BBC Television Shakespeare

Cherie Lunghi

Beatrice

Arnold Diamond

Tubal

Laurence Naismith

Prince Escalus

Estelle Kohler

Hippolyta

Nigel Davenport

Theseus

Andrew MacLachlan

First Officer

John Rhys-Davies

Salerio

David Robb

Laertes

Donald Sumpter

Pompeius

Eric Porter

Polonius

Susan Jameson

Nerissa

Danny Webb

Servant

Joolia Cappleman

Mariana

Richard Wordsworth

Cardinal Pandulph

Anthony Andrews

Mercutio

John Abineri

Bishop of Ely

Jenny Laird

Lady Northumberland

George Howe

Euphronius

Clive Dunn

Verges

Katharine Levy

Hero

Lee Montague

Leonato

David Warner

Don Armado

Maureen Lipman

The Princess of France

Robin Sachs

Busby

Jenny Agutter

Rosaline

Jonathan Adams

Ventidius

Paul Kelly

Publius/2nd Goth

Felicity Kendal

Viola

Jimmy Gardner

Clown

Mohammad Shamsi

Mardian

Geoffrey Beevers

Third Player (Lucianus)

Stuart Fell

Player

Marc Zuber

The Prince of Morocco

Gemma Jones

Portia

Suzanne Burden

Cressida

Margaret Tyzack

Paulina

John Nettles

Bassanio

Nigel Hawthorne

Stephano

Nicholas Gecks

Volumnius

Petra Markham

Katharine

Leonard Rossiter

King John

Phil Daniels

Puck

Warren Mitchell

Shylock

Charles Keating

Duke of Aumerle

Robert Stephens

Polixenes

Warren Clarke

Caliban

John Bailey

Sempronius

Douglas Wilmer

The Duke of Venice

Ann Pennington

Helen

Patrick Ryecart

Romeo

John Cleese

Petruchio

Robert Hardy

Sir Toby Belch

Seymour Green

First Senator

Christopher Ettridge

Scarus

Geoffrey Palmer

Quince

Joan Hickson

Widow

Damien Thomas

Bagot

Charles Kay

King Philip of France

Peter Jeffrey

Parolles

Sarah Badel

Katherine

Peter Whitbread

Calchas

Peter McEnery

Oberon

Richard Morant

Lorenzo

Ronnie Stevens

Sir Andrew Aguecheek

Deddie Davies

Nurse

Jeremy Bulloch

Henry Percy

Dominic Jephcott

Second French Lord

David Waller

Alonso

Robert Gwilym

Conrade

Darien Angadi

Alexas

Elizabeth Spriggs

Mistress Quickly

Ben Kingsley

Frank Ford

Nigel Terry

Pistol

Prunella Scales

Mistress Page

Judy Davis

Mistress Ford

Michael Pennington

Posthumus

Marius Goring

Sicilius Leonatus

Michael Gough

Belarius

Richard Johnson

Cymbeline

Patricia Hayes

Soothsayer

Alan Dalton

Green

Janet Maw

Queen

David Swift

Duke of Northumberland

Nicholas Young

Lord

Zulema Dene

Lady Montague

Michael Robbins

Nym

Richard O'Callaghan

Slender

Jeremy Kemp

Leontes

Kevin Stoney

Countess's Steward

John Sterland

Cornelius

John Nettleton

Gonzalo

Julian Glover

The Constable of France

Brian Deacon

Second Citizen/First Messenger/Earl of Richmond

Patsy Kensit

Lady Margaret Plantagenet

Zoë Wanamaker

Lady Anne

David Daker

Lord Hastings

Simon Chandler

Fenton

Richard Griffiths

Sir John Falstaff

Michael Bryant

Doctor Caius

Alan Bennett

Justice Shallow

Bryan Marshall

George Page

Ralph Brown

John

Jill Baker

Lady Macduff

Roger Davidson

Balthasar

Roger Daltrey

The Dromios

Cyril Cusack

Aegeon

Frank Barrie

Sir Eglamour

Andrew Burt

Third Outlaw

Paul Daneman

Duke of Milan

Tony Haygarth

Launce

Tessa Peake-Jones

Julia

Alan Howard

Caius Marcius

Leon Lissek

Third Citizen

Paul Henry

Peter

Joss Ackland

Menenius

Juliet Stevenson

Thaisa

Amanda Redman

Marina

Edward Petherbridge

Gower

John Woodvine

King Antiochus

Danny Schiller

Musician

Rebecca Saire

Juliet

Ian Hogg

Banquo

Christopher Northey

Paris

Joseph O'Conor

Friar Lawrence

James Hazeldine

Malcolm

Yolande Palfrey

Juliet

Christopher Ellison

Captain

Nicol Williamson

Macbeth

Mark Dignam

Duncan

Tony Doyle

Macduff

Eileen Way

Second Witch

James Bolam

Porter

Eamon Boland

Seyton/Third Murderer

Noel Johnson

First Merchant

Ingrid Pitt

Courtezan

David Kelly

Balthazar

Michael Elphick

Dogberry

John Gielgud

Chorus / John of Gaunt

Jeffrey Holland

Duke of Surrey

Hugh Quarshie

Aaron / Philostrate

David Burke

Camillo / Sir William Catesby

Jane Lapotaire

Cleopatra / Lady Macbeth

John Franklyn-Robbins

Antonio / Baptista

Clifford Rose

Bishop of Carlisle / Boyet

Patrick Allen

Ghost of Hamlet's Father / King Simonides

John Barron

Duke of Venice / Vincentio

Anna Calder-Marshall

Hermione / Lavinia

Brenda Blethyn

Cordelia / Joan La Pucelle

Frank Williams

Dull / Officer

Pippa Guard

Hermia / Miranda

Emrys James

Enobarbus / First Player (King)

Wendy Hiller

Aemelia / Duchess of York

Rosemary Leach

Emilia / Widow of Florence

Anton Lesser

Edgar / Troilus

Geoffrey Chater

Brabantio / Nestor

Bryan Pringle

Pistol

Howard Goorney

Second Senator / Soothsayer

Mary Morris

Duchess of Gloucester

Tony Steedman

Aeneas / Montano

Michael Kitchen

Edmund / The Antipholi

Jeremy Dimmick

Mamillius / Young Duke of York

Tim Wylton

First Gravedigger / Fluellen

John Bird

Painter / Pedant

Geoffrey Lumsden

Egeus / Philario

Anthony Pedley

Brutus / Tranio

Celia Johnson

Countess of Rousillion / Nurse

David Buck

Earl of Westmorland

Penelope Wilton

Desdemona / Regan

John Burgess

Sicinius / Sir Nathaniel

Valentine Dyall

Adrian / Marcade

Alec McCowen

Chorus / Malvolio

Anthony Pedley

Agrippa / Ajax / Roderigo

Bruce Purchase

Earl of Northumberland / Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland

Julia Foster

Margaret, Daughter of Reignier / Queen Margaret

Gordon Gostelow

Bardolph

David Neal

Proculeius / Scroop, Archbishop of York

Mark Wing-Davey

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

Ron Cook

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

David Gwillim

Henry, Prince of Wales / King Henry the Fifth

Charles Gray

Duke of York / Pandarus / Solinus, Duke of Ephesus

Bernard Hill

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

Trevor Peacock

Feste / Lord Talbot / Sheriff/Jack Cade / Titus

Michael Hordern

Capulet / Jupiter / King Lear / Lafeu / Prospero

Jon Finch

Don Pedro / Henry Bolingbroke / King Henry the Fourth

Brenda Bruce

First Witch / Hostess / Hostess Quickly / Mistress Quickly

Robert Lindsay

Benedick / Fabian / First French Lord / Iachimo / Lysander

Peter Benson

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

Mike Gwilym

Aufidius / Berowne / Pericles

Vernon Dobtcheff

Agamemnon / Apothecary / Don John

Tenniel Evans

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

Richard Owens

Owen Glendower / Thomas Mowbray

Esmond Knight

Lepidus / Old Capulet / Priam

Paul Jesson

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

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 (uncredit

Rob Edwards

Prince John of Lancaster

Robert Brown

Earl of Pembroke

Frank Middlemass

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

Claire Bloom

Constance / Gertrude / Queen

Ian Charleson

Bertram / Fortinbras / Octavius Caesar

Norman Rodway

Apemantus / Cleon of Tarsus / Earl of Gloucester

Michele Dotrice

Lady Percy / Lady Percy, Hotspur's Widow

Anthony Quayle

Sir John Falstaff

Annette Crosbie

Dionyza / Duchess of York / Maria

Clive Swift

Lord Cerimon / Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester

Michael Byrne

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

Robert Morris

Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March

Jonathan Cecil

Hortensio

Lynn Farleigh

Octavia

Jacqueline Hill

Lady Capulet

Benjamin Whitrow

Ulysses

Susan Penhaligon

Bianca

Diana Dors

Timandra

Ralph Michael

Lord Chief Justice

Anthony Hopkins

Othello

Jonathan Hyde

Rosencrantz

Anna Quayle

Alice

Ian Barritt

French Herald

Christopher Guard

Ferdinand

Eileen Atkins

Tamora

John Fortune

Poet

Brian Glover

Bottom

John Grillo

Oswald

Lalla Ward

Ophelia

Enn Reitel

Lancelot Gobbo

Trevor Baxter

Archbishop of Canterbury

Cyril Luckham

Antigonus

Sinéad Cusack

Olivia

John Welsh

Flavius

Edward Hibbert

Robert Faulconbridge

Kenneth Cranham

Gratiano

John Savident

Friar John

Angus Lennie

Curtis

Andrew Sachs

Trinculo

Gavin Richards

Lucius

Colin Blakely

Antony

Patrick Stewart

Claudius

Paul Brooke

Lavache

Thorley Walters

Charles the Sixth, King of France

John Castle

Earl of Salisbury

Robert Eddison

Justice Robert Shallow

Maurice Roëves

Antonio

Frank Thornton

Gremio

Christopher Blake

Longaville

Harry Waters

Biondello / Thyreus

Arthur Hewlett

Priest / Shepard

Tim Pigott-Smith

Henry 'Hotspur' Percy

Ian Puleston-Davies

Second Company

Derek Farr

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

Helen Mirren

Imogen / Titania

Christopher Strauli

Benvolio / Claudio

John Woodnutt

Doctor / Panthino

Joanna McCallum

Countess d'Auvergne / Virgilia

Patsy Smart

Gentlewoman / Helen

Graham Crowden

Caius Lucius / Friar Francis

Derek Jacobi

Hamlet / King Richard II

Geoffrey Burridge

Dumain / Guiderius

Nicky Henson

Demetrius

Phyllida Law

Lady Faulconbridge

James Cossins

Lucullus

Kenneth Haigh

Achilles

Alan Rickman

Tybalt

Joe Gladwin

Old Gobbo

Nickolas Grace

The Soldier

John Thaw

Hubert de Burgh

Don Estelle

Starveling

David Dixon

Ariel

Keith Drinkel

Lewis, the Dauphin

Colin McCormack

Dion

Alan David

Solanio

Frances Cuka

Doll Tearsheet

Jonathan Pryce

Timon

Bob Hoskins

Iago

Edward Hardwicke

Marcus

John Paul

Canidius / Montague