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

1 episode

Himself – Red Army

Frank Manson

1 episode

Himself – Lieutenant, US Navy

Naoki Hoshino

1 episode

Himself – Cabinet Minister

André Beaufre

1 episode

Himself – French High Command (archive footage)

McGeorge Bundy

1 episode

Himself – Stimson’s Biographer

Stephen Ambrose

1 episode

Himself – Historian

John Barne

1 episode

Himself – 6th Guards Arnoured Brigade

Robert Boothby

1 episode

Himself – Conservative MP

Max Aitken

1 episode

Himself – RAF Squadron Leader 1940

Lewis Bush

1 episode

Himself – Writer

George Ball

1 episode

Himself – Roosevelt Administration

Andrey Yeryomenko

1 episode

Himself (archive footage)

Edward Butler

1 episode

Himself – Ex Chief Petty Officer

Ivan Chistyakov

1 episode

Himself – Commander, 6th Guard Army

Hans Brunswig

1 episode

Himself – Hamburg Fire Officer

Bill Becket

1 episode

Himself – Sherwood Foresters

Walter Boller

1 episode

Himself – Major, ROAC

William Beveridge

1 episode

Himself – Economist / Socialist (archive footage)

Hertha Beese

1 episode

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

1 episode

Himself

Eberhard Bethge

1 episode

Himself – Prisoner of the Gestapo

Richard Böch

1 episode

Himself – SS Lance Corporal

Roy Voris

1 episode

Himself – Lieutenant, US Navy

Maurice Chevalier

1 episode

Himself – Entertainer

James Byrnes

1 episode

Himself – Truman’s Secretary of State

Charles Bohlen

1 episode

Himself – US State Department 1945

Stanley Drinkwater

1 episode

Himself

John Russell

1 episode

Himself – British Embassy, Moscow 1941

George Elliott

1 episode

Himself – Radar Unit Plotter

Vannevar Bush

1 episode

Himself – Adviser to Roosevelt

Paola Colacicchi

1 episode

Himself – Italian Army

Peter Cremer

1 episode

Himself – Capt of U-333

Vsevolod Klokov

1 episode

Himself – Ukrainian Partisan

John Corcoran

1 episode

Himself – Pilot

Mark W Clark

1 episode

Himself – Commander, US 5th Army

Sydney Bowers

1 episode

Himself – Sergeant, RAF

Mrs Gwen Bunt

1 episode

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

1 episode

Himself – ‘Daily Telegraph,’ Berlin

J F Bubberman-Boer

1 episode

Herself

Blondi

1 episode

Hitler’s Dog (archive footage)

Paul Schmidt

1 episode

Himself – Hitler’s Interpreter

Masataka Chihaya

1 episode

Himself – Japanese Navy

Franz Halder

1 episode

Himself – Hitler’s Chief of Staff (archive footage)

Ivan Ludnikov

1 episode

Himself – Corps Commander

Ira C Eaker

1 episode

Himself – Commanding General US Eighth Air Force

Walter Davis

1 episode

Himself – Sherwood Foresters

Leonard Brown

1 episode

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

1 episode

Himself

Brian Horrocks

1 episode

Himself – 30 Corps Commander

C JR Duffin

1 episode

Himself – 6th Guards Armoured Bdge

Wilhelm Hoettl

1 episode

Himself – SS Major

Chester W Nimitz

1 episode

Himself – C-in-C, US Pacific Fleet (archive footage)

Edward Spears

1 episode

Himself

William Edward Rawlings Eyton-Jones

1 episode

Himself – SS Ben Vrachie

Olga Rybakova

1 episode

Herself – Leningrad Housewife

Michael Calvert

1 episode

Himself – Chindit Commander

Otto John

1 episode

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

1 episode

Himself – Law Student

Louis De Jong

1 episode

Himself

Willy Feldheim

1 episode

Himself

Avraham Kochavi

1 episode

Himself – Polish Jew

Mrs Yonaha

1 episode

Herself – Student

Charles Trenet

1 episode

Himself – Entertainer

Alger Hiss

1 episode

Himself – State Department 1945

Ursula Gray

1 episode

Herself – German Refugee, 1945

J Glenn Gray

1 episode

Himself – Author ‘The Warriors’

Lucy Faithfull

1 episode

Herself – Children’s Care Organiser

Charles Gardner

1 episode

Himself – BBC Reporter

Grigori Tokaty

1 episode

Himself – Stalin Critic

Norman Corwin

1 episode

Himself – Radio Commentator

Friedrich Paulus

1 episode

Himself – Commander, 6th Army Group (archive footage)

Thomas Finch

1 episode

Hiimself – Chief Officer, ‘SS San Emiliano’

Nikolai Volkov

1 episode

Himself – Factory Worker

Arthur Harris

1 episode

Himself – Marshal of the RAF 1972

Gilbert Collins

1 episode

Himself – Gunner, 14th Army

Stafford Cripps

1 episode

Himself – Ambassador to Russia 1940-1942 (archive footage)

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

1 episode

Himself – Social Democrat

Petra Eldering

1 episode

Herself

Ursula Grey

1 episode

Herself – Dresden Civilian

Primo Levi

1 episode

Himself – Italian Jew

Bernard Kops

1 episode

Himself – Child Evacuee

Bertie Good

1 episode

Himself – Steward, ‘MV Royal Daffodil’

James Doolittle

1 episode

Himself – B-25 Raid on Japan

Richard O’Connor

1 episode

Himself – Commander, Western Desert Force

Mikhail Shumilov

1 episode

Himself – Commander, 7th Guards Army (archive footage)

Peter Gretton

1 episode

Himself – Escort Group Commander

Wilhelm Herget

1 episode

Himself – Night Fighter Pilot

Drew Middleton

1 episode

Himself

Neville G Hogan

1 episode

Himself – Capt, 14th Army

Tom Driberg

1 episode

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

1 episode

Himself – Printer’s Son

Jan Kilkens

1 episode

Himself

Dov Paisikovic

1 episode

Himself – Hungarian Jew

Joe Minogue

1 episode

Himself

Martin Lindsay

1 episode

Himself – British Army Officer

Ray Holmes

1 episode

Himself – RAF Sergeant Pilot 1940

Ion Antonescu

1 episode

Himself – Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (archive footage)

Ian Mutsu

1 episode

Himself – Newsman

Nikolay Voronov

1 episode

Himself – Interrogated Paulus when Surrendering (archive footage)

Raymond Hart

1 episode

Himself – ‘HMS Vidette’

Leon Johnson

1 episode

Himself – Group Commander

Urikuro Honda

1 episode

Himself – Japanese Imperial Army

Goronwy Rees

1 episode

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

1 episode

Herself – Farmer’s Daughter

Piet Nak

1 episode

Himself – Streetcleaner

Heinz Linge

1 episode

Himself – Hitler’s Valet

Rudolf Vrba

1 episode

Himself – Czechoslovak Jew

Gordon Waterfield

1 episode

Himself – War Correspondent

Yoshio Kodama

1 episode

Himself – Nationalist Politician

William Robertson

1 episode

Himself – US Army 1945

Herman Pheffer

1 episode

Himself – Disabled US Veteran

John Simon

1 episode

Himself – Chancellor of the Exchequer (archive footage)

John McBeath

1 episode

Himself – Commanding ‘HMS Venomous’

Masatake Okumiya

1 episode

Himself – Pilot

John Kenneth Galbraith

1 episode

Himself – Roosevelt Administration

Claude Auchinleck

1 episode

Himself – C-in-C Middle East Command 1941-42 (archive footage)

Kurt Zeitzler

1 episode

Himself – Hitler’s Chief of Staff (archive footage)

Otto Kretschmer

1 episode

Himself – Capt of U-99

Andrei Zhdanov

1 episode

Himself – Communist Politician (archive footage)

Vera Lynn

1 episode

Herself – Morale Booster

Trevor Evans

1 episode

Himself

Otto Ernst Remer

1 episode

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

1 episode

Himself – Army Officer

Jetty Paerl

1 episode

Herself

Karl Wolff

1 episode

Himself – SS General

Princess Margaret

1 episode

Herself – Buckingham Palace on balcony 1945 (archive footage)

Jimmy Thomas

1 episode

Himself – Royal Navy

Charles Woodhouse

1 episode

Himself – Capt HMS Ajax

Hartwig Looks

1 episode

Himself – Capt of U-264

Hamish Mahaddie

1 episode

Himself – RAF Bomber Command Pathfinder

Michael Foot

1 episode

Himself – Acting Editor, Evening Standard 1942

Richard Schultze-Kossens

1 episode

Himself – Commander, SS Academy

J M Stagg

1 episode

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

1 episode

Himself – Jewish Stockbroker

Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands

1 episode

Himself – The Prince of the Netherlands

Anna Nikulina

1 episode

Herself – Red Army

Rivka Yosilevska

1 episode

Herself – Polish Jew

Hartley Shawcross

1 episode

Himself – Nuremberg Prosecuter 1945

Neville Chamberlain

1 episode

Himself – PM of the UK

Robert Wright

1 episode

Himself – Dowding’s Personal Assistant

King Boris III

1 episode

Himself – Bulgaria (archive footage)

Alan Cunningham

1 episode

Himself – Commander 8th Army 1941 (archive footage)

Wilfred Oulton

1 episode

Himself – Coastal Command

William Reid

1 episode

Himself

Harold Alexander

1 episode

Himself – Commander 15th Army Group (archive footage)

David Hewetson

1 episode

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

1 episode

Himself

J B Roodbol

1 episode

Himself

Felix Putterman

1 episode

Himself – US Artilleryman

Adolf Eichmann

1 episode

Himself – SS-Final Solution Administrator (archive footage)

Duke of Windsor

1 episode

Himself (archive footage)

J Robert Oppenheimer

1 episode

Himself (archive footage)

Willy Brandt

1 episode

Himself – Chancellor of West Germany 1969-74 (archive footage)

King Michael

1 episode

Himself – Romania (archive footage)

Ichiji Sugita

1 episode

Himself – General Staff

Gilbert Roberts

1 episode

Himself – Western Approaches Staff

John Rogan

1 episode

Himself – Navigator / Bombardier

Alan Brooke

1 episode

Himself – Chief of the Imperial General Staff (archive footage)

George Hodgkinson

1 episode

Himself – Chairman, Coventry War Emergency Committee

Marlene Tucking

1 episode

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

1 episode

Herself

Yelena Reveshkaya

1 episode

Herself – Red Army Interpreter

Maurice Gamelin

1 episode

Himself – C-in-C, Maginot Line (archive footage)

Hisatsune Sakomizu

1 episode

Himself – Cabinet Secretary 1945

Douglas Spencer

1 episode

Himself – UK Occupation Force 1945

Édouard Daladier

1 episode

Himself – Prime Minister of France 1938-40 (archive footage)

Tomohiko Ushiba

1 episode

Himself – Prime Minister’s Private Secretary

Isamu Noguchi

1 episode

Himself – Japanese-American 1941

Robert Sherwood

1 episode

Himself – ‘HMS Bluebell’

Werner Schroer

1 episode

Himself – Day Fighter Leader

Freddie Tomkins

1 episode

Himself – Sergeant, 14th Army

Cecil King

1 episode

Himself – Director, Daily Mirror

Martin Bormann

1 episode

Himself – Personal Secretary to the Führer (archive footage)

Heinrich Himmler

2 episodes

Himself – Reichsführer-SS

Gracie Fields

2 episodes

Herself – Entertainer

R M van der Veen

1 episode

Himself

Isoroku Yamamoto

1 episode

Himself – Funeral Procession in Japan 1943 (archive footage)

Henri Giraud

1 episode

Himself – Commander, French 9th Army (archive footage)

Charles W Sweeney

1 episode

Himself – Hiroshima & Nagasaki Pilot

Hugh Dowding

1 episode

Himself – RAF Fighter Command 1936-40 (archive footage)

Paul Prince

1 episode

Himself – Yugoslavia Acting Head of State (archive footage)

Takeo Yoshikawa

1 episode

Himself – Spy at Pearl Harbor

Paul Samuelson

1 episode

Himself – Roosevelt Administration

Neil Ritchie

1 episode

Himself – Commander 8th Army 1941-42 (archive footage)

Rodney Stone

1 episode

Himself – ‘SS Gharinda’

William Slim

1 episode

Himself – Commander, 14th Army (archive footage)

Frederick Marquis

1 episode

Himself – Minister of Food 1940-1943 (archive footage)

Roland Freisler

1 episode

Himself – Bomb Plot Judge (archive footage)

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

1 episode

Himself

John Seney

1 episode

Himself – US Paratrooper

Heinz Guderian

1 episode

Himself – German Colonel (archive footage)

Paul Tibbets

1 episode

Himself – Hiroshima Pilot

Richard Tregaskis

1 episode

Himself – War Correspondent

James Stewart

1 episode

Himself – Squadron Commander

Albert Kesselring

1 episode

Himself – Commander German Forces in Italy (archive footage)

Orde Wingate

1 episode

Himself – British General, Chindit Campaigns (archive footage)

Bernard Miles

1 episode

Himself (archive footage)

Archibald Wavell

2 episodes

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

Gerben Wagenar

1 episode

Himself

Edison Uno

1 episode

Himself – Japanese-American 1941

Lore Thran

1 episode

Himself – Cologne Hospital Nurse

R B Woudenber

1 episode

Himself

Carola Stern

1 episode

Herself – German Citizen

Philippe Pétain

1 episode

Himself – Marshal of France (archive footage)

Rudolf Hess

1 episode

Himself – Nuremberg Trial Defendant 1945 (archive footage)

Yosuke Matsuoka

1 episode

Himself – Foreign Minister of Japan (archive footage)

Sewell Avery

1 episode

Himself – Businessman (archive footage)

Günther Prien

1 episode

Himself – Capt of U-47 (archive footage)

Ben Witter

1 episode

Himself – Hamburg Journalist

Bill Roberts

1 episode

Himself – Betteshanger Miner

Anton Mussert

1 episode

Himself – NSB Leader (archive footage)

Eva Braun

1 episode

Herself – Hitler’s Wife (archive footage)

Paul Reynaud

1 episode

Himself – Prime Minister of France 1940 (archive footage)

W K Wellington Koo

1 episode

Himself – United Nations signatore one (archive footage)

Arthur Percival

1 episode

Himself – Commonwealth General, Singapore (archive footage)

Joachim Schepke

1 episode

Himself – Capt of U-100 (archive footage)

Emanuel Shinwell

1 episode

Himself – Minister of Fuel & Power (archive footage)

Arthur Seyß-Inquart

1 episode

Himself – Reich Commissioner of Holland (archive footage)

Maxime Weygand

1 episode

Himself – C-in-C, French Army (archive footage)

Harry Hopkins

1 episode

Himself – Roosevelt’s Adviser (archive footage)

Bing Crosby

1 episode

Himself (archive footage)

Frederic John Walker

1 episode

Himself – Anti-Submarine Warfare Commander (archive footage)

Mrs Herma Wolfgang

1 episode

Herself – Resident Alien

Fritz Todt

1 episode

Himself – Minister of Munitions (archive footage)

Olivia de Havilland

1 episode

Herself (archive footage)

Harry S Truman

1 episode

Himself – US President (archive footage)

Tomoyuki Yamashita

1 episode

Himself – Japanese General (archive footage)

Ernest Bevin

1 episode

Himself – British statesman (archive footage)

Joachim von Ribbentrop

1 episode

Himself – Nuremberg Trial Defendant 1945 (archive footage)

Charles A Lindbergh

1 episode

Himself (archive footage)

Mamoru Shigemitsu

1 episode

Himself – Foreign Minister (archive footage)

Tyrone Power

1 episode

Himself (archive footage)

Henry L Stimson

1 episode

Himself – US Secretary of War 1945 (archive footage)

Frank Sinatra

1 episode

Himself (archive footage)

Tommy Handley

1 episode

Radio Characters (archive footage)