The BBC Television Shakespeare(1978-1985)
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Overview
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
Seasons: 7 • Episodes: 69
Last Episode
27 Apr 1985 12:00 - 40 years ago
7x5 - Titus Andronicus
Cast
Peter Benson
King Henry VI
King Henry VI/Priest (uncredited)
5 episodes
Robert Lindsay
Iachimo
Benedick
5 episodes
Michael Hordern
King Lear
Jupiter
5 episodes
Michael Byrne
Duke of Buckingham
John Hume/Ship's Lieutenant
Antonio
Duke of Alençon
5 episodes
Charles Gray
Duke of York
Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
4 episodes
Claire Bloom
Constance
Queen
4 episodes
Trevor Peacock
Titus
Sheriff/Jack Cade
Lord Talbot
4 episodes
Jon Finch
Henry Bolingbroke
Don Pedro
4 episodes
Mark Wing-Davey
Earl of Warwick
Sir James Tyrrell/Sir James Blount (uncredited)/First Citizen (uncredited)
4 episodes
Brenda Bruce
First Witch
4 episodes
Bernard Hill
Duke of York
First Murderer/Sir William Brandon (uncredited)/Sheriff of Wiltshire (uncredited)
Master Gunner/Duke of York
4 episodes
Frank Middlemass
Fool
Bishop, later Cardinal, of Winchester
Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester
4 episodes
Ron Cook
Richard III
Richard Plantaganet/Alderman of St. Albans (uncredited)
Third Messenger to the King/Countess's Porter
4 episodes
Julia Foster
Queen Margaret
Margaret, Daughter of Reignier
4 episodes
Vernon Dobtcheff
Apothecary
Don John
3 episodes
Arthur Hewlett
3 episodes
Ian Charleson
3 episodes
Helen Mirren
Imogen
3 episodes
Norman Rodway
Earl of Gloucester
Cleon of Tarsus
3 episodes
Mike Gwilym
Berowne
Pericles
Aufidius
3 episodes
Bryan Pringle
3 episodes
Esmond Knight
Old Capulet
3 episodes
David Neal
3 episodes
Annette Crosbie
Duchess of York
Dionyza
3 episodes
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)
3 episodes
Paul Jesson
John Holland/George Plantagenet/John Southwell (uncredited)
Second Messenger to the King
George, Duke of Clarence
3 episodes
Tenniel Evans
Duke of Bedford/Mortimer, Earl of March/French General
Sir Hugh Evans
Stanley, Earl of Derby/Archbishop of York
3 episodes
Alec McCowen
2 episodes
Bruce Purchase
2 episodes
Rosemary Leach
2 episodes
Emrys James
2 episodes
Pippa Guard
2 episodes
Anna Calder-Marshall
Lavinia
2 episodes
John Barron
2 episodes
Jeremy Kemp
2 episodes
John Franklyn-Robbins
2 episodes
Jeffrey Holland
Duke of Surrey
2 episodes
John Wells
2 episodes
Hugh Quarshie
Aaron
2 episodes
Anton Lesser
Edgar
2 episodes
Geoffrey Chater
2 episodes
Anthony Quayle
2 episodes
Celia Johnson
Nurse
2 episodes
Julian Glover
2 episodes
Michele Dotrice
2 episodes
Penelope Wilton
Regan
2 episodes
John Bird
2 episodes
Nicholas Gecks
Bassianus
2 episodes
Clifford Rose
Bishop of Carlisle
Boyet
2 episodes
Wendy Hiller
Duchess of York
Aemelia
2 episodes
Clive Swift
Lord Cerimon
2 episodes
Patrick Allen
King Simonides
2 episodes
Frank Williams
Dull
Officer
2 episodes
Tim Wylton
2 episodes
Tony Steedman
2 episodes
Tim Pigott-Smith
2 episodes
Richard Pasco
2 episodes
James Bolam
Porter
2 episodes
Kevin Stoney
2 episodes
Mary Morris
Queen Elinor
2 episodes
Jane Lapotaire
Lady Macbeth
2 episodes
Brenda Blethyn
Joan La Pucelle
Cordelia
2 episodes
Valentine Dyall
Marcade
Adrian
2 episodes
Harry Waters, Jr.
2 episodes
Howard Goorney
2 episodes
John Burgess
Sicinius
Sir Nathaniel
2 episodes
Robert Brown
Earl of Pembroke
2 episodes
Derek Jacobi
King Richard II
2 episodes
John Gielgud
John of Gaunt
Chorus
2 episodes
John Nettleton
2 episodes
David Burke
Sir William Catesby
2 episodes
Elizabeth Spriggs
Mistress Quickly
2 episodes
Richard Owens
Thomas Mowbray
2 episodes
Michael Kitchen
Edmund
The Antipholi
2 episodes
Geoffrey Lumsden
Philario
2 episodes
Christopher Strauli
Claudio
Benvolio
2 episodes
Geoffrey Burridge
Guiderius
Dumain
2 episodes
Graham Crowden
Friar Francis
Caius Lucius
2 episodes
Patsy Smart
Helen
Gentlewoman
2 episodes
John Woodnutt
Panthino
Doctor
2 episodes
Derek Farr
Sir Robert Brackenbury/Earl of Surrey/Scrivener (uncredited)/Third Citizen (uncredited)/Bishop of Ely (uncredited)
Earl of Salisbury/Sir William Lucy
2 episodes
Ian Puleston-Davies
Second Company
2 episodes
Christopher Blake
Longaville
1 episode
Frank Thornton
1 episode
Kate Nelligan
1 episode
David Rintoul
1 episode
Nicky Henson
1 episode
Phyllida Law
Lady Faulconbridge
1 episode
Edward Hardwicke
Marcus
1 episode
Bob Hoskins
1 episode
Jonathan Pryce
1 episode
Frances Cuka
1 episode
Alan David
Solanio
1 episode
Colin McCormack
1 episode
Jonathan Scott-Taylor
1 episode
Oliver Cotton
1 episode
Keith Drinkel
1 episode
David Dixon
1 episode
Don Estelle
1 episode
Alan Rickman
Tybalt
1 episode
John Thaw
Hubert de Burgh
1 episode
Barbara Rhoades
1 episode
Kenneth Colley
1 episode
Nickolas Grace
1 episode
Joe Gladwin
1 episode
Kenneth Haigh
1 episode
James Cossins
1 episode
Maurice Roëves
1 episode
Robert Eddison
1 episode
John Grillo
Oswald
1 episode
Brian Glover
1 episode
John Fortune
1 episode
Eileen Atkins
Tamora
1 episode
Christopher Guard
1 episode
John Stride
1 episode
Jacqueline Hill
Lady Capulet
1 episode
Ian Barritt
French Herald
1 episode
Anna Quayle
1 episode
David Prowse
1 episode
Jonathan Hyde
1 episode
John Clegg
1 episode
Anthony Hopkins
1 episode
Ralph Michael
1 episode
Diana Dors
1 episode
Susan Penhaligon
1 episode
Benjamin Whitrow
1 episode
John Savident
Friar John
1 episode
Lynn Farleigh
1 episode
Lalla Ward
1 episode
Enn Reitel
1 episode
John Castle
Earl of Salisbury
1 episode
Thorley Walters
1 episode
Paul Brooke
1 episode
Patrick Ryecart
Romeo
1 episode
Adrienne Corri
1 episode
Patrick Stewart
1 episode
Colin Blakely
1 episode
Gavin Richards
Lucius
1 episode
Andrew Sachs
1 episode
Angus Lennie
1 episode
Timothy West
1 episode
Kenneth Cranham
1 episode
Edward Hibbert
Robert Faulconbridge
1 episode
Charles Keating
Duke of Aumerle
1 episode
John Welsh
1 episode
Sinéad Cusack
1 episode
Cyril Luckham
1 episode
Trevor Baxter
1 episode
Jonathan Cecil
1 episode
John McEnery
1 episode
Richard Easton
1 episode
Douglas Wilmer
1 episode
Jeremy Bulloch
Henry Percy
1 episode
John Bailey
1 episode
David Buck
1 episode
Warren Clarke
1 episode
Virginia McKenna
1 episode
Robert Stephens
1 episode
Angharad Rees
1 episode
Damien Thomas
Bagot
1 episode
Warren Mitchell
1 episode
Phil Daniels
1 episode
Leonard Rossiter
King John
1 episode
Petra Markham
Katharine
1 episode
Anthony Andrews
Mercutio
1 episode
Nigel Hawthorne
1 episode
Jacqueline Pearce
1 episode
John Nettles
1 episode
Margaret Tyzack
1 episode
Timothy Bateson
1 episode
John Cleese
1 episode
Jack May
1 episode
Robert Hardy
1 episode
Dominic Jephcott
1 episode
William Simons
1 episode
Laurence Naismith
Prince Escalus
1 episode
Ronnie Stevens
1 episode
Richard Morant
1 episode
Peter McEnery
1 episode
Peter Whitbread
1 episode
Charles Lloyd Pack
1 episode
Sarah Badel
1 episode
Peter Jeffrey
1 episode
Charles Kay
King Philip of France
1 episode
Joan Hickson
1 episode
Peter Vaughan
1 episode
Geoffrey Palmer
1 episode
Christopher Ettridge
1 episode
John Moulder-Brown
1 episode
Gemma Jones
1 episode
John Abineri
1 episode
Peter Salmon
1 episode
Clive Francis
1 episode
Richard Wordsworth
Cardinal Pandulph
1 episode
Barbara Kellerman
1 episode
Danny Webb
1 episode
Susan Jameson
1 episode
Eric Porter
1 episode
Robin Sachs
Busby
1 episode
Donald Sumpter
1 episode
Keith Michell
1 episode
David Robb
1 episode
John Rhys-Davies
1 episode
Andrew MacLachlan
1 episode
Ronald Pickup
1 episode
Nigel Davenport
1 episode
Estelle Kohler
1 episode
David Lloyd Meredith
1 episode
Arnold Diamond
1 episode
Jenny Laird
1 episode
Alun Armstrong
1 episode
Ellis Jones
1 episode
Victoria Plucknett
1 episode
Robert Morris
1 episode
Geoffrey Beevers
1 episode
Danny Schiller
Musician
1 episode
Rebecca Saire
Juliet
1 episode
Neil McCarthy
1 episode
Jimmy Gardner
1 episode
Felicity Kendal
1 episode
Yolande Palfrey
Juliet
1 episode
Joseph O'Conor
Friar Lawrence
1 episode
Zulema Dene
Lady Montague
1 episode
Jenny Agutter
Rosaline
1 episode
Maureen Lipman
The Princess of France
1 episode
David Warner
Don Armado
1 episode
Lee Montague
Leonato
1 episode
Katharine Levy
Hero
1 episode
Clive Dunn
Verges
1 episode
Cherie Lunghi
Beatrice
1 episode
Robert Gwilym
Conrade
1 episode
Michael Elphick
Dogberry
1 episode
John Woodvine
King Antiochus
1 episode
Edward Petherbridge
Gower
1 episode
Amanda Redman
Marina
1 episode
Juliet Stevenson
Thaisa
1 episode
Joss Ackland
Menenius
1 episode
Leon Lissek
Third Citizen
1 episode
Alan Howard
Caius Marcius
1 episode
Tessa Peake-Jones
Julia
1 episode
Tony Haygarth
Launce
1 episode
Paul Daneman
Duke of Milan
1 episode
Andrew Burt
Third Outlaw
1 episode
Cyril Cusack
Aegeon
1 episode
Roger Daltrey
The Dromios
1 episode
David Kelly
Balthazar
1 episode
Ingrid Pitt
Courtezan
1 episode
Eamon Boland
Seyton/Third Murderer
1 episode
Eileen Way
Second Witch
1 episode
Tony Doyle
Macduff
1 episode
Mark Dignam
Duncan
1 episode
Nicol Williamson
Macbeth
1 episode
Christopher Ellison
Captain
1 episode
James Hazeldine
Malcolm
1 episode
Ian Hogg
Banquo
1 episode
Jill Baker
Lady Macduff
1 episode
Nicholas Young
Lord
1 episode
Patricia Hayes
Soothsayer
1 episode
Richard Johnson
Cymbeline
1 episode
Michael Gough
Belarius
1 episode
Marius Goring
Sicilius Leonatus
1 episode
Michael Pennington
Posthumus
1 episode
Judy Davis
Mistress Ford
1 episode
Prunella Scales
Mistress Page
1 episode
Nigel Terry
Pistol
1 episode
Ben Kingsley
Frank Ford
1 episode
Michael Robbins
Nym
1 episode
Richard O'Callaghan
Slender
1 episode
Ralph Brown
John
1 episode
Bryan Marshall
George Page
1 episode
Alan Bennett
Justice Shallow
1 episode
Michael Bryant
Doctor Caius
1 episode
Richard Griffiths
Sir John Falstaff
1 episode
Simon Chandler
Fenton
1 episode
David Daker
Lord Hastings
1 episode
Zoë Wanamaker
Lady Anne
1 episode
Patsy Kensit
Lady Margaret Plantagenet
1 episode
Brian Deacon
Second Citizen/First Messenger/Earl of Richmond
1 episode
Info
Status
Ended
Original Language
English
Networks
BBC Two