Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years

Narrator / ... (27 episodes, 1960-1961)

Winston Churchill

Richard Burton said that making this film made him realize how much he hated Winston Churchill.

Laurence Olivier was originally approached to read the words of Winston Churchill. His fee was too high, so Richard Burton got the job.

The Valient Years series was in re-runs on NBC in 1963. On the early afternoon of Friday, November 22, the show was interrupted by NBC newscaster Chet Huntley and then sustained mostly by Frank McGee to provide non-stop coverage of the Kennedy assassination.