Hamlet
- Released on
Drama
•- Runtime
- 153 mins
(258 votes)
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.
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.
Cast
- Laurence Olivier
- Basil Sydney
- Eileen Herlie
- Norman Wooland
- Felix Aylmer
- Jean Simmons
- Terence Morgan
- Peter Cushing
- Stanley Holloway
- Russell Thorndike
- John Laurie
- Esmond Knight
- Anthony Quayle
- Harcourt Williams
- Patrick Troughton
- Tony Tarver
- Niall MacGinnis
- Anthony Bushell
- Patricia Davidson
- Doreen Lawrence
- Christopher Lee
- Desmond Llewelyn
- Victor Lucas
- Patrick Macnee
Director
- Laurence Olivier
Producers
- Laurence Olivier
Screenwriter
- Laurence Olivier