Hamlet

"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."

Cast

Derek Jacobi

as Hamlet

Claire Bloom

as Gertrude

Patrick Stewart

as Claudius

Eric Porter

as Polonius

Lalla Ward

as Ophelia

David Robb

as Laertes

Robert Swann

as Horatio

Patrick Allen

as Ghost of Hamlet's Father

Emrys James

as Player King

Jason Kemp

as Player Queen

Geoffrey Beevers

as Third Player / Lucianus

Bill Homewood

as Player King in the mime

Peter Richard

as Player Queen in the mime

Terence McGinity

as Player Lucianus in the mime

Peter Burroughs

as Player

Stuart Fell

as Player

Ian Charleson

as Fortinbras

Tim Wylton

as First Gravedigger

Peter Benson

as Second Gravedigger

Paul Humpoletz

as Marcellus

Niall Padden

as Bernardo

Christopher Baines

as Francisco

John Humphry

as Voltimand

John Sterland

as Cornelius

Peter Gale

as Osric

Raymond Mason

as Reynaldo

Dan Meaden

as Norwegian Captain

Iain Blair

as Sailor

Reginald Jessup

as Messenger

Michael Poole

as Priest

Geoffrey Bateman

as Guildenstern

David Henry

as English Ambassador

Jonathan Hyde

as Rosencrantz

Crew

Rodney Bennett

Director

William Shakespeare

Author

Chick Anthony

Sound

Dave Hillier

Editor

Pam Meager

Makeup Artist

Cedric Messina

Producer

Barbara Kronig

Costume Design

Fraser Lowden

Unit Production Manager

B. H. Barry

Fight Choreographer

Don Homfray

Production Design

David Lloyd-Jones

Music

Dudley Simpson

Original Music Composer