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Dec 19, 2023 · Many famous actors have played Hamlet, but who is the most famous? Mel Gibson tops our list. Gibson played Hamlet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 film. Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis played Hamlet at the National Theatre in London in 1989. An exhausted Day-Lewis collapsed during the pivotal scene where the ghost of Hamlet's father first appears.
Apr 12, 2017 · John Gielgud played Hamlet over 500 times, in six different productions in New York, Elsinore in Denmark, and in London. Gielgud was the definitive 20th century Hamlet, famed for his ability to convey subtle thoughts, and for his voice.
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Hamlet is the most complex and coveted role in classical theatre, attracting the leading actor of every age, and a few actresses as well, including a comically inventive Sarah Bernhardt, in the late nineteenth century, and Sarah Siddons, the great tragedienne of the late eighteenth century, who must be one of the few players to have tackled not onl...
Although the text of Hamlet was not subject to the kind of long lasting adaptations inflicted upon other of Shakespeare's plays in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was, nevertheless, shortened: long speeches were curtailed, bawdy references, including those of the mad Ophelia, were decorously cut. From the seventeenth century throu...
David Garrick, the predominant actor-manager of the eighteenth century, was very much a man of his time in focusing on the family and on filial emotions in his interpretation of Hamlet. Audiences were thrilled by the naturalism and emotional power of Garrick's acting, particularly in the tender expression of love for his dead father, and his contag...
All the leading actors of throughout nineteenth century proved their mettle in Hamlet : John Philip Kemble was a melancholy and rather too stately a Prince (he was described by Hazlitt as playing it 'like a man in armour'), Edmund Kean expressed eager love rather than terror on meeting the Ghost and his love for Ophelia remained evident even though...
Hamlet was brought startlingly up-to-date in H.K.Ayliff's production at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1925. The play held its mirror up to nature, as Hamlet requires that it should, and, in place of doublet and hose, there were plus fours, flapper dresses and bobbed hair: the Danish court were as fashionably dressed as their Midlands audience...
John Gielgud is the actor of the twentieth century most closely associated with Hamlet. He played the role five times between 1930 and 1944, and also directed Richard Burton as the Prince in New York in 1964. Aged 25 when he first took on the role, Gielgud brought out the character's youthful changeability and mercurial speed of thought. As always,...
Laurence Olivier played an athletic and fiery Prince in Tyrone Guthrie's full text production at the Old Vic in 1937. This production was remarkable for its interpretation of Hamlet's delay based on Freud's analysis of the Oedipal complex, in which the son unconsciously desires to kill the father and possess the mother. In this reading, Hamlet cann...
Hansgunther Heyme's production in Cologne in 1979 was fearlessly committed to an exploration of the boundaries between illusion and reality. His actors videoed each other with hand-held cameras which then multiplied every action via a wall of television monitors. Hamlet himself was represented by two actors, one of whom spoke the lines of Schlegel'...
In 1948 Olivier directed and starred in a film version closely following the Oedipal interpretation of his stage performance, but this time cutting Fortinbras to maintain a tight focus on the famil...The Russian director, Grigori Kozintsev, produced a powerful and highly atmospheric version of the play on film in 1964, with Innokenti Smoktunovsky as the Prince.Nicol Williamson played Hamlet and Mariane Faithfull Ophelia in Tony Richardson's film version of his production, originally staged at the Roundhouse in 1969.Derek Jacobi reprised his stage performance for the BBC TV Shakespeare series in 1980, directed by Rodney Bennett.French actress Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, in a publicity postcard from the end of the 19th century. Hamlet has been a popular breeches role. Hamlet by William Shakespeare has been performed many times since the beginning of the 17th century.
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- Simon Russell Beale, National Theatre, 2000. “Tubby or not tubby” – that was the inevitable gag as Russell Beale’s portly, relatively long in the tooth Hamlet took to the stage in John Caird’s revival.
- Jonathan Pryce, Royal Court, 1980. It’s astonishing how salient this performance has proved, both as a landmark in Pryce’s career and a benchmark by which modern Hamlets are judged.
- Mark Rylance, RSC, 1988. Rylance has played Hamlet more than 400 times – his first outing, in a sign of early promise, as a high-school junior in Milwaukee.
- Rory Kinnear, National Theatre, 2010. Kinnear, in Nicholas Hytner’s production, gave us an ordinary, slobbish, blokey hero retreating to his student bedsit lair and struggling to battle his lonely way through an impossible situation, delivering “To be or not to be” while smoking a cigarette.
Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 film of Hamlet stars Mel Gibson as the title character, with Glenn Close as Gertrude, Alan Bates as Claudius and Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia.
Characters. Hamlet – son of the late king and nephew of the present king, Claudius. Claudius – King of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle and brother to the former king. Gertrude – Queen of Denmark and Hamlet's mother. Polonius – chief counsellor to the king. Ophelia – Polonius's daughter. Horatio – friend of Hamlet. Laertes – Polonius's son.
