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214 results found for all records.
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...
Kumonosu-Jo (1957 Film, Video)
aka: Throne of Blood
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Akira Kurosawa
The story of MACBETH transposed to medieval Japan, with Macbeth as a samurai and drawing on traditions from Noh drama. Toshiro Mifune is Macbeth. In Kurosawa’s masterly interpretation of MACBETH ‘the...
Richard III (1955 Film)
- Director
- Laurence Olivier
- Producer
- Laurence Olivier
What makes this ‘gloriously watchable, now as then, is Oliver’s effortlessly virtuosic performance as Richard: imperious, ironic, bruttish, sometimes hysterical and never less than smirkingly...
Dvenadtsataya Noch (1955 Film)
aka: Twelfth Night
- Director
- Yan Fried
- Producer
- Yan Fried
Russian adaptation of the play. Katya Luchko is Viola.
Scenes from King Lear (1955 Radio)
- Director
- Andrew C. Love
Radio adaption of King Lear by Carl Ritchie of Robert Loper’s 1958 stage production for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Narrated by Loper with Richard Graham as Lear.
King Richard II (1954 Television)
aka: Richard II
- Series
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
- Director
- George Schaefer; Albert McCleery
- Producer
- Albert McCleery
Television production of the play directed for stage by George Schaefer and for NBC by Albert McCleery with Maurice Evans in the title role. Heralded as a major cultural invasion into the world of commercial...
Othello (1952 Film)
- Director
- Orson Welles
- Producer
- Orson Welles
Feature film. Welles’ first European work, shot in fits and starts over four years at various locations in Morocco and Italy, due to lack of finance. This accounts for the inconsistent technical quality,...
Io, Amleto (1952 Film)
aka: I, Hamlet
- Director
- Giorgio Simonelli
Comic parody. Hamlet meet’s his father’s ghost and discovers how his uncle killed his father. The Prince takes refuge until he can conquer his enemies and become King of Denmark. The film concludes with...
Life of Henry V, The (1951 Television)
- Director
- Royston Morley
- Producer
- Royston Morley; Leonard Brett
Televised adaptation of the play, produced and directed by Leonard Brett and Royston Morley and starring Clement McCallin as King Henry.