



I also have the Branagh version on DVD, but up to now never mustered the courage to watch all through four hours. insofar as she let herself be known to the public at all. Murphy was recognized as the most widely and most knowledgeably travelled Irish woman of her time. Stewart, best-known for Star Trek: The Next Generation and the X-Men films, is also a majestic Shakespearean actor (his Macbeth will be out later this year), and here he plays the new king Claudius as a sweet, catering plutocrat, deeply enamored with Hamlet’s mother Gertrude. 55 minutes Description At the time of her death in 1962, Kathleen M. Quite a force of nature, our Cumby, and I always like Ciaran Hinds, but I had some serious issues with it – why on earth would we see only the King's back and not his face showing emotions during the play within the play, for instance. One is Patrick Stewart’s double-casting as Claudius and the Ghost. I saw the 2015 Cumberbatch Hamlet via telecast in a Basel movie theatre. RM BHK793Patrick Stewart (1940-), British actor, 1979. I have the Olivier version on DVD and I was and am quite impressed by Norman Wooland who, I think, did a fine job as Horatio (and was very handsome). American actor Patrick Duffy and actress Catherine Hyland in the movie Vamping, USA 1984 Stock. A totally anglophile young Italian took me there (we met accidentally on the Spanish Steps, he thought I was British or at least American and was mighty disappointed when he found out I was not). Then I saw the Mel Gibson version in a cinema, in Rome of all places. My first Hamlet was the Jacobi version, on TV (when German channels were good and even gave us Shakespeare in English).
