|  Other 
                              titles: 
  William Shakespeare's Hamlet 
 
 | Production 
                              year: 1996 Language:
  England | 
                           
                            | Directed by Kenneth Branagh
 
 Writing credits (in credits order)
 William Shakespeare   (play)
 Kenneth Branagh
 
 Cast (in credits order) verified as complete
 Riz Abbasi ....  Attendant to Claudius
 Richard Attenborough ....  English Ambassador (long version)
 David Blair (V) ....  Attendant to Claudius
 Brian Blessed ....  Ghost
 Kenneth Branagh ....  Hamlet
 Richard Briers ....  Polonius
 Michael Bryant (I) ....  Priest
 Peter Bygott ....  Attendant to Claudius
 Julie Christie ....  Gertrude
 Billy Crystal ....  First Gravedigger
 Charles Daish ....  Stage Manager
 Judi Dench ....  Hecuba (long version)
 Gérard Depardieu ....  Reynaldo (long version)
 Reece Dinsdale ....  Guildenstern
 Ken Dodd ....  Yorick
 Angela Douglas ....  Attendant to Gertrude
 Rob Edwards (I) ....  Lucianus
 Nicholas Farrell ....  Horatio
 Ray Fearon ....  Francisco
 Yvonne Gidden ....  Doctor
 John Gielgud ....  Priam (long version)
 Rosemary Harris ....  Player Queen
 Charlton Heston ....  Player King
 Ravil Issyanov ....  Cornelius (as Ravil Isyanov)
 Derek Jacobi ....  Claudius
 Rowena King ....  Attendant to Gertrude
 Jeffery Kissoon ....  Fortinbras's Captain
 Sarah Lam ....  Attendant to Gertrude
 Jack Lemmon ....  Marcellus
 Ian McElhinney ....  Barnardo
 Michael Maloney (I) ....  Laertes
 Duke of Marlborough ....  Fortinbras's General
 John Mills (I) ....  Old Norway
 Jimi Mistry ....  Sailor Two
 Sian Radinger ....  Prologue
 Melanie Ramsey ....  Prostitute
 Simon Russell Beale ....  Second Gravedigger
 Andrew Schofield (I) ....  Young Lord
 Rufus Sewell ....  Fortinbras
 Timothy Spall ....  Rosencrantz
 Tom Szekeres ....  Young Hamlet
 Ben Thom ....  First Player
 Don Warrington ....  Voltimand
 Perdita Weeks ....  Second Player
 Robin Williams ....  Osric
 Kate Winslet ....  Ophelia
 David Yip ....  Sailor One
 rest of cast listed alphabetically
 Christopher Bowles ....  Cadet in Play Scene (uncredited)
 Jimmy Ellis (I) ....  Old Fortinbras (uncredited)
 Frank Morgan (II) ....  Pyrrhus (uncredited)
 Orlando Seale ....  Boatman (uncredited)
 Jimmy Yuill ....  Alexander (uncredited)
 
 Produced by
 David Barron (I) ....  producer
 
 Original music by
 Patrick Doyle (I)
 
 Cinematography by
 Alex Thomson
 
 Film Editing by
 Neil Farrell (I)
 
 Casting by
 Simone Ireland
 Vanessa Pereira
 
 Production Design by
 Tim Harvey (I)
 
 Art Direction by
 Desmond Crowe
 
 Costume Design by
 Alexandra Byrne
 
 Makeup Department
 Peter Montagna ....  makeup artist
 
 Production Management
 Iona Price ....  production manager
 
 Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
 David Carrigan ....  first assistant director: vfx unit
 Sara Desmond ....  third assistant director
 Sallie Anne Hard ....  second assistant director (as Sallie-Ann Hard)
 Simon Moseley ....  first assistant director
 Richard Styles (I) ....  second assistant director
 
 Art Department
 Don Dossett ....  assistant art director
 Danny Hunter ....  property master
 Richard Lyon (II) ....  construction buyer
 Michael Redding (I) ....  construction coordinator
 
 Sound Department
 Peter Glossop (II) ....  production sound mixer
 Tim Hands (I) ....  adr editor
 Dominic Lester ....  sound re-recording mixer
 Gerard McCann ....  music editor
 Robin O'Donoghue ....  sound re-recording mixer
 Peter Pennell ....  supervising sound editor
 Roy Prendergast ....  supervising music editor
 
 Special Effects by
 Michael Dawson (I) ....  special effects administrator
 Manex Efrem ....  special effects technician
 Joss Williams ....  special effects supervisor
 
 Visual Effects by
 Adrian De Wet ....  scanning operator
 Tom Debenham ....  visual effects designer
 Dan Glass ....  visual effects designer
 Pete Hanson ....  studio manager: The Computer Film Company
 Alison O'Brien (I) ....  visual effects producer
 Joe Pavlo ....  scanning operator
 Nigel Stone (I) ....  director of photography: model unit
 
 Stunts
 Simon Crane ....  stunt co-ordinator
 Tom Delmar (II) ....  stunt double: Old Hamlet
 stunts
 Sean McCabe ....  assistant stunt co-ordinator
 stunt double: Hamlet
 Peter Pedrero ....  utility stunts (uncredited)
 Andreas Petrides ....  stunt double - Leartes
 
 Other crew
 Lawrence Ashmore ....  orchestrator
 Jens Baylis ....  assistant editor
 John Bell (II) ....  orchestrator (uncredited)
 Robert Binnall ....  first assistant camera
 Plácido Domingo ....  singer: theme song "In Pace"
 Patrick Doyle (I) ....  music producer
 Daniel Farrell ....  associate editor
 Dan Grace ....  dresser to Mr. Branagh
 Lil Heyman ....  production coordinator
 Martin Kenzie ....  camera operator
 Rolf Konow ....  still photographer
 Sharon Long ....  costume supervisor
 Ossa Mills ....  rigging gaffer
 Nic Milner ....  camera operator
 Dave Moroni ....  gaffer
 Kevin Phelan ....  producer: The Computer Film Company
 Nick Powell (I) ....  fight arranger
 sword master
 Maggie Rodford ....  music producer
 Cathy Shaw ....  assistant producer: The Computer Film Company
 Rebecca Erwin Spencer ....  assistant to Mr. Williams
 Phil Stoole ....  production assistant
 Chyna Thomson ....  first assistant camera: "a" camera
 Melanie Viner-Cuneo ....  assistant editor
 Annie Wotton ....  script supervisor
 Robert Ziegler ....  conductor
 
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                            |  *ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 
                           
                            
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