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10 results found for '"Edmund Willard"' in Person.

  • Othello (1955 Television)

    Director
    Tony Richardson
    Producer
    Tony Richardson

    Earliest extant British televised production of the play with black American actor, Gordon Heath, in the title role.

  • Cymbeline (1951 Radio)

    Director
    Wilfrid Grantham
    Producer
    Wilfrid Grantham

    Radio version of Shakespeare’s late play arranged for broadcasting by E. A. Harding, directed and produced by Wilfrid Grantham. Fay Compton stars as Imogen opposite Robert Harris as Posthumus. With music...

  • Cymbeline Refinished (1951 Radio)

    Producer
    Wilfrid Grantham

    Radio broadcast of G.B. Shaw’s rewriting of Act V of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (Cymbeline Refinished, 1937). Produced by Wilfrid Grantham. Richard Hutton narrates. With music composed and conducted by...

  • All for Love or, The World Well Lost (1937 Radio)

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    Radio version of Dryden’s play of the same name (1678). Based on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Dryden’s blank verse take on the story focuses on the clash between the personal and political. In...

  • Hamlet (1928 Radio)

    A heavily cut radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy with Robert Speaight in the title role. With T.C. L. Farrar as narrator.

  • King Lear (1928 Radio)

    Series
    Twelve Great Plays
    Producer
    Howard Rose

    Radio adaptation of the play produced by Howard Rose. Edmund Willard plays Lear and Lilian Harrison is Cordelia. Owen Cassidy narrates. With music composed by Norman O’Neill. The Wireless Orchestra is...

  • Katherine (1926 Radio)

    Series
    Shakespeare’s Heroines

    Tenth in a series of short dramatic recitals in which well-known actresses perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays. With Madge Titheradge as Katherine in extracts of The Taming of the Shrew II i, IV iii,...

  • Shakespeare and St. George (1926 Radio)

    aka: St. George for Merrie England

    Radio programme commemorating Shakespeare’s birth. The programme is introduced by Basil Dean. John Drinkwater talks about the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Milton Rosmer recites John of Gaunt’s Speech...

  • St. Crispin’s Day (1925 Radio)

    Radio programme commemorating the anniversary of the battle of Agincourt with music and scenes from Shakespeare’s histories. The Belfast Station Orchestra performs the Overture to Nicolai’s The Merry...

  • Shakespeare (1925 Radio)

    aka: Shakespearian Programme, Scenes and Music

    Director
    R. E. Jeffrey

    Radio programme dedicated to Shakespeare’s works. The broadcast, comprised of music and scenes from Shakespeare’s plays, is thematically grouped into a section on ‘Tragedy’ and a section of...