The BBC Television Shakespeare
Overview
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
Cast
Jon Finch
King Henry the Fourth / Henry Bolingbroke
Michael Hordern
Capulet / Lafeu / Prospero
David Gwillim
Henry, Prince of Wales / King Henry the Fifth
Helen Mirren
Titania / Imogen / Rosalind
John Gielgud
John of Gaunt / Chorus
Charles Gray
Julius Caesar / Duke of York
Jeffrey Holland
Duke of Surrey / William
Richard Pasco
Brutus / Jacques
Derek Jacobi
Hamlet / Richard II
David Collings
Cassius / Thurio
Robert Brown
Earl of Pembroke / Sir Walter Blunt
Patrick Ryecart
Romeo
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Rebecca Saire
Juliet
Celia Johnson
Nurse
Joseph O'Conor
Friar Laurence
Laurence Naismith
Prince Escalus
Anthony Andrews
Mercutio
Alan Rickman
Tybalt
Jacqueline Hill
Lady Capulet
Christopher Strauli
Benvolio
Christopher Northey
Paris
Paul Henry
Peter
Roger Davidson
Balthasar
John Paul
Montague
Zulema Dene
Lady Montague
Esmond Knight
Old Capulet
David Sibley
Sampson
Wendy Hiller
Duchess of York
Mary Morris
Douchess of Gloucester
David Swift
Duke of Northumberland
Clifford Rose
Bishop of Carlisle
Charles Keating
Duke of Aumerle
Richard Owens
Thomas Mowbray
Janet Maw
Queen
Jeremy Bulloch
Henry Percy
Robin Sachs
Bushy
Damien Thomas
Bagot
Alan Dalton
Green
David Dodimead
Lord Ross
John Flint
Lord Willoughby
Brian Stirner
Orlando
Angharad Rees
Celia
James Bolam
Touchstone
Clive Francis
Oliver
Richard Easton
Duke Frederick
Tony Church
Duke Senior
John Quentin
Le Beau
Maynard Williams
Silvius
Victoria Plucknett
Phebe
Marilyn Le Conte
Audrey
Tom McDonnell
Amiens
David Lloyd Meredith
Corin
Arthur Hewlett
Adam
Timothy Bateson
Sir Oliver Martext
David Prowse
Charles
Keith Michell
Marc Antony
Kenneth Colley
Duke Vincentio
Kate Nelligan
Isabella
Tim Pigott-Smith
Angelo
Alun Armstrong
Provost
John Stride
Henry VIII
Julian Glover
Duke of Buckingham
Ronald Pickup
Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
David Buck
Earl of Westmoreland
John Abineri
Bishop of Ely
Clive Arrindell
Orsino
Annette Crosbie
Maria
Sinéad Cusack
Olivia
Robert Hardy
Sir Toby Belch
Felicity Kendal
Viola
Robert Lindsay
Fabian
Trevor Peacock
Feste
Nigel Hawthorne
Stephano
Warren Clarke
Caliban
Claire Bloom
Gertrude
Patrick Stewart
Claudius
Sarah Badel
Katherina
John Bird
Pedant
Joan Hickson
Widow
John Franklyn-Robbins
Antonio
Gemma Jones
Portia
John Rhys-Davies
Salerio
Paul Brooke
Lavache
Zoë Wanamaker
Paul Jesson
Nicol Williamson
Macbeth
Jane Lapotaire
Lady Macbeth
Michael Byrne
Antonio
Joss Ackland
Menenius
Patrick Godfrey
Cominius
Leonard Rossiter
King John
John Castle
Earl of Salisbury
John Thaw
Hubert de Burgh
Richard Griffiths
Sir John Falstaff
Elizabeth Spriggs
Mistress Quickly
Judy Davis
Mistress Ford
Prunella Scales
Mistress Page
Ben Kingsley
Frank Ford
Mike Gwilym
Pericles
Juliet Stevenson
Thaisa
Amanda Redman
Marina
Phil Daniels
Puck
Brian Glover
Bottom
Richard Johnson
Cymbeline
Jonathan Kent
Ferdinand, King of Navarre
Maureen Lipman
The Princess of France
Roger Daltrey
Dromio of Ephesus / Dromio of Syracuse
Michael Kitchen
Antipholus of Ephesus / Antipholus of Syracuse
- Creator / Director
- Cedric Messina
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Rating source
- TMDB
- Keywords
- #anthology, #based on play or musical, #poetry, #prose, #stage
