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For the song in which the documentary is named after, see Cracked Actor
Cracked Actor is a 53 minute long documentary filmed by the BBC in 1974
about David Bowie during his drug using days. It was made by Alan Yentob
for the Omnibus strand, and was shown on BBC2 in the UK on January 26,
1975. The documentary shows Bowie being driven around in a limousine in
between live concert footage. The footage is from one show but the
documentary is made in such a way as to make you believe you are on tour
with him.
The title of the documentary was originally to be "The Collector", after a
comment that Bowie had made to Russell Harty the previous year, where he
described himself as "a collector of accents". Yentob and his team were
given the task of documenting Bowie's famous Diamond Dogs tour, which was
already underway when they started filming. Locations for the documentary
mainly centred around Hollywoo
