page_title: Caliban
section_title: Notable portrayals
hierarchical_section_title: Caliban / Notable portrayals
caption_attribution_description: English: Fyodor Paramonov as Caliban (Maly Theatre, Moscow, 1905) Русский: Ф. А. Парамонов в роли Калибана в «Буре» У. Шекспира (Малый театр, 1905).
context_page_description: Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
  His character is one of the few Shakespearean figures to take on a life of its own "outside" Shakespeare's own work: as Russell Hoban put it, "Caliban is one of the hungry ideas, he's always looking for someone to word him into being ... Caliban is a necessary idea".
context_section_description: Ralph Richardson played Caliban on radio in a 1933 BBC National Programme production.
  In the 1960 Hallmark Hall of Fame television adaptation, Caliban was played by Richard Burton.
  In the 1960 Marlowe Dramatic Society And Professional Players unabridged recording (Argo Records, 216-218), Caliban is played by Patrick Wymark.
  In the 1963 RSC production, Caliban was played by Roy Dotrice.
  In the 1964 Shakespeare Recording Society unabridged recording (Caedmon Records, SRS 201), Caliban is played by Hugh Griffith.
  In the 1974 BBC Radio 3 production, Caliban is played by Patrick Stewart.
  In the 1978 RSC production directed by Clifford Williams, Caliban was played by David Suchet.
  In Derek Jarman's 1979 film adaptation, Caliban is portrayed by Jack Birkett.
  In the 1980 BBC Television adaptation, Caliban was portrayed by Warren Clarke.
  In the 1982 RSC production, Caliban was played by Bob Peck.
  Caliban appears as the wild and lustful Greek Kalibanos (played by Raúl Juliá) in Paul Mazursky's film adaptation Tempest (1982).
  In the 1983 Bard Productions videotaped production, Caliban was played by William Hootkins.
  In the 1992 animated version, Caliban was voiced by Alun Armstrong.
  David Troughton played Caliban in the 1993 RSC production.
  In the 1998 RSC production, Caliban was played by Robert Glenister.
  Caliban appears as the bayou-dwelling "Gator Man" (played by John Pyper-Ferguson) in Jack Bender's 1998 TV film The Tempest (set in Mississippi during the Civil War).
  In the 2000 RSC production, Caliban was played by Zubin Varla.
  Adrian Herrero danced Caliban in the choreographic adaptation of The Tempest (La Tempestad) by the Ballet Contemporáneo of the Teatro General San Martín in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2008.
  In the 2009 RSC production, Caliban was played by John Kani.
  In Julie Taymor's 2010 film adaptation, Caliban is portrayed by Djimon Hounsou.
  In Phyllida Lloyd's 2017 all-female Donmar Warehouse production set in a women's prison and performed by its inmates, Caliban was played by Sophie Stanton.
caption: Fyodor Paramonov [ru] as Caliban in The Tempest, Maly Theatre, 1905
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