Starring
Ian McShane
Ratings per Episode
Votes per Episode
Hollywood Greats Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 5.4 | 2.4 | 3.5 | 7.6 | 4.4 | 8.7 | |
| S2 | 6.4 | 1.7 | 8.8 | 6.2 | 8.4 | 8.1 | |
| S3 | 6.8 | 6.1 | 5.7 | 8.6 | |||
| S4 | 2.9 | 2.9 | |||||
| S5 | |||||||
| S6 | 7.2 | 4.8 | 9.7 | 5.4 | 7.1 | ||
| S7 | 6.9 | 8.0 | 6.7 | ||||
| S8 | 7.0 | 7.4 | 6.7 | 7.8 | 5.9 | ||
| S9 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 7.5 | ||||
| S10 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.7 | |||
| S11 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 9.2 | 8.3 | |||
| S12 | 6.2 | 2.6 | 6.9 | 9.1 |
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About
Hollywood Greats was a BBC Television series, which began in 1977. The film critic Barry Norman wrote and narrated a series of in depth profiles on major Hollywood film personalities, in which he interviewed surviving associates. He later made a series called British Greats in 1980. A series of books, entitled The Hollywood Greats, The Movie Greats and The British Greats, which were authored by Norman were subsequently published. A series of the same name was later presented by Jonathan Ross from 1999 to 2006.
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Season 11977
5.455651h 30m
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Season 21978
6.457451h 10m
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Season 31979
6.82585
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Season 4
2.9110340m
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Season 52004
—02
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Season 62005
7.24574
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Season 72006
6.9963
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Season 8
7.03754
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Season 9
8.12253
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Season 10
8.5332425m
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Season 11
8.83394
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Season 12
6.2325340m
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Barry Norman Self - Presenter
Jonathan Ross Self - Presenter, Self - Host, Narrator
David Thomson Self
Lauren Bacall Self
George Cukor Self
Roger Moore Self
Ian McShane Narrator
Robert Wagner Self
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Self
Dore Schary Self
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