King Richard III (1956 Radio)

aka: Richard III

Series

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Radio broadcast. Richard III at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival including an interview with the Festival’s founder, Angus Bonner. No further information found (12/2006).

Scenes from Richard III (1956 Radio)

Director

Andrew C. Love

Scenes from Richard III adapted for radio by William Dawkins from Allen Fletcher’s 1956 stage production for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Before the broadcast begins Jennings Pierce interviews director...

Richard III (1956 Radio)

Radio broadcast, heavily abridged. Narrated by Angus Bowmer. No further details known (2007).

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...

Prince of Players (1955 Film)

Director

Philip Dunne

Producer

Philip Dunne

Feature film. Richard Burton portrays Edwin Booth, the 19th century American actor. Booth is helped to success by his wife, Mary. When his brother, John Wilkes, assassinates President Lincoln, Edwin faces...

Shakespeare on TV [05/11/1955] (1955 Television)

Series

Shakespeare on TV

Director

Bill Alcine

Producer

William Whitley

Television documentary. An introduction to Richard III by Dr Frank C. Baxter.

Stratford Adventure, The (1954 Film)

Director

Morton Parker

Producer

Guy Glover

Documentary telling the story of the founding of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival by Stratford-born journalist Tom Patterson. Patterson got together a committee of local people and invited Tyrone Guthrie...

Richard III (1954 Radio)

Series

Cbc Wednesday Night

Director

Andrew Allan

Radio broadcast of Richard III adapted by Lister Sinclair. Role names unknown (10/2008).

Birth of the Stratford Festival (1953 Radio)

Radio documentary on the first Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival relating how the Festival was conceived, financed and realised and how the audience viewed the first performance of Richard III which...

Wars of the Roses, The: An Illustrated Talk by J. Dover Wilson (1952 Radio)

Series

Wars of the Roses, The

Producer

Peter Watts

Radio programme introducing three Shakespeare historical plays which the Third Programme presents as a continuous chronicle: Henry VI, Parts 2 and 3 and Richard III. The opening talk by series editor John...