Hamlet on screen
Sound films

Hamlet on screen

Section Title: Sound films
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Title	Format Country Year	Director	Hamlet	Other roles

Le Duel d'Hamlet	Short France 1900	Clément Maurice	Sarah Bernhardt	Pierre Magnier as Laertes

Khoon Ka Khoon	Feature India 1935 - the first feature film of Hamlet with sound	Sohrab Modi	Sohrab Modi	Naseem Banu as Ophelia

Hamlet	Feature UK 1948	Laurence Olivier	Laurence Olivier	Jean Simmons as Ophelia Eileen Herlie as Gertrude Basil Sydney as Claudius Felix Aylmer as Polonius

Hallmark Hall of Fame: Hamlet (live TV performance, preserved on kinescope)	TV USA 1953	Albert McCleery	Maurice Evans	Joseph Schildkraut as Claudius Ruth Chatterton as Gertrude Sarah Churchill as Ophelia Barry Jones as Polonius

Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark	Feature West Germany 1961	Franz Peter Wirth	Maximilian Schell

Hamlet at Elsinore	TV Denmark/UK 1963	Philip Saville	Christopher Plummer	Robert Shaw as Claudius Michael Caine as Horatio

Hamlet (aka Gamlet)	Feature Russia 1964	Grigori Kozintsev	Innokenti Smoktunovsky	Anastasiya Vertinskaya as Ophelia

Hamlet (filmed Broadway play)	ELECTRONOVISION USA 1964	John Gielgud	Richard Burton	Hume Cronyn as Polonius Eileen Herlie as Gertrude Alfred Drake as Claudius John Cullum as Laertes

Hamlet (UK, 1969)	Feature UK 1969	Tony Richardson	Nicol Williamson	Marianne Faithfull as Ophelia Anthony Hopkins as Claudius Judy Parfitt as Gertrude Mark Dignam as Polonius Gordon Jackson as Horatio.

Hallmark Hall of Fame: Hamlet (shot on videotape)	TV UK/USA 1970	Peter Wood	Richard Chamberlain	Michael Redgrave as Polonius John Gielgud as the Ghost Margaret Leighton as Gertrude Richard Johnson as Claudius Ciaran Madden as Ophelia

Hamlet	[specify] UK 1976	Celestino Coronado	Anthony and David Meyer	Helen Mirren as Gertrude and Ophelia

BBC Television Shakespeare: Hamlet (shot on videotape) Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.	TV UK 1980	Rodney Bennett	Derek Jacobi	Claire Bloom as Gertrude Patrick Stewart as Claudius Lalla Ward as Ophelia Eric Porter as Polonius

Hamlet	Feature USA 1990	Franco Zeffirelli	Mel Gibson	Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia Glenn Close as Gertrude Ian Holm as Polonius Alan Bates as Claudius

New York Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet (shot on videotape)	TV USA 1990	Kirk Browning and Kevin Kline	Kevin Kline	Diane Venora as Ophelia Dana Ivey as Gertrude

The Animated Shakespeare: Hamlet	TV Russia/UK 1992	Natalia Orlova	Nicholas Farrell (voice)

Hamlet	Feature UK 1996	Kenneth Branagh	Kenneth Branagh	Kate Winslet as Ophelia Derek Jacobi as Claudius Julie Christie as Gertrude Richard Briers as Polonius

Hamlet	TV USA 2000	Campbell Scott	Campbell Scott	Blair Brown as Gertrude Roscoe Lee Browne as Polonius Lisa Gay Hamilton as Ophelia Jamey Sheridan as Claudius

Hamlet	Feature USA 2000	Michael Almereyda	Ethan Hawke	Julia Stiles as Ophelia Kyle MacLachlan as Claudius Diane Venora as Gertrude Liev Schreiber as Laertes Bill Murray as Polonius

Hamlet	Video UK 2003	Mike Mundell	William Houston	Christopher Timothy as Gravedigger

The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark	Feature Australia 2007	Oscar Redding	Richard Pyros	Heather Bolton as Gertrude Brian Lipson as Polonius Beth Buchanan as Ophelia Steve Mouzakis as Claudius

Hamlet	TV UK 2009	Gregory Doran	David Tennant	Penny Downie as Gertrude Oliver Ford Davies as Polonius Mariah Gale as Ophelia Patrick Stewart as Claudius

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Directed by Michael Almereyda, Hamlet (film) stars Ethan Hawke, who plays Hamlet.

final_sentence: Directed by Michael Almereyda, Hamlet (film) stars Ethan Hawke, who plays Hamlet.