Portrait or Bust

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Portrait or Bust

•1994

Key Details

Release StatusReleased

Release Date1994-04-04

Languageen

Runtime50m

Production

BBC

0.0

•1994•50m

Portrait or Bust

Overview

Alan Bennett's personal overview of art, filmed in the atmospheric location of a Leeds art gallery.

Director

Jonathan Stedall

Writing & Screenplay

Principal Cast

3 credited

Alan Bennett

Alan BennettHimself

Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn BraggHimself (uncredited)

Nigel Hawthorne

Nigel HawthorneHimself (uncredited)

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