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Hamlet1980

★6.2210 minDramaTV 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.

Director

Writer

William Shakespeare

Score

Dudley Simpson David Lloyd-Jones

Stars

Derek Jacobi Claire Bloom Patrick Stewart

Cast33

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
P
Patrick Allen
as Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Emrys James
as Player King
J
Jason Kemp
as Player Queen
Geoffrey Beevers
as Third Player / Lucianus
B
Bill Homewood
as Player King in the mime
P
Peter Richard
as Player Queen in the mime
T
Terence McGinity
as Player Lucianus in the mime
Peter Burroughs
as Player
S
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
C
Christopher Baines
as Francisco
J
John Humphry
as Voltimand
J
John Sterland
as Cornelius
P
Peter Gale
as Osric
R
Raymond Mason
as Reynaldo
D
Dan Meaden
as Norwegian Captain
I
Iain Blair
as Sailor
R
Reginald Jessup
as Messenger
Michael Poole
as Priest
Geoffrey Bateman
as Guildenstern
D
David Henry
as English Ambassador
Jonathan Hyde
as Rosencrantz

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