The World at War

Laurence Olivier

26 episodes

Himself – Narrator

Averell Harriman

5 episodes

Himself – Roosevelt’s Roving Ambassador / Himself – Roosevelt’s Special Representative in Britain / Himself – US Ambassador to Moscow 1945 / Himself – US Ambassador to Russia 1943-46 / Himself – US Ambassador to Russia 1945

J Lawton Collins

3 episodes

Himself / Himself – Commanding General, 25th Infantry Division at Guadalcanal / Himself – US VII Corps Commander

Christabel Bielenberg

2 episodes

Herself – Married to German / Herself – Wife of German

Rita Boas-Koopman

2 episodes

Herself / Herself – Dutch Jew

David Belchem

2 episodes

Himself / Himself – Western Desert Force

Vladimir Antonov

Himself – Red Army

Frank Manson

Himself – Lieutenant, US Navy

Naoki Hoshino

Himself – Cabinet Minister

André Beaufre

Himself – French High Command

McGeorge Bundy

Himself – Stimson’s Biographer

Stephen Ambrose

Himself – Historian

John Barne

Himself – 6th Guards Arnoured Brigade

Robert Boothby

Himself – Conservative MP

Max Aitken

Himself – RAF Squadron Leader 1940

Lewis Bush

Himself – Writer

George Ball

Himself – Roosevelt Administration

Andrey Yeryomenko

Himself

Edward Butler

Himself – Ex Chief Petty Officer

Ivan Chistyakov

Himself – Commander, 6th Guard Army

Hans Brunswig

Himself – Hamburg Fire Officer

Bill Becket

Himself – Sherwood Foresters

Walter Boller

Himself – Major, ROAC

William Beveridge

Himself – Economist / Socialist

Hertha Beese

Herself – Berlin Housewife

Winston Churchill

11 episodes

Himself / Himself – Buckingham Palace on balcony 1945 / Himself – First Lord of the Admiralty / Himself – PM of the UK

Hermann Göring

6 episodes

Himself – C-in-C, Luftwaffe / Himself – Nuremberg Trial Defendant 1945 / Himself – President of the Reichstag

Toshikazu Kase

3 episodes

Himself – Cabinet Secretariat / Himself – Foreign Ministry 1945 / Himself – Matsuoka’s Private Secretary

Emmi Bonhoeffer

2 episodes

Herself – Berlin Housewife / Herself – Housewife

Francis de Guingand

2 episodes

Himself – Military Intelligence, Cairo / Montgomery’s Chief of Staff / Himself – Montgomery’s Chief of Staff

R A Butler

2 episodes

Himself – Foreign Affairs / Himself – Minister of Education

J R Colville

2 episodes

Himself – Chamberlain’s Private Secretary / Himself – Churchill’s Private Secretary

Sieuwert Bruins Slot

Himself

Eberhard Bethge

Himself – Prisoner of the Gestapo

Richard Böch

Himself – SS Lance Corporal

Roy Voris

Himself – Lieutenant, US Navy

Maurice Chevalier

Himself – Entertainer

James Byrnes

Himself – Truman’s Secretary of State

Charles Bohlen

Himself – US State Department 1945

Stanley Drinkwater

Himself

John Russell

Himself – British Embassy, Moscow 1941

George Elliott

Himself – Radar Unit Plotter

Vannevar Bush

Himself – Adviser to Roosevelt

Paola Colacicchi

Himself – Italian Army

Peter Cremer

Himself – Capt of U-333

Vsevolod Klokov

Himself – Ukrainian Partisan

John Corcoran

Himself – Pilot

Mark W Clark

Himself – Commander, US 5th Army

Sydney Bowers

Himself – Sergeant, RAF

Mrs Gwen Bunt

Herself – Plymouth Resident

Anthony Eden

5 episodes

Himself – British Foreign Secretary / Himself – Foreign Affairs 1945 / Himself – Foreign Secretary / Himself – War Cabinet 1940-45 / Himself – War Minister 1940 / Foreign Secretary 1940

Douglas MacArthur

3 episodes

Himself – Allied Commander at Surrender Ceremony / Himself – Leader of America’s Occupation of Japan / Himself – Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area

Lawrence Durrell

3 episodes

Himself / Himself – British Foreign Service / Himself – British Press Officer, Cairo

Teruo Okada

2 episodes

Himself / Himself – Japanese Imperial Army

Karl Dönitz

2 episodes

Himself – Chief of the Navy / Himself – Last Leader of the Third Reich

Lord Chandos

2 episodes

Himself / Himself – War Cabinet 1942-45

Mitsuo Fuchida

2 episodes

Himself – Aerial Commander / Himself – Led Pearl Harbor Attack

Hugh Greene

Himself – ‘Daily Telegraph,’ Berlin

J F Bubberman-Boer

Herself

Blondi

Hitler’s Dog

Paul Schmidt

Himself – Hitler’s Interpreter

Masataka Chihaya

Himself – Japanese Navy

Franz Halder

Himself – Hitler’s Chief of Staff

Ivan Ludnikov

Himself – Corps Commander

Ira C Eaker

Himself – Commanding General US Eighth Air Force

Walter Davis

Himself – Sherwood Foresters

Leonard Brown

Himself – Private, 14th Army

Adolf Hitler

11 episodes

Himself -Führer / Himself – Führer

Albert Speer

5 episodes

Himself / Himself – Hitler’s Armaments Minister / Himself – Minister of Armaments / Himself – Minister of Armaments / War Production

Charles de Gaulle

3 episodes

Himself / Himself – Leader of the Free French

Hans Kehrl

2 episodes

Himself – Ministry of Economics 1938-43 / Ministry of Armaments 1943-45 / Himself – Nazi Businessman

Yuzuru Sanematsu

2 episodes

Himself – Commander Naval Intelligence / Himself – Naval Intelligence

Noble Frankland

2 episodes

Himself – Director, Imperial War Museum / Himself – Historian

Adolf Galland

2 episodes

Himself – Director General of Fighters / Himself – Luftwaffe Squadron Leader 1940 / Luftwaffe Wing Commander 1941

Minoru Genda

2 episodes

Himself – Planned Midway Invasion / Himself – Planned Pearl Harbor Attack

Allan Francis Harding

2 episodes

Himself – Alexander’s Chief of Staff / Himself – Commander, 7th Armoured Division

Eddy Christiani

Himself

Brian Horrocks

Himself – 30 Corps Commander

C JR Duffin

Himself – 6th Guards Armoured Bdge

Wilhelm Hoettl

Himself – SS Major

Chester W Nimitz

Himself – C-in-C, US Pacific Fleet

Edward Spears

Himself

William Edward Rawlings Eyton-Jones

Himself – SS Ben Vrachie

Olga Rybakova

Herself – Leningrad Housewife

Michael Calvert

Himself – Chindit Commander

Otto John

Himself – Member of Resistance

Kenneth Strong

2 episodes

Himself – Eisenhower’s Intelligence Chief

Traudl Junge

2 episodes

Herself – Hitler’s Secretary / Herself – Secretary to Hitler 1943-45

Dwight D Eisenhower

2 episodes

Himself

Bill Mauldin

2 episodes

Himself – Cartoonist, ‘Stars and Stripes’

Georg Konrad Morgen

Himself – Law Student

Louis De Jong

Himself

Willy Feldheim

Himself

Avraham Kochavi

Himself – Polish Jew

Mrs Yonaha

Herself – Student

Charles Trenet

Himself – Entertainer

Alger Hiss

Himself – State Department 1945

Ursula Gray

Herself – German Refugee, 1945

J Glenn Gray

Himself – Author ‘The Warriors’

Lucy Faithfull

Herself – Children’s Care Organiser

Charles Gardner

Himself – BBC Reporter

Grigori Tokaty

Himself – Stalin Critic

Norman Corwin

Himself – Radio Commentator

Friedrich Paulus

Himself – Commander, 6th Army Group

Thomas Finch

Hiimself – Chief Officer, ‘SS San Emiliano’

Nikolai Volkov

Himself – Factory Worker

Arthur Harris

Himself – Marshal of the RAF 1972

Gilbert Collins

Himself – Gunner, 14th Army

Stafford Cripps

Himself – Ambassador to Russia 1940-1942

Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

3 episodes

Himself – War Correspondent

Vyacheslav Molotov

3 episodes

Himself – Foreign Minister

Louis Mountbatten

3 episodes

Himself / Himself – Supreme Allied Commander SEAC / Himself – Supreme Commander, SEAsia

Hasso von Manteuffel

2 episodes

Himself – German Panzer Command / Himself – German Panzer Commander

Walter Warlimont

2 episodes

Himself – German High Command

Koichi Kido

2 episodes

Himself – Emperor’s Chief Adviser / Himself – Lord Privy Seal 1945

Werner Pusch

Himself – Social Democrat

Petra Eldering

Herself

Ursula Grey

Herself – Dresden Civilian

Primo Levi

Himself – Italian Jew

Bernard Kops

Himself – Child Evacuee

Bertie Good

Himself – Steward, ‘MV Royal Daffodil’

James Doolittle

Himself – B-25 Raid on Japan

Richard O’Connor

Himself – Commander, Western Desert Force

Mikhail Shumilov

Himself – Commander, 7th Guards Army

Peter Gretton

Himself – Escort Group Commander

Wilhelm Herget

Himself – Night Fighter Pilot

Drew Middleton

Himself

Neville G Hogan

Himself – Capt, 14th Army

Tom Driberg

Himself

Joseph Stalin

6 episodes

Himself – General Secretary / Himself – Secretary General

Siegfried Westphal

4 episodes

Himself – Afika Korps, Rommel’s Chief of Staff / Himself – Chief of Staff, German Armies in the West / Himself – Kesselring’s Chief of Staff / Himself – Staff Officer Western Front

Hirohito

3 episodes

Himself – Emperor of Japan

Friedrich Luft

2 episodes

Himself / Himself – Berliner

Heinz Reinheimer

Himself – Printer’s Son

Jan Kilkens

Himself

Dov Paisikovic

Himself – Hungarian Jew

Joe Minogue

Himself

Martin Lindsay

Himself – British Army Officer

Ray Holmes

Himself – RAF Sergeant Pilot 1940

Ion Antonescu

Himself – Prime Minister of Yugoslavia

Ian Mutsu

Himself – Newsman

Nikolay Voronov

Himself – Interrogated Paulus when Surrendering

Raymond Hart

Himself – ‘HMS Vidette’

Leon Johnson

Himself – Group Commander

Urikuro Honda

Himself – Japanese Imperial Army

Goronwy Rees

Himself

Franklin D Roosevelt

4 episodes

Himself / Himself – US President

King George VI

2 episodes

Himself – Buckingham Palace on balcony 1945 / Himself – His Highness

Curtis LeMay

2 episodes

Himself / Himself – Divisional Commander

Heipke Remer

Herself – Farmer’s Daughter

Piet Nak

Himself – Streetcleaner

Heinz Linge

Himself – Hitler’s Valet

Rudolf Vrba

Himself – Czechoslovak Jew

Gordon Waterfield

Himself – War Correspondent

Yoshio Kodama

Himself – Nationalist Politician

William Robertson

Himself – US Army 1945

Herman Pheffer

Himself – Disabled US Veteran

John Simon

Himself – Chancellor of the Exchequer

John McBeath

Himself – Commanding ‘HMS Venomous’

Masatake Okumiya

Himself – Pilot

John Kenneth Galbraith

Himself – Roosevelt Administration

Claude Auchinleck

Himself – C-in-C Middle East Command 1941-42

Kurt Zeitzler

Himself – Hitler’s Chief of Staff

Otto Kretschmer

Himself – Capt of U-99

Andrei Zhdanov

Himself – Communist Politician

Vera Lynn

Herself – Morale Booster

Trevor Evans

Himself

Otto Ernst Remer

Himself – German Army Officer

Christa Ronke

2 episodes

Herself – Berliner / Herself – Berliner, 1945

J B Priestley

2 episodes

Himself – Broadcaster / Himself – Broadcaster / Novelist

Georgi Zhukov

2 episodes

Himself – Marshal / Himself – Red Army General

Ewald von Kleist

Himself – Army Officer

Jetty Paerl

Herself

Karl Wolff

Himself – SS General

Princess Margaret

Herself – Buckingham Palace on balcony 1945

Jimmy Thomas

Himself – Royal Navy

Charles Woodhouse

Himself – Capt HMS Ajax

Hartwig Looks

Himself – Capt of U-264

Hamish Mahaddie

Himself – RAF Bomber Command Pathfinder

Michael Foot

Himself – Acting Editor, Evening Standard 1942

Richard Schultze-Kossens

Himself – Commander, SS Academy

J M Stagg

Himself

Queen Elizabeth II

2 episodes

Herself / Herself – Buckingham Palace on balcony 1945

John J McCloy

2 episodes

Himself – Assistant Secretary of War 1945 / Himself – Roosevelt’s Assistant Secretary of War

Kay Summersby

2 episodes

Herself – Eisenhower’s Driver / Herself – US Army 1945

J G Smyth

2 episodes

Himself – 17th Div, Burma / Himself – 17th Indian Infantry Division, Malaya

Siegmund Weltlinger

Himself – Jewish Stockbroker

Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands

Himself – The Prince of the Netherlands

Anna Nikulina

Herself – Red Army

Rivka Yosilevska

Herself – Polish Jew

Hartley Shawcross

Himself – Nuremberg Prosecuter 1945

Neville Chamberlain

Himself – PM of the UK

Robert Wright

Himself – Dowding’s Personal Assistant

King Boris III

Himself – Bulgaria

Alan Cunningham

Himself – Commander 8th Army 1941

Wilfred Oulton

Himself – Coastal Command

William Reid

Himself

Harold Alexander

Himself – Commander 15th Army Group

David Hewetson

Himself – Bevin Boy 1943-1947

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

2 episodes

Herself – Buckingham Palace on balcony 1945 / Herself – Her Highness

Gerd von Rundstedt

2 episodes

Himself

Lord Beaverbrook

2 episodes

Himself – Minister of Aircraft Production / Himself – Minister of War Production

Bernard L Montgomery

2 episodes

Himself / Himself – Commander 8th Army

Edward Woods

Himself

J B Roodbol

Himself

Felix Putterman

Himself – US Artilleryman

Adolf Eichmann

Himself – SS-Final Solution Administrator

Duke of Windsor

Himself

J Robert Oppenheimer

Himself

Willy Brandt

Himself – Chancellor of West Germany 1969-74

King Michael

Himself – Romania

Ichiji Sugita

Himself – General Staff

Gilbert Roberts

Himself – Western Approaches Staff

John Rogan

Himself – Navigator / Bombardier

Alan Brooke

Himself – Chief of the Imperial General Staff

George Hodgkinson

Himself – Chairman, Coventry War Emergency Committee

Marlene Tucking

Herself

Hideki Tojo

2 episodes

Himself – Prime Minister / Himself – Prime Minister of Japan

Bob Hope

2 episodes

Himself

Benito Mussolini

2 episodes

Himself – Former Prime Minister / Himself – Prime Minister of Italy

Florrie Rost van Tonningen

Herself

Yelena Reveshkaya

Herself – Red Army Interpreter

Maurice Gamelin

Himself – C-in-C, Maginot Line

Hisatsune Sakomizu

Himself – Cabinet Secretary 1945

Douglas Spencer

Himself – UK Occupation Force 1945

Édouard Daladier

Himself – Prime Minister of France 1938-40

Tomohiko Ushiba

Himself – Prime Minister’s Private Secretary

Isamu Noguchi

Himself – Japanese-American 1941

Robert Sherwood

Himself – ‘HMS Bluebell’

Werner Schroer

Himself – Day Fighter Leader

Freddie Tomkins

Himself – Sergeant, 14th Army

Cecil King

Himself – Director, Daily Mirror

Martin Bormann

Himself – Personal Secretary to the Führer

Heinrich Himmler

2 episodes

Himself – Reichsführer-SS

Gracie Fields

2 episodes

Herself – Entertainer

R M van der Veen

Himself

Isoroku Yamamoto

Himself – Funeral Procession in Japan 1943

Henri Giraud

Himself – Commander, French 9th Army

Charles W Sweeney

Himself – Hiroshima & Nagasaki Pilot

Hugh Dowding

Himself – RAF Fighter Command 1936-40

Paul Prince

Himself – Yugoslavia Acting Head of State

Takeo Yoshikawa

Himself – Spy at Pearl Harbor

Paul Samuelson

Himself – Roosevelt Administration

Neil Ritchie

Himself – Commander 8th Army 1941-42

Rodney Stone

Himself – ‘SS Gharinda’

William Slim

Himself – Commander, 14th Army

Frederick Marquis

Himself – Minister of Food 1940-1943

Roland Freisler

Himself – Bomb Plot Judge

George Formby

2 episodes

Himself – Entertainer

Erwin Rommel

2 episodes

Himself / Himself – Commander, Afrika Korps

Joseph Goebbels

2 episodes

Himself – Propaganda Minister

T van Ralte

Himself

John Seney

Himself – US Paratrooper

Heinz Guderian

Himself – German Colonel

Paul Tibbets

Himself – Hiroshima Pilot

Richard Tregaskis

Himself – War Correspondent

James Stewart

Himself – Squadron Commander

Albert Kesselring

Himself – Commander German Forces in Italy

Orde Wingate

Himself – British General, Chindit Campaigns

Bernard Miles

Himself

Archibald Wavell

2 episodes

Himself – C-in-C Middle East Command 1940-41 / Himself – Middle East Command

Gerben Wagenar

Himself

Edison Uno

Himself – Japanese-American 1941

Lore Thran

Himself – Cologne Hospital Nurse

R B Woudenber

Himself

Carola Stern

Herself – German Citizen

Philippe Pétain

Himself – Marshal of France

Rudolf Hess

Himself – Nuremberg Trial Defendant 1945

Yosuke Matsuoka

Himself – Foreign Minister of Japan

Sewell Avery

Himself – Businessman

Günther Prien

Himself – Capt of U-47

Ben Witter

Himself – Hamburg Journalist

Bill Roberts

Himself – Betteshanger Miner

Anton Mussert

Himself – NSB Leader

Eva Braun

Herself – Hitler’s Wife

Paul Reynaud

Himself – Prime Minister of France 1940

W K Wellington Koo

Himself – United Nations signatore one

Arthur Percival

Himself – Commonwealth General, Singapore

Joachim Schepke

Himself – Capt of U-100

Emanuel Shinwell

Himself – Minister of Fuel & Power

Arthur Seyß-Inquart

Himself – Reich Commissioner of Holland

Maxime Weygand

Himself – C-in-C, French Army

Harry Hopkins

Himself – Roosevelt’s Adviser

Bing Crosby

Himself

Frederic John Walker

Himself – Anti-Submarine Warfare Commander

Mrs Herma Wolfgang

Herself – Resident Alien

Fritz Todt

Himself – Minister of Munitions

Olivia de Havilland

Herself

Harry S Truman

Himself – US President

Tomoyuki Yamashita

Himself – Japanese General

Ernest Bevin

Himself – British statesman

Joachim von Ribbentrop

Himself – Nuremberg Trial Defendant 1945

Charles A Lindbergh

Himself

Mamoru Shigemitsu

Himself – Foreign Minister

Tyrone Power

Himself

Henry L Stimson

Himself – US Secretary of War 1945

Frank Sinatra

Himself

Tommy Handley

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