BBC Shakespeare Collection

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (2x6)

Air date: May 25, 1980

Derek Jacobi as Hamlet Claire Bloom as Gertrude Patrick Stewart as Claudius Eric Porter as Polonius Lalla Ward as Ophelia David Robb as Laertes Patrick Allen as the Ghost of Hamlet's Father Robert Swann as Horatio Jonathan Hyde as Rosencrantz Geoffrey Bateman as Guildenstern Emrys James as Player King Jason Kemp as Player Queen Ian Charleson as Fortinbras Tim Wylton as First Gravedigger Peter Benson as Second Gravedigger Paul Humpoletz as Marcellus Niall Padden as Bernardo Christopher Baines as Francisco John Humphry as Voltimand John Sterland as Cornelius Peter Gale as Osric Raymond Mason as Reynaldo Dan Meaden as Norwegian Captain David Henry as English Ambassador