Film
Hamlet
United Kingdom- Director
- Rodney Bennett
- Year
- 1980
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.
Top cast
Derek Jacobi
Hamlet
Claire Bloom
Gertrude
Patrick Stewart
Claudius
Eric Porter
Polonius
Lalla Ward
Ophelia
David Robb
Laertes
Robert Swann
Horatio
Patrick Allen
Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Emrys James
Player King
Jason Kemp
Player Queen
Geoffrey Beevers
Third Player / Lucianus
Bill Homewood
Player King in the mime
Peter Richard
Player Queen in the mime
Terence McGinity
Player Lucianus in the mime
Peter Burroughs
Player
Stuart Fell
Player
Ian Charleson
Fortinbras
Tim Wylton
First Gravedigger
Directed by
Rodney Bennett
Produced by
Cedric Messina
