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  • Dangerous Brother, The (1960 Television)

    Series
    Age of Kings, An
    Director
    Michael Hayes
    Producer
    Peter Dews

    Episode fourteen in a fifteen-part televised series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies), effectively presenting a chronological history of British...

  • Boar Hunt, The (1960 Television)

    Series
    Age of Kings, An
    Director
    Michael Hayes
    Producer
    Peter Dews

    Last episode in a fifteen-part televised series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies), effectively presenting a chronological history of British...

  • Julius Caesar (1960 Television)

    Series
    Schools Drama
    Director
    Ronald Eyre
    Producer
    Ronald Eyre

    First part of a four-part televised production of Julius Caesar designed for schools.

  • Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru (1960 Film)

    aka: The Bad Sleep Well

    Director
    Akira Kurosawa
    Producer
    Akira Kurosawa; Tomoyuki Tanaka

    Kurosawa directed three adaptations from Shakespeare. Two were recreated as samurai movies: Macbeth became THRONE OF BLOOD (1957), and King Lear inspired his last major film, the epic RAN (1985). THE BAD...

  • Romanoff and Juliet (1960 Film)

    aka: Dig That Juliet

    Director
    Peter Ustinov
    Producer
    Peter Ustinov

    Satirical feature film setting the Romeo and Juliet story into Cold War politics. Igor Romanoff, the son of a Russian ambassador from an obscure Eastern European country, Concordia, falls in love with Juliet...

  • Bard Disappears, The (1960 Television)

    Series
    Case of the Dangerous Robin
    Director
    Richard Bartlett
    Producer
    Richard L. Bare

    Television syndicated drama series, created by Leo Gordon and John Abernathy, about two investigators of fraud claims. In this episode a highly-insured Shakespeare first folio is stolen from a London...

  • Henry IV. Part I (1960 Television)

    Series
    Play of the Week, The (Us)
    Director
    Stuart Vaughan; Worthington Miner
    Producer
    David Susskind

    Television version of the play staged for the Phoenix Theatre by Stuart Vaughan and directed for television by Worthington Miner. Donald Davis is King Henry.

  • Julius Caesar (1960 Television)

    Series
    Festival (Canada)
    Director
    Paul Almond
    Producer
    Paul Almond

    Canadian arts series. Julius Caesar performed for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival and adapted for television and directed by Paul Almond. William Shatner as Mark Antony.

  • Rhythm (1960 Television)

    Series
    Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic
    Director
    William A. Graham

    Irregularly scheduled series of musical specials featuring Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Bernstein compares the beat in Shakespeare’s verse to rhythms in jazz, Beethoven’s...

  • John Barrymore Reads Shakespeare (1960 Audio, Radio)

    Compilation of dramatic readings from NBC’s 1937 Streamlined Shakespeare radio series. Barrymore sets the stage and relates his own feelings about the plays and characters. He is accompanied at times by...