Hollywood Greats (1977)

Name: Hollywood Greats
Genre: Documentary, History
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Jonathan Ross

Documentary · History

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.

IMDb rating: 7.6 (184 votes)
Seasons: 8
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Jul 3, 2026 · 8 seasons indexed

Cast

Jonathan Ross Self - Presenter

Seasons

Season 1 (1977)

5.34 avg 5 episodes 2.4 → 8.7 45 min avg

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Clark Gable	2.4	110
2	Errol Flynn	3.5	111
3	Spencer Tracy	7.6	106
4	Gary Cooper	4.5	108
5	Humphrey Bogart	8.7	121

Season 2 (1978)

6.64 avg 5 episodes 1.7 → 8.1 70 min avg

Slow burn

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Joan Crawford	1.7	147
2	Ronald Colman	8.8	107
3	Jean Harlow	6.2	87
4	Judy Garland	8.4	128
5	Charles Laughton	8.1	105

Season 3 (1979)

6.80 avg 3 episodes 6.1 → 8.6

u-shaped

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Edward G. Robinson	6.1	87
2	Groucho Marx	5.7	84
3	Charles Chaplin	8.6	87

Season 6 (1999)

6.75 avg 4 episodes 4.8 → 7.1

Front-loaded

Season 6 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Cary Grant	4.8	107
2	Bette Davis	9.7	159
3	Robert Mitchum	5.4	84
4	Katharine Hepburn	7.1	107

Season 8 (2002)

6.98 avg 4 episodes 7.4 → 5.9

Bad finale

Season 8 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Steve McQueen	7.4	103
2	Doris Day	6.7	83
3	Tony Curtis	7.9	107
4	Burt Lancaster	5.9	82

Season 10 (2004)

8.47 avg 3 episodes 8.3 → 8.7

Season 10 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Dustin Hoffman	8.3	106
2	Richard Harris	8.4	112
4	Anthony Hopkins	8.7	114

Season 11 (2005)

8.77 avg 3 episodes 8.8 → 8.3

Season 11 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
2	Lauren Bacall	8.8	117
3	Jane Fonda	9.2	111
4	David Niven	8.3	111

Season 12 (2006)

6.17 avg 3 episodes 2.6 → 9.0 40 min avg

Season 12 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Harrison Ford	2.6	109
2	Jack Lemmon	6.9	106
3	Marlon Brando	9.0	110

Hollywood Greats (1977)

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