page_title: Hamlet on screen
section_title: List of screen performances
hierarchical_section_title: Hamlet on screen / List of screen performances
caption_attribution_description: Sarah-Bernhardt (Hamlet) / Lafayette - photo - London. Print shows Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, holding and looking at skull. MEDIUM: 1 photomechanical print (postcard).
context_page_description: Over fifty films of William Shakespeare's Hamlet have been made since 1900. Seven post-war Hamlet films have had a theatrical release: Laurence Olivier's Hamlet of 1948; Grigori Kozintsev's 1964 Russian adaptation; a film of the John Gielgud-directed 1964 Broadway production, Richard Burton's Hamlet, which played limited engagements that same year; Tony Richardson's 1969 version featuring Nicol Williamson as Hamlet and Anthony Hopkins as Claudius; Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 version starring Mel Gibson; Kenneth Branagh's full-text 1996 version; and Michael Almereyda's 2000 modernisation, starring Ethan Hawke.
  Because of the play's length, most films of Hamlet are heavily cut, however Branagh's 1996 version used the full text.
caption: Sarah Bernhardt: the first actress to portray Hamlet on screen.
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