BBC Television Shakespeare

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

Jeremy Bulloch

Henry Percy

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

Damien Thomas

Bagot

Joan Hickson

Widow

Geoffrey Palmer

Quince

Christopher Ettridge

Scarus

Seymour Green

First Senator

Suzanne Burden

Cressida

Gemma Jones

Portia

John Abineri

Bishop of Ely

Anthony Andrews

Mercutio

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

Laurence Naismith

Prince Escalus

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

Robin Sachs

Busby

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

Paul Henry

Peter

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

Danny Schiller

Musician

Rebecca Saire

Juliet

David Kelly

Balthazar

Ingrid Pitt

Courtezan

Noel Johnson

First Merchant

Eamon Boland

Seyton/Third Murderer

James Bolam

Porter

Eileen Way

Second Witch

Tony Doyle

Macduff

Mark Dignam

Duncan

Nicol Williamson

Macbeth

Christopher Ellison

Captain

Yolande Palfrey

Juliet

James Hazeldine

Malcolm

Joseph O'Conor

Friar Lawrence

Christopher Northey

Paris

Ian Hogg

Banquo

Roger Davidson

Balthasar

Jill Baker

Lady Macduff

Zulema Dene

Lady Montague

Nicholas Young

Lord

David Swift

Duke of Northumberland

Janet Maw

Queen

Alan Dalton

Green

Patricia Hayes

Soothsayer

Richard Johnson

Cymbeline

Michael Gough

Belarius

Marius Goring

Sicilius Leonatus

Michael Pennington

Posthumus

Judy Davis

Mistress Ford

Prunella Scales

Mistress Page

Nigel Terry

Pistol

Ben Kingsley

Frank Ford

Elizabeth Spriggs

Mistress Quickly

Michael Byrne

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

Michael Robbins

Nym

Peter Benson

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

Richard O'Callaghan

Slender

Robert Lindsay

Benedick / Fabian / First French Lord / Iachimo / Lysander

Ralph Brown

John

Brenda Bruce

First Witch / Hostess / Hostess Quickly / Mistress Quickly

Bryan Marshall

George Page

Jon Finch

Don Pedro / Henry Bolingbroke / King Henry the Fourth

Alan Bennett

Justice Shallow

Michael Hordern

Capulet / Jupiter / King Lear / Lafeu / Prospero

Michael Bryant

Doctor Caius

Trevor Peacock

Feste / Lord Talbot / Sheriff/Jack Cade / Titus

Richard Griffiths

Sir John Falstaff

Bernard Hill

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

Simon Chandler

Fenton

Charles Gray

Duke of York / Pandarus / Solinus, Duke of Ephesus

David Daker

Lord Hastings

David Gwillim

Henry, Prince of Wales / King Henry the Fifth

Zoë Wanamaker

Lady Anne

Ron Cook

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

Patsy Kensit

Lady Margaret Plantagenet

Mark Wing-Davey

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

Brian Deacon

Second Citizen/First Messenger/Earl of Richmond

David Neal

Proculeius / Scroop, Archbishop of York

Julian Glover

The Constable of France

Gordon Gostelow

Bardolph

John Nettleton

Gonzalo

Julia Foster

Margaret, Daughter of Reignier / Queen Margaret

John Sterland

Cornelius

Bruce Purchase

Earl of Northumberland / Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland

Kevin Stoney

Countess's Steward

Mike Gwilym

Aufidius / Berowne / Pericles

Jeremy Kemp

Leontes

Vernon Dobtcheff

Agamemnon / Apothecary / Don John

Darien Angadi

Alexas

Clive Swift

Lord Cerimon / Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester

Annette Crosbie

Dionyza / Duchess of York / Maria

Anthony Quayle

Sir John Falstaff

Michele Dotrice

Lady Percy / Lady Percy, Hotspur's Widow

Norman Rodway

Apemantus / Cleon of Tarsus / Earl of Gloucester

Ian Charleson

Bertram / Fortinbras / Octavius Caesar

Claire Bloom

Constance / Gertrude / Queen

Frank Middlemass

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

Robert Brown

Earl of Pembroke

Rob Edwards

Prince John of Lancaster

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)

Paul Jesson

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

Esmond Knight

Lepidus / Old Capulet / Priam

Richard Owens

Owen Glendower / Thomas Mowbray

Tenniel Evans

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

Anthony Pedley

Agrippa / Ajax / Roderigo

Alec McCowen

Chorus / Malvolio

Rosemary Leach

Emilia / Widow of Florence

Wendy Hiller

Aemelia / Duchess of York

Emrys James

Enobarbus / First Player (King)

Pippa Guard

Hermia / Miranda

Frank Williams

Dull / Officer

Brenda Blethyn

Cordelia / Joan La Pucelle

Anna Calder-Marshall

Hermione / Lavinia

John Barron

Duke of Venice / Vincentio

Patrick Allen

Ghost of Hamlet's Father / King Simonides

Clifford Rose

Bishop of Carlisle / Boyet

John Franklyn-Robbins

Antonio / Baptista

Jane Lapotaire

Cleopatra / Lady Macbeth

David Burke

Camillo / Sir William Catesby

Hugh Quarshie

Aaron / Philostrate

Jeffrey Holland

Duke of Surrey

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

Celia Johnson

Countess of Rousillion / Nurse

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

Mary Morris

Duchess of Gloucester

Howard Goorney

Second Senator / Soothsayer

Bryan Pringle

Pistol

John Gielgud

Chorus / John of Gaunt

Robert Morris

Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March

John Paul

Canidius / Montague

Geoffrey Burridge

Dumain / Guiderius

Derek Jacobi

Hamlet / King Richard II

Graham Crowden

Caius Lucius / Friar Francis

Patsy Smart

Gentlewoman / Helen

Joanna McCallum

Countess d'Auvergne / Virgilia

John Woodnutt

Doctor / Panthino

Christopher Strauli

Benvolio / Claudio

Helen Mirren

Imogen / Titania

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

Tim Pigott-Smith

Henry 'Hotspur' Percy

Arthur Hewlett

Priest / Shepard

Harry Waters

Biondello / Thyreus

Christopher Blake

Longaville

Frank Thornton

Gremio

Nicky Henson

Demetrius

Phyllida Law

Lady Faulconbridge

Edward Hardwicke

Marcus

Bob Hoskins

Iago

Jonathan Pryce

Timon

Frances Cuka

Doll Tearsheet

Alan David

Solanio

Colin McCormack

Dion

Keith Drinkel

Lewis, the Dauphin

David Dixon

Ariel

Don Estelle

Starveling

John Thaw

Hubert de Burgh

Nickolas Grace

The Soldier

Joe Gladwin

Old Gobbo

Alan Rickman

Tybalt

Kenneth Haigh

Achilles

James Cossins

Lucullus

Maurice Roëves

Antonio

Robert Eddison

Justice Robert Shallow

John Grillo

Oswald

Brian Glover

Bottom

John Fortune

Poet

Eileen Atkins

Tamora

Christopher Guard

Ferdinand

Ian Barritt

French Herald

Anna Quayle

Alice

Jonathan Hyde

Rosencrantz

Anthony Hopkins

Othello

Ralph Michael

Lord Chief Justice

Diana Dors

Timandra

Susan Penhaligon

Bianca

Benjamin Whitrow

Ulysses

Jacqueline Hill

Lady Capulet

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

John Savident

Friar John

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

Patrick Ryecart

Romeo

Ann Pennington

Helen

Douglas Wilmer

The Duke of Venice

John Bailey

Sempronius

Warren Clarke

Caliban

Robert Stephens

Polixenes

Charles Keating

Duke of Aumerle

Warren Mitchell

Shylock

Phil Daniels

Puck

Leonard Rossiter

King John

Petra Markham

Katharine