
Filmography

Have I Got News for You
1990 · Self

Great Performances
1971 · Self

The South Bank Show
1978 · Self - Presenter, Executive Producer

The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007 · Self

An Audience with...
1978 · Self

TFI Friday
1996 · Actor

Parkinson
2004 · Self - Guest
The Garden Party
1998 · Actor

Comic Relief
1988 · Actor
The Lively Arts
1976 · Presenter

Executive Stress
1986 · Melvyn Bragg

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988 · Self
Plunder
1990 · Actor

Believe Nothing
2002 · Self

The Adventure of English
2003 · Actor
2nd House
1973 · Himself - Presenter, Himself - Host

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016 · Self - Editor and Presenter, South Bank Show

Bernard and the Genie
1991 · Himself
Reel History of Britain
2011 · Actor

The Who: The Kids Are Alright
1979 · Self

The Tall Guy
1989 · Himself
Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out
2009 · Narrator, Writer

Muse of Fire
2013 · Self

Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
2003 · Himself

Laurence Olivier: A Life
1982 · Self (Interviewer ), Editor

Norbert Smith: A Life
1989 · Interviewer

Sweet William
1980 · Self

Melvyn Bragg's Travels In Written Britain
2008 · Actor, Creator

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988 · Self

David Lean: A Life in Film
1985 · Narrator

The Most Dangerous Man in Tudor England
2013 · Himself - Presenter, Writer

The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper
1992 · Self - Presenter
An Artist's Story
1974 · Himself - Presenter

An Interview with Dennis Potter
1994 · Interviewer

Keppel Road: The Life and Music of the Bee Gees
1997 · Self

A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible
1989 · Actor

Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
1997 · Self/Narrator

Ingmar Bergman at 60
1978 · Host, Editor

Norbert Smith – a Life
TBA · Actor

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994 · Self

David Hockney: In Normandy
2023 · self

David Hockney: Joiner Photographs
1983 · Narrator, Editor

John Steinbeck: Voice of America
2011 · Host/Narrator

David Hockney: A Celebration
2023 · Self

Whose Doctor Who
1977 · Presenter

Bernardo Bertolucci and the Making of 'The Last Emperor'
1988 · Presenter
Cinema of Fire: Iranian Cinema
2002 · Himself (Presenter)

Afro-Cuban All-Stars at the Salon of Dreams
1998 · Self

David Hockney: In London
2023 · Self
Blur - The South Bank Show 1999
1999 · Self - Presenter
Portrait or Bust
1994 · Himself (uncredited)

J.M.W. Turner: Turner at the Tate
1987 · Presenter
Ermanno Olmi: The Roots of the Tree
1981 · Presenter, Editor

Hockney at the Tate
1988 · Self

Countertenors
1999 · Presenter
The Mystery Of Mary Magdalene
2013 · Self

R.E.M.
2002 · Presenter
Emir Kusturica
2000 · Himself (Presenter)

Vivienne Westwood
1990 · Self

Art Matters
2024 · Self

Francis Bacon
1985 · Actor

Roy Lichtenstein
1991 · Himself