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Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

6.5 191 mins 1964
Director(s): Bill Colleran John Gielgud

A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.

Casts of Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Richard Burton

as Hamlet

Hume Cronyn

as Polonius

Alfred Drake

as Claudius

Eileen Herlie

as Gertrude

William Redfield

as Guildenstern

George Rose

as First Gravedigger

George Voskovec

as Player King

Hugh Alexander

as Cornelius / Second Gravedigger / English Ambassador

Philip Coolidge

as Voltimand

Christopher Culkin

as Player Queen

John Cullum

as Laertes

Michael Ebert

as Francisco / Fortinbras

Dillon Evans

as Reynaldo / Osric / Fortinbras's Captain

Clement Fowler

as Rosencrantz

Geoff Garland

as Lucianus

John Gielgud

as Ghost (voice)

John Hetherington

as Player Prologue

Barnard Hughes

as Marcellus / Priest

Linda Marsh

as Ophelia

Robert Milli

as Horatio

Frederick Young

as Bernardo

Kate Beswick

as Lady

Alex Giannini

as Messenger

Claude Harz

as Lord

Gerome Ragni

as Attendant

Richard Sterne

as Gentleman

Carol Teitel

as Lady

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