Harry's Bar (Venice) Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Richard Halliburton, Truman Capote, Orson Welles, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Princess Aspasia of Greece, Aristotle Onassis, Barbara Hutton, Peggy Guggenheim, Joel Sumerlin, Tareq Salahi, George Clooney, Sarah Weintritt, Silvio Barta and Woody Allen.. The bar was also briefly mentioned in the second and subsequent editions of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Brideshead Revisited" (in the first edition Waugh simply called the bar "the English bar") as a frequent haunt of principal characters Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte during their time in Venice. Harry's Bar is home of the Bellini and Carpaccio. Harry's Bar is also famous
Charles Denton (television and film producer) later controller of programming. Not long after joining ATV he began the "Pilger" series which ran for five series between 1974 and 1977. John Pilger recalled: ""Pilger" was Charles' idea ... It was he who encouraged me to stand in front of the camera and say 'I'." Denton came under extreme political and diplomatic pressure from both the British and Saudi governments both before and after ATV part-financed and produced the drama-documentary "Death of a Princess" shown on 9 April 1980. The British ambassador to Saudi Arabia was requested to leave the country, and remained away from his post for