May 25, 1980
210 minutes
DramaTV Movie
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.
Trailer
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)
