The Hollywood Greats
TV ShowTitle | The Hollywood Greats |
User score | 3.5 |
Release date | Aug 4, 1977 |
Release date of last episode | Apr 18, 2006 |
Genre | Documentary |
Production country | GB |
Series status | Ended |
Seasons count | 7 (List of episodes) |
Episodes count | 30 |
Run time | 40 min. |
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.