Monitor (1958) | Full Cast

Ken Russell

DIRECTOR

John Schlesinger

DIRECTOR

Melvyn Bragg

DIRECTOR

Nancy Thomas

DIRECTOR

Michael Gill

DIRECTOR

Peter Zadek

DIRECTOR

David Hugh Jones

DIRECTOR

Peter Newington

DIRECTOR

Patrick Garland

DIRECTOR

Jonathan Miller

DIRECTOR

Huw Wheldon

Self - Presenter

Jonathan Miller

Self - Presenter

John Berger

Self - Presenter

Robert Robinson

Self - Interviewer

John Betjeman

Self

Annette Robertson

Alfred Jarry

Peter Brett

Bluebeard

Pauline Boty

Prostitute

Izabella Telezynska

Josephine

Oliver Reed

Claude Debussy

Boris Ranevsky

Béla Bartók

James Lloyd

Henri Rousseau

Susan Sontag

Self

Peggy Ashcroft

Self

Bert Haanstra

Self

Orson Welles

Self

Spike Milligan

Self

Robert Colquhoun

Self

David Hurn

Self

Philip Larkin

Self - Poet

Duke Ellington

Self - 'Duke Ellington'

Humphrey Lyttelton

Self - Presenter, 'Duke Ellington'

Peter Newington

Self - Presenter

Robert MacBryde

Self

Douglas Cooper

Self - Presenter, 'Picasso'

John Douglas Pringle

Self - Narrator, 'Man In A Landscape...'

Michael Caine

Self - Presenter

Peter Blake

Self

Clive Barnes

Self - Presenter, 'Rudolf Nureyev'

Alfred Hitchcock

Self - Interviewee

Vladek Sheybal

Film Director

Alberto Giacometti

Self - 'Why So Thin'

John Dankworth

Self - 'Duke Ellington'

Allan McClelland

Commentator

Sidney Nolan

Self - 'Man In A Landscape...'

Rudolf Nureyev

Self - 'Rudolf Nureyev'

Rowena Gregory

Mrs. Elgar

Derek Boshier

Self

Sandor Elès

Client

Bryan Pringle

Pere Ubu

George Melly

Self - Presenter 'The Middle-Class Magician'

Pablo Picasso

Self - Subject, 'Picasso'

George McGrath

Sir Edward Elgar

Peter Phillips

Self

René Magritte

Self - 'The Middle-Class Magician'

Jacqui Cook

Mere Ubu

The Johnny Dankworth Orchestra

Themselves - 'Duke Ellington'

Friso ten Holt

Self - 'Friso ten Holt'

Rosalind Watkins

Judith

Roland MacLeod

Apollinaire

Penny Service

Lily

Georgette Magritte

Self - 'The Middle-Class Magician'

John Lehmann

Self - Presenter, 'Aldous Huxley'

Vernon Dobtcheff

The Actor

Aldous Huxley

Self - 'Aldous Huxley'

Andy Warhol

Self - 'Cheese...Andy Warhol's Studio'

Stephanie Randall

Secretary

Dorothy-Rose Gribble

Eugénie

Gerard Malanga

Self - 'Cheese...Andy Warhol's Studio'

Jane Lumb

Saint Sebastian

Sheila Van Bloemen

1st Neighbour

Cilli Wang

Self - 'Cilli Wang'

Ann Mitchell

2nd Neighbour

Yvonne Antrobus

Stage Lily

Verity Edmett

Zohra, the slave girl

Joanna Rigby

Daughter

Janet Fairhead

Chouchou at 13

Michael Van Bloemen

Picture Dealer

Alison Fiske

Maeterlinck's girlfriend

Kenneth Goodare

Musician

Ian Flintoff

Stage Debussy

Paul Cameron

Musician

Elna Pearl

Vasnier daughter

Peter Matheson

Musician

Yvette Rees

Stage Madame Bardac

Jane Anderson

Musician

Audrey Searle

Madame Vasnier

Keith Smith

Reporter

Fred Taylor

Monsieur Vasnier

Emlyn Williams

ACTOR

P.G. Wodehouse

Self

Aaron Copland

Self

Mogens Wieth

ACTOR

Robert Ardrey

Self

Simon Raven

Self

Kingsley Amis

Self

Bernard Buffet

Self

Paddy Chayefsky

Self

Bernard Miles

Self

Paul Robeson

Self

Leonard Bernstein

Self

Jerome Robbins

Interviewee

Christopher Isherwood

Self

Georges Simenon

Self

Fritz Kortner

Self

William Golding

Self

Joan Littlewood

Self

T.H. White

Self

Frank Duncan

Narrator

Robert Graves

Self

Tyrone Guthrie

Self

Humphrey Burton

Commentator

Thomas Beecham

Self

Jacques Deval

Self

Yehudi Menuhin

Self

Gerry Raffles

Self

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris

Self

Gordon Jacob

Self

Jacques Lipchitz

Self

Wanda Landowska

Self

Len Williams

Instructor

Frank Duncan

Commentator

Arvo Boys

ACTOR

Davina Dundas

Singer guitarist

Alfred Wallis

Self

Evelyn Wilding

Cleaner

Thurston Dart

Self

Davy Graham

Self

Teresa Power

Spectator

Mr. Skinner

Instructor

Laurie Griffiths

Boy learning guitar

John Wiliams

Concert guitarist

Rod Steiger

Self

Harold Pinter

Self

John Mortimer

Self

Mary McCarthy

Self

W.H. Auden

Self

Shelagh Delaney

Self

Henry Moore

Self

Marie Rambert

Self

Rudolf Bing

Self

Edgar Mittelholzer

Self

George Lamming

Self

John Cranko

Self

Ian Bannen

Hamlet

Lotte Lenya

ACTOR

Katina Paxinou

Self

Harold Lang

Self - Acting Teacher

Peter Wood

Self = Interviewee

Annette Michelson

Reading Russian score

Miss Varnavides

Young Prokofiev

Joyce Rathbone

Music Teacher

Michael Shaw

Walk on

James Forty

ACTOR

Philip Jenkins

Hands playing piano

V.P. Gregoriy

Zhdanov

James Earl Jones

Prince of Morocco

George C. Scott

Shylock

Joseph Papp

Self

Peter O'Toole

Self

Michael Hordern

Preacher (The Sermon)

Kenneth Williams

Self

Alita Naughton

Model

Gillian Lynne

Self

Ernest Milton

Self

Lukas Foss

Self

Ben Shahn

Self

Hans Keller

Self

Frank McEwen

Self

Tortelier

Self

Robert Jacobsen

Self

Barry Humphries

Self

Evelyn Waugh

Self

Robert Rauschenberg

Self

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Self

Margaret Dale

Self

Joe Tilson

Self

Anthony Storr

Self

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Self

Norman Mailer

Self

Malcolm Muggeridge

Self

Don McCullin

Self

John Barbirolli

Self

Evelyn Rothwell

Self

Naum Gabo

Self

Barry Evans

Student (uncredited)

Ken Russell

Bit part (uncredited)

Janet Lynn

Bit part (uncredited)

Carmen Dene

Girl (uncredited)

Delia Wicks

Girl (uncredited)

Maurice Bush

Thug (uncredited)

Lance George

Extra (uncredited)

David Williscroft

Extra (uncredited)

Fran Browne

Extra (uncredited)

Victoria Russell

Chouchou (uncredited)

Pete Sinfield

Dancer (uncredited)

Peter Munt

Horse-handler (uncredited)

David Brewster

Extra at funeral (uncredited)

Kathy Fitzgibbon

Extra at funeral (uncredited)

Frank Sussman

Extra at funeral (uncredited)