Hamlet

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

• Laurence OlivierDirector
• Laurence OlivierScreenplay
• William WaltonOriginal Music Composer

• Laurence OlivierHamlet - Prince of Denmark / Voice of Ghost
• Basil SydneyClaudius - The King
• Eileen HerlieGertrude - The Queen
• Norman WoolandHoratio - His Friend
• Felix AylmerPolonius - Lord Chamberlain
• Jean SimmonsOphelia
• Terence MorganLaertes
• Peter CushingOsric
• Stanley HollowayGravedigger
• Russell ThorndikePriest
• John LaurieFrancisco
• Esmond KnightBernardo