Learning on ScreenHamlet at Elsinore
- Summary
- Recording of Hamlet made on location at Elsinore in Denmark as a BBC co-production with Danmarks Radio, Produced to mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth.
- Theatre play
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 19 April 1964
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC; Danmarks Radio, Denmark
Credits
- Director
- Philip Saville
- Producer
- Peter Luke
- Margaret Rubel (credited with ‘Mime’)
- Lighting
- Jørgen Møller Nielsen
- Lighting
- Robert Wright
- Composer
- Richard Rodney Bennett
- Conductor
- John Hollingsworth
- Decor
- Paul Arnt Thompsen (n.b. misspelt as ‘Thomson’ in the credits)
- Costumes
- Tone Bonnen
- Costumes
- Olive Harris
- Make-up
- Karen Ase
- Make-up
- Christine Hillcoat
- Sound
- Tage Krebs
- Videotape Editor
- Brian Jenkinson
- Fight Arranger
- William Hobbs (credited with ‘Fights’)
- Technical Manager
- Erik Høxbroe
- Technical Manager
- Hans Jensen
- Technical Manager
- O. B. Larsen
- Technical Operations Director
- Ole Dreyer
- Production Assistant
- Ole Reim
- Production Assistant
- Mary Ridge
- Secretary
- June McMullen
- Assistant to the Director
- Jens Bom
- Assistant to the Director
- Richard Martin
- Cast
Steven Berkoff Lucianus Joby Blanshard Captain Michael Caine Horatio David Calderisi Rosencrantz Charles Carson (1885-1977) Priest Alec Clunes Polonius Michael Goldie Barnardo William Hobbs Prologue Lindsay Kemp Player Queen Roy Kinnear Grave-Digger Philip Locke Osric Dyson Lovell Laertes Jo Maxwell Muller Ophelia Christopher Plummer Hamlet Peter Prowse Marcellus Robert Shaw Claudius Donald Sutherland Fortinbras David Swift Player King June Tobin Gertrude Bill Wallis Guildenstern
Additional details
- Origination
- Recorded on location
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Repeated on VVC2 at 7.25pm on Sunday 25 January 1965.
- Notes
- The cast and credits are taken from the BBC’s archive copy of the production.
- Play tags
- Denmark, as theme or setting; murder; royalty
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- Hamlet at Elsinore (BBC, 1964)
- Archive
- BBC Information and Archives [more information]
Address
White City
Telephone
London
UK+44 (0)20 8008 2288
Websitehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/
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Print sources
- Title
- Hamlet at Elsinore (BBC / Danmarks Radio, 1964), part 1 (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/hamlet-at-elsinore-bbc-danmarks-radio-1964-part-1
- Title
- Radio Times, 21 January 1965 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- short feature article on p. 13 about sales of the play after its first transmission
- Title
- Sullied Flesh? (Letter (newspaper))
- Author/creator
- T. A. Long (Author)
- Reference
- The Guardian, 23 April 1964, p. 10
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