Hamlet
3h 30min

Drama

TV Movie

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.

Production Companies

BBC

Time-Life Television Productions

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

Peter Benson

Second Gravedigger

Paul Humpoletz

Marcellus

Niall Padden

Bernardo

Christopher Baines

Francisco

John Humphry

Voltimand

John Sterland

Cornelius

Peter Gale

Osric

Raymond Mason

Reynaldo

Dan Meaden

Norwegian Captain

Iain Blair

Sailor

Reginald Jessup

Messenger

Michael Poole

Priest

Geoffrey Bateman

Guildenstern

David Henry

English Ambassador

Jonathan Hyde

Rosencrantz

Release date

25th May 1980

Status

Released

Hamlet3h 30min