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- Omnibus (1952–1961)
- TV Series | 55 min | Drama, History, Music
Omnibus (1952–1961)
TV Series
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55 min
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Drama, History, Music
Omnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.
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Plot summary
Directors
Writers
Aeschylus
(trilogy: Oresteia)
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James Agee
(novel)
(screenplay)
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Fred Allen
(play)
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Maxwell Anderson
(play)
(written by)
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Producers
Composers
Cinematographers
Editors
Casting Director
Production Designer
Status
Cast | + Add Cast |
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| Name | Episodes | Known for |
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Alistair Cooke
Self - Host / Narrator (segment "Requiem") / Self - commentary
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153
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Leonard Bernstein
Self / Self (segment "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony") / Self - Conductor (segment "Messiah") / Self - Conductor (segment "The Art of Conducting") / Self - Conductor (segment) / …
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11
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Joseph N. Welch
Self - Narrator / Self - Presenter (segment) / Self - Commentator (segment "The Trial of Lizzie Borden") / Self - Lawyer (segment "Boyhoods - Joseph N. Welch") / Self - Presenter (segment "One Nation") / Self - Presenter (segment "With Liberty and Justice for All")
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8
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Helen Hayes
(segment "Drug Store, Sunday Noon") / (segment "Irish Linen") / (segment "The Twelve Pound Look") / Bessie Arlington (segment "A Christmas Tie") / Bessie Arlington (segment "The Christmas Tie") / …
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8
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Martin Gabel
Narrator / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / …
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8
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James Daly
(segment "Henry Adams") / (segment "My Heart's in the Highlands") / (segment) / Colonel Billy Mitchell (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell") / General Robert E. Lee (segment) / …
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7
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Burgess Meredith
(segment "The Sea of Winslow Homer") / (segment "The Virtuous Island") / Avon Horsley Jr. (segment "A Christmas Tie") / Everyman (segment "Everyman") / Narrator (segment "Excursion House") / Self - Interviewer
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6
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Royal Dano
Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Mr. Lincoln")
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6
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Joanne Woodward
Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Mr. Lincoln")
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6
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Crahan Denton
Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Mr. Lincoln")
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6
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6
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Jessica Tandy
(segment "Minds over Manners") / (segment "The Better Half") / Blanche Du Bois (segment "Courtship") / Jackie (segment "Glory in the Flower") / Louisa Catherine Johnson (segment "John Quincy Adams") / Self - Reader (segment "Children's Books")
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6
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Hume Cronyn
(segment "Minds over Manners") / (segment "The Better Half") / Bartender (segment "Glory in the Flower") / Harold Mitchell (segment "Courtship") / John Quincy Adams (segment "John Quincy Adams") / Self - Reader (segment "Children's Books")
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6
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Bud Palmer
Commentator (segment "The Fastest Game of All") / Narrator (segment "Almost All about Horses") / Narrator (segment "Skull Session") / Self - Introduction (segment "Gymnastics") / Self - Introduction (segment "Sugar Ray Robinson Visits Stillman's Gym") / Self - Introduction (segment "The Harlem Globetrotters")
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6
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Cyril Ritchard
(segment "The Twelve Pound Look") / (segment "The Virtuous Island") / (segment "Three Sketches") / Don Andres / Sir Joseph Porter (segment)
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5
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Jonathan Harris
(segment "Let There Be Farce") / (segment "The Trial of Anne Boleyn") / Courcelles / Matey (segment)
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5
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Martyn Green
(segment "H.M.S. Pinafore") / (segment) / Judge (segment "Trial by Jury") / Ko-Ko (segment "The Mikado") / Lob (segment)
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5
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Harry Townes
(segment "One Nation Indivisible") / Edward Noyes (segment "The Great Forgery") / James Madison (segment "One Nation") / Woodrow Wilson / segment "The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio")
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5
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Bramwell Fletcher
(segment "One Nation") / Coll (segment "The Second Shepherds' Play") / Earl of Kent (segment) / Mr. Coade (segment)
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4
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Agnes de Mille
(segment "Three Maidens and the Devil") / Self (segment "Agnes DeMille's 'Rodeo' ") / Self - Dancer (segment "The Art of Choreography") / Self - Presenter (segment "The Art of Ballet")
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4
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Neva Patterson
Elizabeth (segment "The Sojourner") / Mrs. Coade (segment) / Mrs. Lansdowne / White Ghost (segment "The Last Night of Don Juan")
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4
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Carmen Mathews
(segment "A Jury of Her Peers") / (segment "John Quincy Adams") / (segment "The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl") / Self - Host
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4
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Everett Sloane
(segment "My Heart's in the Highlands") / (segment "The Trial of St. Joan") / (segment) / (segments "Nobody's Fool" and "Village Incident - India")
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4
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Eliot Noyes
Self (segment "Toys") / Self - Architect (segment "Balance II") / Self - Architect (segment "Balance") / Self - Reporter (segment "Grand Central")
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4
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Noel Leslie
(segment "The Lives of Henry Adams and Charles Francis Adams Jr.") / (segment "With Liberty and Justice for All") / Adm. Sims / Chaplain
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4
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Diana Adams
Mother (segment "The Fall River Legend") / Self / Self - Dancer (segment "The Art of Ballet") / Self - Dancer (segment "The Art of Choreography")
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4
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Christopher Plummer
(segment "The Trial of Lizzie Borden") / (segment) / Oedipus (segment "Oedipus, the King") / Thomas Mendip
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4
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Laurel Hurley
La Perichole / Musetta in 'La Boheme' / Self
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3
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David J. Stewart
(segment "My Heart's in the Highlands") / (segment "With Liberty and Justice for All") / Oswald (segment)
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3
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Chris Gampel
(segment "Uncle Tom's Cabin") / First Servant (segment)
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3
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LeRoi Operti
(segment "One Nation Indivisible") / Doctor (segment) / Nestor (segment)
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3
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William Saroyan
Narrator (segment "Famous America Boyhoods") / Narrator (segment "The Bad Men") / Self - Narrator
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3
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Mercer McLeod
(segment "The Royal Game") / Mr. Pickwick (segment "The Trial of Mr. Pickwick")
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3
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Richard Kiley
(segment "The Trial of Anne Boleyn") / Actor (segment "A Clean, Fresh Breeze") / The Prosecuting Attorney(segment "The Trial of Lizzie Borden")
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3
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John Kriza
Billy the Kid (segment "Billy the Kid") / Champion Roper (segment "Agnes DeMille's 'Rodeo' ") / Pastor (segment "The Fall River Legend")
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3
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Jenny Workman
Cowgirl (segment "Agnes DeMille's 'Rodeo' ") / Self - Dancer (segment "The Art of Ballet") / Self - Dancer (segment "The Art of Choreography")
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3
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Michael Redgrave
(segment "My Brother Henry") / Captain Dimitri Smimov (segment "The Bear") / Charles Marlow (segment)
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3
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Marian Seldes
(segment "Antigone") / (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / (segment "Mr. Lincoln")
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3
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Alexander Scourby
Ben Jonson (segment "The Trial of Ben Jonson") / El Indio (segment "Paso Doble") / Odysseus (segment)
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3
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Richard Purdy
(segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") / (segment "Mr. Lincoln")
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3
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Rex Thompson
Miles (segment "The Turn of the Screw") / Tredree (segment) / Valentin (segment "The Sojourner")
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3
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Brenda Lewis
Musetta (segment) / Rosalinde Eisenstein (segment "Die Fledermaus") / Self (Operatic Examples)
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3
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Margaret Hamilton
(segment "A Different Drummer") / Aunt Wilma (segment "Figgerin' of Aunt Wilma") / Mrs. Gifford (segment "The Trial of Lizzie Borden")
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3
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Berry Kroeger
(segment "A Lodging for the Night") / (segment "Androcles and the Lion") / Solicitor General
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3
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Carol Goodner
Jocasta (segment "Oedipus, the King") / Mrs. Bradley (segment "The Duchess and the Smugs") / Olivia Talbot (segment "The Nature of the Beast")
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3
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Daniel Ocko
(segment "The Fine Art of Murder") / (segment "The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl")
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3
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Jack Warden
(segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / (segment "Mr. Lincoln")
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3
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Darren McGavin
(segment "Jack Be Normal") / (segment "The Man in the Cool, Cool Moon") / (segment "The Virtuous Island")
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3
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Sal Mineo
Guard's Brother (segment "Salome") / Paco (segment "The Capital of the World" 2) / Senor Cortez (segment "Famous America Boyhoods")
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3
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Edward Binns
(segment "Jack Be Normal") / (segment "The Oyster and the Pearl") / Bitter ex-beau (segment "Glory in the Flower")
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3
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