BBC Television Shakespeare

Anna Quayle

Alice

Kate Nelligan

Isabella

Alun Armstrong

Provost

Jonathan Hyde

Rosencrantz

John Stride

Henry VIII

Ronald Pickup

Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

Anthony Hopkins

Othello

Ralph Michael

Lord Chief Justice

Diana Dors

Timandra

Susan Penhaligon

Bianca

Benjamin Whitrow

Ulysses

Lynn Farleigh

Octavia

Lalla Ward

Ophelia

Enn Reitel

Lancelot Gobbo

John Castle

Earl of Salisbury

Thorley Walters

Charles the Sixth, King of France

Paul Brooke

Lavache

Patrick Stewart

Claudius

Colin Blakely

Antony

Gavin Richards

Lucius

Andrew Sachs

Trinculo

Angus Lennie

Curtis

Kenneth Cranham

Gratiano

Edward Hibbert

Robert Faulconbridge

John Welsh

Flavius

Sinéad Cusack

Olivia

Cyril Luckham

Antigonus

Trevor Baxter

Archbishop of Canterbury

Jonathan Cecil

Hortensio

David Waller

Alonso

Ann Pennington

Helen

Douglas Wilmer

The Duke of Venice

John Bailey

Sempronius

Warren Clarke

Caliban

Robert Stephens

Polixenes

Warren Mitchell

Shylock

Phil Daniels

Puck

Leonard Rossiter

King John

Petra Markham

Katharine

Nicholas Gecks

Volumnius

Nigel Hawthorne

Stephano

John Nettles

Bassanio

Margaret Tyzack

Paulina

John Cleese

Petruchio

Robert Hardy

Sir Toby Belch

Dominic Jephcott

Second French Lord

Deddie Davies

Nurse

Ronnie Stevens

Sir Andrew Aguecheek

Richard Morant

Lorenzo

Peter McEnery

Oberon

Peter Whitbread

Calchas

Sarah Badel

Katherine

Peter Jeffrey

Parolles

Charles Kay

King Philip of France

Joan Hickson

Widow

Geoffrey Palmer

Quince

Christopher Ettridge

Scarus

Seymour Green

First Senator

Suzanne Burden

Cressida

Gemma Jones

Portia

John Abineri

Bishop of Ely

Richard Wordsworth

Cardinal Pandulph

Joolia Cappleman

Mariana

Danny Webb

Servant

Susan Jameson

Nerissa

Eric Porter

Polonius

Donald Sumpter

Pompeius

David Robb

Laertes

John Rhys-Davies

Salerio

Andrew MacLachlan

First Officer

Nigel Davenport

Theseus

Estelle Kohler

Hippolyta

Arnold Diamond

Tubal

Jenny Laird

Lady Northumberland

George Howe

Euphronius

Marc Zuber

The Prince of Morocco

Stuart Fell

Player

Geoffrey Beevers

Third Player (Lucianus)

Mohammad Shamsi

Mardian

Jimmy Gardner

Clown

Felicity Kendal

Viola

Paul Kelly

Publius/2nd Goth

Jonathan Adams

Ventidius

Jenny Agutter

Rosaline

Maureen Lipman

The Princess of France

David Warner

Don Armado

Lee Montague

Leonato

Katharine Levy

Hero

Clive Dunn

Verges

Cherie Lunghi

Beatrice

Robert Gwilym

Conrade

Michael Elphick

Dogberry

John Woodvine

King Antiochus

Edward Petherbridge

Gower

Amanda Redman

Marina

Juliet Stevenson

Thaisa

Joss Ackland

Menenius

Leon Lissek

Third Citizen

Alan Howard

Caius Marcius

Tessa Peake-Jones

Julia

Tony Haygarth

Launce

Paul Daneman

Duke of Milan

Andrew Burt

Third Outlaw

Frank Barrie

Sir Eglamour

Cyril Cusack

Aegeon

Roger Daltrey

The Dromios

David Kelly

Balthazar

Ingrid Pitt

Courtezan

Michael Hordern

Capulet / Jupiter / King Lear / Lafeu / Prospero

Noel Johnson

First Merchant

Jon Finch

Don Pedro / Henry Bolingbroke / King Henry the Fourth

Eamon Boland

Seyton/Third Murderer

Michael Byrne

Antonio / Duke of Alençon / Duke of Buckingham / John Hume/Ship's Lieutenant / Marquess of Montague/Father who killed his son

Eileen Way

Second Witch

Peter Benson

King Henry VI / King Henry VI/Priest (uncredited) / Second Gravedigger

Tony Doyle

Macduff

Robert Lindsay

Benedick / Fabian / First French Lord / Iachimo / Lysander

Mark Dignam

Duncan

Brenda Bruce

First Witch / Hostess / Hostess Quickly / Mistress Quickly

Nicol Williamson

Macbeth

Trevor Peacock

Feste / Lord Talbot / Sheriff/Jack Cade / Titus

Christopher Ellison

Captain

Charles Gray

Duke of York / Julius Caesar / Pandarus / Solinus, Duke of Ephesus

James Hazeldine

Malcolm

Bernard Hill

Duke of York / First Murderer/Sir William Brandon (uncredited)/Sheriff of Wiltshire (uncredited) / Master Gunner/Duke of York

Ian Hogg

Banquo

David Gwillim

Henry, Prince of Wales / King Henry the Fifth

Jill Baker

Lady Macduff

Ron Cook

Richard III / Richard Plantaganet/Alderman of St. Albans (uncredited) / Richard, Duke of Gloucester / Third Messenger to the King/Countess's Porter

Nicholas Young

Lord

Mark Wing-Davey

Earl of Warwick / Sir James Tyrrell/Sir James Blount (uncredited)/First Citizen (uncredited)

Patricia Hayes

Soothsayer

David Neal

Proculeius / Scroop, Archbishop of York

Richard Johnson

Cymbeline

Gordon Gostelow

Bardolph

Michael Gough

Belarius

Julia Foster

Margaret, Daughter of Reignier / Queen Margaret

Marius Goring

Sicilius Leonatus

Bruce Purchase

Earl of Northumberland / Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland

Michael Pennington

Posthumus

Mike Gwilym

Aufidius / Berowne / Pericles

Judy Davis

Mistress Ford

Esmond Knight

Lepidus / Old Capulet / Priam

Prunella Scales

Mistress Page

Richard Owens

Owen Glendower / Thomas Mowbray

Nigel Terry

Pistol

Clive Swift

Lord Cerimon / Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester

Ben Kingsley

Frank Ford

Helen Mirren

Imogen / Rosalind / Titania

Elizabeth Spriggs

Mistress Quickly

Arthur Hewlett

Adam / Priest / Shepard

Michael Robbins

Nym

Tim Pigott-Smith

Angelo / Henry 'Hotspur' Percy

Richard O'Callaghan

Slender

Annette Crosbie

Dionyza / Duchess of York / Maria

Ralph Brown

John

Anthony Quayle

Sir John Falstaff

Bryan Marshall

George Page

Michele Dotrice

Lady Percy / Lady Percy, Hotspur's Widow

Alan Bennett

Justice Shallow

Norman Rodway

Apemantus / Cleon of Tarsus / Earl of Gloucester

Michael Bryant

Doctor Caius

Ian Charleson

Bertram / Fortinbras / Octavius Caesar

Richard Griffiths

Sir John Falstaff

Claire Bloom

Constance / Gertrude / Queen

Simon Chandler

Fenton

Frank Middlemass

Bishop, later Cardinal, of Winchester / Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester / Fool

David Daker

Lord Hastings

Robert Brown

Earl of Pembroke

Zoë Wanamaker

Lady Anne

Rob Edwards

Prince John of Lancaster

Patsy Kensit

Lady Margaret Plantagenet

John Benfield

Basset/French Sergeant/French Soldier (uncredited)/Scout (uncredited) / Earl of Northumberland/Huntsman/Warwick's Messenger (uncredited) / First Murderer/Ship's Master/Beadle of St. Albans (uncredited)/King's Messenger (uncredited)/1st Neighbour (uncredited)

Brian Deacon

Second Citizen/First Messenger/Earl of Richmond

Paul Jesson

George, Duke of Clarence / John Holland/George Plantagenet/John Southwell (uncredited) / Second Messenger to the King

John Nettleton

Gonzalo

Tenniel Evans

Duke of Bedford/Mortimer, Earl of March/French General / Sir Hugh Evans / Stanley, Earl of Derby/Archbishop of York

John Sterland

Cornelius

Anthony Pedley

Agrippa / Ajax / Roderigo

Kevin Stoney

Countess's Steward

Alec McCowen

Chorus / Malvolio

Jeremy Kemp

Leontes

Celia Johnson

Countess of Rousillion / Nurse

Darien Angadi

Alexas

Rosemary Leach

Emilia / Widow of Florence

Emrys James

Enobarbus / First Player (King)

John Gielgud

Chorus / John of Gaunt

Pippa Guard

Hermia / Miranda

Frank Williams

Dull / Officer

John Paul

Canidius / Montague

Derek Jacobi

Hamlet / Richard II

Brenda Blethyn

Cordelia / Joan La Pucelle

Wendy Hiller

Aemelia / Duchess of York

Mary Morris

Douchess of Gloucester / Duchess of Gloucester

Clifford Rose

Bishop of Carlisle / Boyet

Anna Calder-Marshall

Hermione / Lavinia

John Barron

Duke of Venice / Vincentio

Jeffrey Holland

Duke of Surrey / William

Patrick Allen

Ghost of Hamlet's Father / King Simonides

Richard Pasco

Brutus / Jacques

James Bolam

Porter / Touchstone

John Franklyn-Robbins

Antonio / Baptista

Jane Lapotaire

Cleopatra / Lady Macbeth

David Burke

Camillo / Sir William Catesby

Julian Glover

Duke of Buckingham / The Constable of France

Hugh Quarshie

Aaron / Philostrate

Anton Lesser

Edgar / Troilus

Geoffrey Chater

Brabantio / Nestor

Valentine Dyall

Adrian / Marcade

John Burgess

Sicinius / Sir Nathaniel

Penelope Wilton

Desdemona / Regan

David Buck

Earl of Westmorland

Anthony Pedley

Brutus / Tranio

Geoffrey Lumsden

Egeus / Philario

John Bird

Painter / Pedant

Tim Wylton

First Gravedigger / Fluellen

Jeremy Dimmick

Mamillius / Young Duke of York

Michael Kitchen

Edmund / The Antipholi

Tony Steedman

Aeneas / Montano

Howard Goorney

Second Senator / Soothsayer

Bryan Pringle

Pistol

Robert Morris

Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March

Geoffrey Burridge

Dumain / Guiderius

Vernon Dobtcheff

Agamemnon / Don John

Graham Crowden

Caius Lucius / Friar Francis

Patsy Smart

Gentlewoman / Helen

Joanna McCallum

Countess d'Auvergne / Virgilia

John Woodnutt

Doctor / Panthino

Derek Farr

Earl of Salisbury/Sir William Lucy / Sir Robert Brackenbury/Earl of Surrey/Scrivener (uncredited)/Third Citizen (uncredited)/Bishop of Ely (uncredited)

Ian Puleston-Davies

Second Company

Harry Waters

Biondello / Thyreus

Patrick Ryecart

Romeo

Rebecca Saire

Juliet

Joseph O'Conor

Friar Laurence

Laurence Naismith

Prince Escalus

Anthony Andrews

Mercutio

Christopher Blake

Longaville

Alan Rickman

Tybalt

Frank Thornton

Gremio

Jacqueline Hill

Lady Capulet

Christopher Strauli

Benvolio

Christopher Northey

Paris

Nicky Henson

Demetrius

Paul Henry

Peter

Roger Davidson

Balthasar

Phyllida Law

Lady Faulconbridge

Zulema Dene

Lady Montague

Edward Hardwicke

Marcus

Bob Hoskins

Iago

David Sibley

Sampson

Jonathan Pryce

Timon

Frances Cuka

Doll Tearsheet

Alan David

Solanio

Colin McCormack

Dion

David Swift

Duke of Northumberland

Charles Keating

Duke of Aumerle

Janet Maw

Queen

Jeremy Bulloch

Henry Percy

Robin Sachs

Bushy

Damien Thomas

Bagot

Alan Dalton

Green

Keith Drinkel

Lewis, the Dauphin

David Dixon

Ariel

David Dodimead

Lord Ross

Don Estelle

Starveling

John Flint

Lord Willoughby

Brian Stirner

Orlando

John Thaw

Hubert de Burgh

Angharad Rees

Celia

Clive Francis

Oliver

Nickolas Grace

The Soldier

Joe Gladwin

Old Gobbo

Richard Easton

Duke Frederick

Kenneth Haigh

Achilles

Tony Church

Duke Senior

James Cossins

Lucullus

John Quentin

Le Beau

Maurice Roëves

Antonio

Maynard Williams

Silvius

Robert Eddison

Justice Robert Shallow

Victoria Plucknett

Phebe

Marilyn Le Conte

Audrey

Tom McDonnell

Amiens

David Lloyd Meredith

Corin

John Grillo

Oswald

Brian Glover

Bottom

John Fortune

Poet

Timothy Bateson

Sir Oliver Martext

David Prowse

Charles

Eileen Atkins

Tamora

Christopher Guard

Ferdinand

Keith Michell

Marc Antony

David Collings

Cassius

Ian Barritt

French Herald

Kenneth Colley

Duke Vincentio