. Throughout his career,...

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