Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words (2011) featured a cast of 35 tracked actors. Of these, 7 (39%) are still alive today and 11 have passed away. The oldest surviving cast member is David Attenborough, age 100. This TV series starred Rebecca Front and Lisa Appignanesi.
39% still with us· verified cast20% of full cast · incl. 17 unverified
Survivorship
Cast Reunion Index: 39% still living
Avg. Age at Death: 81.1 yrs
Deaths by Year
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Cast35 members
| Person | Character | Status | DOB | Age | DOD | Age in 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Rebecca Front Narrator | Narrator | Living | 16/05/1964 | 62 | — | 47 |
Lisa Appignanesi Self | Self | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
| Self | Living | 08/05/1926 | 100 | — | 85 | |
Tanya Byron Self | Self | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Richard Dawkins Self | Self | Living | 26/03/1941 | 85 | — | 70 |
John Freeman Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Sigmund Freud Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 06/05/1856 | 83 | 23/09/1939 | 155 |
 Jane Goodall Self | Self | Deceased | 03/04/1934 | 91 | 01/10/2025 | 77 |
 Carl Jung Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 26/07/1875 | 85 | 06/06/1961 | 136 |
 R.D. Laing Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 07/10/1927 | 61 | 23/08/1989 | 84 |
Margaret Mead Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Stanley Milgram Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 15/08/1933 | 51 | 20/12/1984 | 78 |
Desmond Morris Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
B.F. Skinner Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Isaiah Berlin Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
William Beveridge Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Alain de Botton Self | Self | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Milton Friedman Self | Self | Deceased | 31/07/1912 | 94 | 16/11/2006 | 99 |
Francis Fukuyama Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Germaine Greer Self | Self | Living | 29/01/1939 | 87 | — | 72 |
 Tariq Ali Self | Self | Living | 21/10/1943 | 82 | — | 68 |
John Maynard Keynes Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 David Miliband Self | Self | Living | 15/07/1965 | 61 | — | 46 |
John Redwood Self | Self | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Bertrand Russell Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 17/05/1872 | 97 | 02/02/1970 | 139 |
Margaret Thatcher Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Friedrich von Hayek Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 08/05/1899 | 92 | 23/03/1992 | 112 |
 Leonard Woolf Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 25/11/1880 | 88 | 14/08/1969 | 131 |
John Berger Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Kenneth Clark Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 13/07/1903 | 79 | 21/05/1983 | 108 |
Stuart Hall Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 David Hare Self | Self | Living | 05/06/1947 | 79 | — | 64 |
Edward Said Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Jean Seaton Self | Self | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Susan Sontag Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 16/01/1933 | 71 | 28/12/2004 | 78 |
